The electroencephalographic (EEG) activity patterns in humans during motor behaviour provide insight into normal motor control processes and for diagnostic and rehabilitation applications. While the patterns preceding brisk voluntary movements, and especially movement execution, are well described, there are few EEG studies that address the cortical activation patterns seen in isometric exertio...

Abstract Processing of threat-related emotional body language (EBL) has been shown to engage sensorimotor cortical areas very early and induce freezing in the observers’ motor system, particularly when observing fearful EBL. We hypothesized that sensory vigilance induced by aversive contents may be mechanism which processing EBL enhance inhibition. To test this hypothesis, we used high-density ...

Man Machine Interfaces (MMIs) are getting more and more beneficial and applicable to many different fields to support men in both scientific and everyday life. Their usage is however still limited and they need to be further developed and improved to become really efficient. A potentially efficacious approach is movement prediction. It could improve different MMIs systems by providing an interf...

Background: Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCI) represent a promising component of restorative motor therapies in individuals with partial paralysis. However, in those patients, sensory functions such as proprioception are at least partly preserved. The aim of this study was to investigate whether afferent feedback interferes with the BCI-based detection of efferent...

BACKGROUND Non-replicating respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidates could potentially prime for enhanced respiratory disease (ERD) due to a T-cell-mediated immunopathology, following RSV infection. Vaccines with built-in immune response modifiers, such as Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands, may avoid such aberrant imprinting of the immune system. METHODS We developed reconstituted R...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are thought to result in part from altered cortical excitatory-inhibitory balance; this pathophysiology may impact the generation of oscillations on electroencephalogram (EEG). We investigated premotor-parietal cortical physiology associated with praxis, which has strong theoretical and empirical associations with ASD symptomatology. Twenty five children with hig...

OBJECTIVE To compare neurological and functional outcomes between two groups of hospitalised patients with subacute tetraplegia. APPROACH Seven patients received 20 sessions of brain computer interface (BCI) controlled functional electrical stimulation (FES) while five patients received the same number of sessions of passive FES for both hands. The neurological assessment measures were event ...

The brain-computer interface (BCI) work is to provide humans an alternative channel that allows direct transmission of messages from the brain by analyzing the brain’s mental activities [1–7]. The brain activity is recorded by means of multi-electrode electroencephalographic (EEG) signals that are either invasive or noninvasive. Noninvasive recording is convenient and popular in BCI application...