* Correspondence to: Dick F. Stegeman, 920 Department of Neurology / Clinical Neurophysiology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Medical Centre Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands, e-mail: [email protected] Received 20 March 2012; accepted 24 April 2012 High-density Surface EMG: Techniques and Applications at a Motor ...

Resting squid nerve membrane actively extrudes Na+ against a large concentration gradient, while another cation, K + , is concentrated passively within the cell by the Donnan equilibrium. During the passage of an impulse, large transient current flows across the membrane; some K + leaves, some Na + enters, but which ions carry the current at which instant, and how it is turned on and off cannot...

Flavio Villani *, Veronica Pelliccia , Giuseppe Didato , Giovanni Tringali , Francesco Deleo , Rita Garbelli , Laura Rossini , Roberto Spreafico a Division of Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology, ‘‘Carlo Besta’’ Neurological Institute Foundation, Milan, Italy b Epilepsy Surgery Center ‘‘C. Munari’’, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy Division of Neurosurgery III, ‘‘Carlo Besta’’...

Rita Garbelli *, Roberto Spreafico , Andrea Barbaglia , Laura Rossini , Gloria Milesi , Ileana Zucca , Massimo Cossu , Manuela Bramerio , Laura Tassi c Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy b Scientific Department, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy c ‘‘C Munari’’, Epilepsy Surgery Ce...

The Hoffmann reflex (H-reflex) is extensively used as both a research and clinical tool. The ease with which this reflex can be elicited in several muscles throughout the body makes it an attractive tool. This review discusses some of the important limitations in using the H-reflex. In particular, the inaccurate but widely held assumptions that the H-reflex (1). represents the monosynaptic refl...

science-based or scientific interpretation of koran, that is, the accordance of koran to empirical sciences is of greater attraction for educated people specially the youth. for the man’s brilliant developments to achieve new horizons in sciences and discover the unknown in the past centuries, not only dominated him on nature more, but also had a deep effect on a muslim’s viewpoint of the world...

Introduction: To obtain a baseline for clinical application of Electroencephalography in children and to evaluate the Electroencephalography findings in children with various acute and chronic CNS disorders and non epileptic events.Methods: electroencephalography Electroencephalography records of 250 patients were studied in neurophysiology departments of Queen Rania AL-Abdullah Hospital for ch...

Background: Segmental zoster paresis (SZP) is a very uncommon complication characterized by localized weakening of the upper or lower limbs. Case report: A 69-year-old man came with complaints weakness in right leg two months ago. He had his after days having herpes on leg. There was paresthesia and hypesthesia neurological examination according to L1-L3 dermatome. Neurophysiology revealed neur...