Human brain activation during sustained and intermittent submaximal fatigue muscle contractions: an FMRI study

JZ Liu, ZY Shan, LD Zhang, V Sahgal… - Journal of …, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
During prolonged submaximal muscle contractions, electromyographic (EMG) signals
typically increase as a result of increasing motor unit activities to compensate for fatigue …

Multivariate Granger causality analysis of fMRI data

G Deshpande, S LaConte, GA James… - Human brain …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes the combination of multivariate Granger causality analysis, temporal
down‐sampling of fMRI time series, and graph theoretic concepts for investigating causal …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamical model of muscle activation, fatigue, and recovery

JZ Liu, RW Brown, GH Yue - Biophysical journal, 2002 - cell.com
A dynamical model is presented as a framework for muscle activation, fatigue, and recovery.
By describing the effects of muscle fatigue and recovery in terms of two phenomenological …

Portable EMG data acquisition module for upper limb prosthesis application

S Pancholi, AM Joshi - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electromyography (EMG) signals are gaining popularity to develop the prosthetics. In this
paper, an efficient multi-channel EMG signal acquisition system has been proposed for …

Nonlinear cortical modulation of muscle fatigue: a functional MRI study

JZ Liu, TH Dai, V Sahgal, RW Brown, GH Yue - Brain research, 2002 - Elsevier
Muscle fatigue has been studied for over a century, but almost no data are available to
indicate how the brain perceives fatigue and modulates its signals to the fatiguing muscle. In …

Ranking and averaging independent component analysis by reproducibility (RAICAR)

Z Yang, S LaConte, X Weng, X Hu - Human brain map**, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Independent component analysis (ICA) is a data‐driven approach that has exhibited great
utility for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Standard ICA implementations …

Effects of surface EMG rectification on power and coherence analyses: an EEG and MEG study

B Yao, S Salenius, GH Yue, RW Brown… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2007 - Elsevier
Coherence between electromyography (EMG) and electroencephalography (EEG) or
magnetoencephalography (MEG) is frequently examined to gain insights on neuromuscular …

Shifting of activation center in the brain during muscle fatigue: an explanation of minimal central fatigue?

JZ Liu, B Lewandowski, C Karakasis, B Yao… - Neuroimage, 2007 - Elsevier
Accumulating evidence suggests that the overall level of cortical activation controlling a
voluntary motor task that leads to significant muscle fatigue does not decrease as much as …

Linear correlation between fractal dimension of EEG signal and handgrip force

JZ Liu, Q Yang, B Yao, RW Brown, GH Yue - biological Cybernetics, 2005 - Springer
Fractal dimension (FD) has been proved useful in quantifying the complexity of dynamical
signals in biology and medicine. In this study, we measured FDs of human …

Fatigue induces greater brain signal reduction during sustained than preparation phase of maximal voluntary contraction

JZ Liu, B Yao, V Siemionow, V Sahgal, X Wang, J Sun… - Brain research, 2005 - Elsevier
Animal studies have shown that there are cell populations only discharging phasically
before a motor task and others only active tonically during holding phase of the task. How …