neuroscience Archives - Motor Impairment

Interview: Associate Professor Janet Taylor talks about fatigue after exercise

This entry was posted in Interview Motor Impairment Blog Strength & weakness and tagged brain exercise fatigue motor impairment muscle neuroscience on November 24, 2016 by Bart Bolsterlee

Associate Professor Janet Taylor studies the mechanisms that cause people to feel fatigued after exercise. In this video she discusses the different components of fatigue and the clinical relevance of understanding these mechanisms.

Interview: Dr Martin Héroux talks about reproducibility of transcranial magnetic stimulation

This entry was posted in Interview Motor Impairment Blog Research methods and tagged brain function neuroscience reproducibility TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation on September 8, 2016 by Bart Bolsterlee

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a popular method among neuroscientists to study brain function, because it enables selective activation of certain areas of the brain with a magnetic coil. However, results from TMS studies published in the scientific literature can often not be reproduced. NeuRA’s Dr Martin Héroux talks about findings […]