ArticlePhysiological reports2018
Increased central common drive to ankle plantar flexor and dorsiflexor muscles during visually guided gait.
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- Electrophysiological Approaches to Understanding Brain-Muscle Interactions During Gait: A Systematic Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Modulation of individual and synchronized activities of ankle plantarflexors during quiet standing in aroused emotions.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Alpha and beta/low-gamma frequency bands may have distinct neural origin and function during post-stroke walking.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
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- Dynamics of cortical and corticomuscular connectivity during planning and execution of visually guided steps in humans.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- Different modulation of oscillatory common neural drives to ankle muscles during abrupt and gradual gait adaptations.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Visuomotor errors drive step length and step time adaptation during 'virtual' split-belt walking: the effects of reinforcement feedback.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Corticospinal drive is associated with temporal walking adaptation in both healthy young and older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Intramuscular coherence during challenging walking in incomplete spinal cord injury: Reduced high-frequency coherence reflects impaired supra-spinal control.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Time-series changes in intramuscular coherence associated with split-belt treadmill adaptation in humans.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Intermuscular coherence analysis in older adults reveals that gait-related arm swing drives lower limb muscles via subcortical and cortical pathways.The Journal of physiology · 2021Article
- Age-specific modulation of intermuscular beta coherence during gait before and after experimentally induced fatigue.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Corticospinal Control of Human Locomotion as a New Determinant of Age-Related Sarcopenia: An Exploratory Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- A pilot study assessing reliability and age-related differences in corticomuscular and intramuscular coherence in ankle dorsiflexors during walking.Physiological reports · 2020Article
- Brain Network Oscillations During Gait in Parkinson's Disease.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Review
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Abstract
When we walk in a challenging environment, we use visual information to modify our gait and place our feet carefully on the ground. Here, we explored how central common drive to ankle muscles changes in relation to visually guided foot placement. Sixteen healthy adults aged 23 ± 5 years participated in the study. Electromyography (EMG) from the Soleus (Sol), medial Gastrocnemius (MG), and the distal and proximal ends of the Tibialis anterior (TA) muscles and electroencephalography (EEG) from Cz were recorded while subjects walked on a motorized treadmill. A visually guided walking task, where subjects received visual feedback of their foot placement on a screen in real-time and were required to place their feet within narrow preset target areas, was compared to normal walking. There was a significant increase in the central common drive estimated by TA-TA and Sol-MG EMG-EMG coherence in beta and gamma frequencies during the visually guided walking compared to normal walking. EEG-TA EMG coherence also increased, but the group average did not reach statistical significance. The results indicate that the corticospinal tract is involved in modifying gait when visually guided placement of the foot is required. These findings are important for our basic understanding of the central control of human bipedal gait and for the design of rehabilitation interventions for gait function following central motor lesions.
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