Altered Musculoskeletal Sensory Input and Neuromechanics
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 121
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sensorimotor integration; neural adaptation and learning; neurophysiology of musculoskeletal treatments; chronic pain processing; neural effects of exercise
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue explores how altered musculoskeletal input impacts neuromechanics and sensorimotor integration. Chronic changes in sensory input may be from musculoskeletal pain or other chronic conditions that change sensory input. Acute changes in sensory input can be induced in laboratory settings via ischemia, fatigue, vibration, experimental pain, etc. Of particular interest is the interaction between these altered sensory inputs and the motor system, as well as how both acute and chronic alterations in neck and trunk inputs impact limb sensorimotor control. Examples of relevant quantitative outcome measures are electroencephalography (EEG), evoked potentials, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), MRI and/or fMRI, electromyography (EMG), and kinematic measures of movement speed and trajectory. Research that alters sensory feedback more centrally using repetitive TMS is also welcome, as is work where different forms of sensory feedback are used as a therapeutic intervention.
We are encouraging you to submit original papers, review articles, case reports and case series, pilot studies, and randomized controlled clinical trials.
Prof. Dr. Bernadette Murphy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- musculoskeletal disorder
- sensorimotor integration
- motor
- sensory
- neuromechanics
