Congratulations and welcome to Jacob Thorstensen of Bond University, who joins us as one of our 2024 Editorial Board Fellows!

The final experimental chapter of my PhD is now published in Journal of Physiology. Special thanks to coauthors Greg Pearcey Alessandro Del Vecchio Sean Horan and Justin Kavanagh. An awesome result to round out the thesis, which has been submitted for examination 🎉

New motor unit data from our lab! Amazing work by Benjamin Goodlich who evaluated self-sustained firing in humans. Congratulations! Greg Pearcey Alessandro Del Vecchio Journal of Physiology physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

👀 Check out Experimental Physiology latest #EPicks with Daniel J. McKeown of Griffith University discusses their latest research on The severity of acute hypoxaemia determines distinct changes in intracortical and spinal neural circuits: buff.ly/49jxroU 📽️ buff.ly/3SXrfgv

In this research, Emily Joy Brotherton et al. use #TranscranialMagneticStimulation to demonstrate that people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) have a reduced ability to activate muscles following maximal effort-fatiguing contractions.
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Surendran Sabapathy

Well done Tyler Henderson ! Very challenging study to provide further insight to motoneurone activation. Tricky CMEP measurements and a drug intervention on top. Congratulations! Jacob Thorstensen European Journal of Neuroscience

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Today we had the honor to host the President of Germany in our lab. We demonstrated how Matthias, our SCI hero suffering from motor complete hand paralysis, can move again the hand with a new orthosis that is driven by spared motor unit activity. #GraspAgainIsAClinicalReality

A slightly different approach to study monoaminergic effects on motor pathways. We looked for common findings in pharmacology studies that use TMS and nerve stimulation. The motor cortex is complex. Jacob Thorstensen Tyler Henderson
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Very, very, happy to have this Multiple Sclerosis study published. Amazing effort by Emily Joy Brotherton to profile voluntary muscle activation in people with MS after performing fatiguing contractions JNP MS Australia

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🎓EDITOR'S PICK🎓
This article from Daniel McKeown, Glenn M. Stewart and Justin Kavanagh
(@MenziesHealth) explores the effects of continuous low oxygen and its effects on motor circuits!
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Researchers from Griffith University are looking to recruit adults who have relapsing-remitting #multiplesclerosis to explore the relationship between exercise and fatigue components in #MS .

Find out more & take part 👉 bit.ly/44RXznE

#MS research

Nice work by Daniel McKeown. Our new study demonstrates that inducing hypoxaemia by regulating FiO2 causes different responses in motor cortical circuits compared to regulating SpO2. Experimental Physiology

📚We hope this topical review will inspire new studies on motor neurone persistent inward currents in ageing and exercise. 🧑‍🦳💪🧠 So many intriguing questions remain to be answered!
Gabriel Trajano Anthony Blazevich Deakin IPAN Journal of Physiology
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Great work Benjamin Goodlich and Alessandro Del Vecchio !! We report important reliability data for motor unit tracking using blind source separation filters and waveform cross-correlations. Be careful with your higher contraction intensities. Journal of Applied Physiology

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Nice TMS study by Lisa Dempsey ! Building more evidence that muscarinic acetylcholine receptors may not play a big role in motor evoked potential generation during voluntary contractions. Experimental Brain Research rdcu.be/daU0W

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal

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This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

Fantastic study!