Dr.
Francesco
Negro,
Associate
Professor,
University
of
Brescia
Title:
The high-density Electromyography (EMG) technology and its applications in rehabilitation research
Abstract:
The seminar will describe the high-density EMG technology, its application for the estimation of the neural drive to muscle, and its role in rehabilitation research. It will provide a detailed description of the analysis of high-density EMG recordings, motor unit decomposition, tracking of motor unit activity in the same and different experimental sessions, and extraction of reliable neural information. Moreover, it will show recent applications of this technology in several studies.
Bio:
Dr.
Francesco
Negro
received
the
M.Sc.
degree
in
Telecommunication
Engineering
from
the
Politecnico
di
Torino,
Torino,
Italy,
in
November
2005,
and
the
Ph.D.
degree
in
Biomedical
Engineering
from
Aalborg
University,
Aalborg,
Denmark,
in
April
2011.
From
2006
to
2010,
he
was
a
Research
Assistant
and
Ph.D.
Fellow
at
Aalborg
University.
From
2011
to
2016,
he
was
a
Postdoctoral
Researcher
at
the
Institute
of
Neurorehabilitation
Systems,
University
Medical
Center
Göttingen,
Georg-August
University,
Germany,
within
the
Bernstein
Focus
Neurotechnology
and
Bernstein
Center
for
Computational
Neuroscience.
From
2016
to
2018,
he
has
been
a
Marie
Curie
Individual
Fellow
on
the
project
NeuralCon
at
the
Department
of
Clinical
and
Experimental
Sciences,
University
of
Brescia,
Brescia.
From
2018,
he
is
an
Assistant
Professor
in
the
University
of
Brescia.
His
research
interests
include
applied
physiology
of
the
human
motor
system,
signal
processing
of
intramuscular
and
surface
electromyography
and
modeling
of
spinal
neural
networks.
Keywords: EMG Technology, rehabilitation research
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