Professor Meehan, current MSc student Kylee Graham and former MSc student Kara Hayes published a new manuscript outlining best practices to using short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI) to investigate how the brain integrates sensory information into the motor commands that are sent to the muscles. This process is known as sensorimotor integration.
The manuscript outlines how to use controllable pulse parameter transcranial magnetic stimulation (cTMS) as part of the SAI technique. cTMS is a new advance in non-invasive brain stimulation that allows Sensorimotor Control and Learning Lab (SCiLL) members to determine the specific role that different groups of brain cells in motor cortex play in shaping our movements.
Professor Meehan and the SCiLL team are using this advanced technique to understand how sensorimotor integration works in healthy populations as well as those with acquired brain injuries like concussions and stroke.
The paper “Combined Peripheral Nerve Stimulation and Controllable Pulse Parameter Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Probe Sensorimotor Control and Learning” was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Visualized Experiments.
The manuscript is accompanied by a video demonstrating the procedures outlined in the manuscript.