Motor Unit

Website: http://www.bu.edu/nmrc/labs/mul/

Principal Investigator: Carlo De Luca

Research in this lab investigates how the brain and spinal cord control the activation of muscle cells to produce muscle force.

• The Precision Decomposition Technique, which has received international recognition, was developed here. It is used to identify all electrical action potentials of several concurrently active muscle fibers from the complex myoelectric signal detected during a muscle contraction.
• Knowledge gained through research in this lab is expected to be transferred into the clinical environment to improve the ability of the neurologist to categorize and quantify neurological dysfunction