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Muscle Stimulation Frequency

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The contraction strength of muscles is regulated by motor neurons, which modulate the frequency of action potentials dispatched to the motor units based on the body's requirements. This process of varying the muscle stimulation frequency allows muscles to contract with a force that is precisely tailored to the needs of the moment, whether lifting a feather or a heavy box.
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Generation of Local CA1 γ Oscillations by Tetanic Stimulation

Generation of Local CA1 γ Oscillations by Tetanic Stimulation

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Rhythmic gamma stimulation affects bistable perception.

Yuranny Cabral-Calderin^1,2, Carsten Schmidt-Samoa¹, Melanie Wilke^1,2,3

¹1University of Goettingen.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

|January 21, 2015

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Gamma oscillations, not alpha, causally influence perceptual switching in ambiguous visual stimuli. Gamma band stimulation increased spontaneous perceptual reversals, suggesting a key role in resolving visual ambiguity.

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