Alan J. Mccomas

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Alan J. Mccomas

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The double crush in nerve entrapment syndromes. (1973) (860)
Physiological changes in ageing muscles (1973) (709)
Electrophysiological estimation of the number of motor units within a human muscle (1971) (639)
Extent of motor unit activation during effort. (1981) (610)
Contractile changes in opposing muscles of the human ankle joint with aging. (1986) (580)
Skeletal Muscle: Form and Function (1996) (384)
Influence of joint position on ankle plantarflexion in humans. (1982) (338)
Twitch potentiation after voluntary contraction (1983) (318)
Potentiation of `late' responses evoked in muscles during effort (1971) (272)
Influence of joint position on ankle dorsiflexion in humans. (1981) (262)
Functional changes in motoneurones of hemiparetic patients (1973) (244)
A stereotaxic atlas of the developing rat brain (1972) (202)
Cutaneous reflexes in small muscles of the hand (1973) (192)
Functional compensation in partially denervated muscles (1971) (180)
"Sick" motoneurones. A unifying concept of muscle disease. (1971) (167)
Effect of strength training upon motoneuron excitability in man. (1983) (154)
Influence of human muscle length on fatigue. (1985) (149)
Muscular Dystrophy: Evidence for a Neural Factor (1970) (141)
Neuromuscular adaptation in human thenar muscles following strength training and immobilization. (1982) (138)
M wave potentiation during and after muscle activity. (1989) (137)
The effects of strength training in patients with selected neuromuscular disorders. (1988) (132)
Functional and structural adaptations in skeletal muscle of trained athletes. (1988) (129)
Fast and slow twitch units in a human muscle (1971) (123)
Electrical signs of nervous activity (1971) (116)
Motor unit estimations in small muscles of the hand (1974) (116)
Human muscle power (1986) (113)
Motor unit estimation: Anxieties and achievements (1995) (111)
Electrophysiological study of dystrophia myotonica (1970) (110)
Developmental apraxia arising from neonatal brachial plexus palsy (2000) (109)
The numbers and relative sizes of motor units estimated by Computer (1991) (102)
Human neuromuscular adaptations that accompany changes in activity. (1994) (101)
Denervated muscle fibres in hereditary mouse dystrophy. (1967) (96)
Analysis of evoked lumbosacral potentials in man. (1978) (95)
An electrophysiological study of Duchenne dystrophy (1971) (95)
Operation Everest II: neuromuscular performance under conditions of extreme simulated altitude. (1990) (89)
A comparison of the contractile properties of the human gastrocnemius and soleus muscles (2004) (87)
Neuromuscular Function and Disorders (1979) (85)
Neurobiology of muscle fatigue. Advances and issues. (1995) (85)
Control of soleus motoneuron excitability during muscle stretch in man. (1982) (83)
The physiology of single human nerve fibres (1972) (79)
An electrophysiological investigation of limb-girdle and facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (1971) (69)
Oro-facial muscles: internal structure, function and ageing. (1998) (67)
Motor unit populations in healthy and diseased muscles. (1993) (66)
Prolongation of twitch potentiating mechanism throughout muscle fatigue and recovery (1989) (65)
Invited review: Motor unit estimation: Methods, results, and present status (1991) (64)
Pseudofacilitation: A misleading term (1994) (62)
Responses of the rat dorsal column system to mechanical stimulation of the hind paw (1963) (61)
Fast and slow twitch muscles in man. (1968) (58)
Motoneurone disease and ageing. (1973) (58)
Fatigue brought on by malfunction of the central and peripheral nervous systems. (1995) (57)
Development of rat muscle during short- and long-term hindlimb suspension. (1987) (57)
Relationship between numbers and frequencies of stimuli in human muscle fatigue. (1988) (52)
The electrical properties of muscle fiber membranes in dystrophia myotonica and myotonia congenita. (1968) (50)
The extent and time course of motoneuron involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1991) (48)
Muscular dystrophy: myopathy or neuropathy? (1970) (48)
Depletion and sizes of motor units in spinal muscular atrophy (2001) (46)
Neuromuscular function in weight-trainers (1983) (46)
Depression of human electromyographic activity by fatigue of a synergistic muscle (1997) (45)
An investigation of pyramidal tract cells in the somatosensory cortex of the rat (1968) (44)
Motoneurone dysfunction in patients with hemiplegic atrophy. (1971) (37)
A stereotaxic atlas of the brain of the Cebus monkey (1970) (36)
Multiple muscle analysis of motor units in muscular dystrophy. (1974) (36)
The Neurapraxic Lesion: A Clinical Contribution to the Study of Trophic Mechanisms (1974) (35)
Effects of age, temperature, and disease on the refractoriness of human nerve and muscle. (1978) (34)
THE MUSCLE FIBRE (1977) (34)
The nature of the electrophysiological disorder in adynamia episodica. (1968) (34)
Structure and function of inhibitory neuronal mechanisms (1970) (30)
Contrasting effects of suspension on hind limb muscles in the hamster (1984) (30)
A method for detcting functional weakness (1983) (29)
The absence of dystrophic characteristics in normal muscles successfully cross-reinnervated by nerves of dystrophic genotype: Physiological and cytochemical study of crossed solei of normal and dystrophic parabiotic mice (1976) (29)
Muscle strength in boys of different ages (1973) (29)
Functional denervation in the soleus muscle of dystrophic mice (1976) (28)
Refractory period studies in a human neuromuscular preparation. (1978) (28)
Incidence, severity, and time-course of motoneurone dysfunction in myotonic dystrophy: their significance for an understanding of anticipation. (1978) (27)
Motor Unit Counting and the Caffeine Contracture Test in Malignant Hyperthermia (1977) (26)
Denervation and reinnervation in congenital brachial palsy (1999) (26)
Infantile centronuclear myopathy Evidence suggesting incomplete innervation (1983) (24)
A method for detecting functional weakness. (1983) (24)
Inhibitory pathways in the central nervous system (1970) (23)
Longitudinal structure and innervation of two mammalian hindlimb muscles (1988) (23)
Neuropathy in thyrotoxicosis. (1973) (22)
Impaired potentiation of H-reflexes in patients with upper motoneurone lesions (1971) (22)
Evidence for reversible motoneurone dysfunction in thyrotoxicosis (1974) (22)
Transient hyperpolarization of non‐contracting muscle fibres in anaesthetized rats. (1992) (21)
A study of the muscle twitch in the Duchenne type muscular dystrophy. (1968) (21)
Electrical properties of muscle fibre membranes in man. (1968) (21)
Impulse conduction velocities in human biceps brachii muscles (1983) (20)
Motor‐Unit Estimation: The Beginning (1995) (20)
Red-cell stability in Duchenne's syndrome. (1978) (20)
Long-term effects of partial limb amputation in man. (1978) (20)
The Neuromuscular System (2003) (19)
Non-conscious choice in cutaneous backward masking. (1996) (19)
Myasthenia gravis: evidence for a "central" defect. (1971) (19)
Contractile properties of muscles in myotonic dystrophy. (1983) (18)
Myotonic muscular dystrophy (1979) (17)
Evaluation of therapeutic electrical stimulation to improve muscle strength and function in children with types II/III spinal muscular atrophy (2002) (17)
Multiple innervation of human muscle fibers (1984) (17)
Depth-electrographic stimulation of the human brain and behaviour (1970) (16)
Further motor unit studies in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. (1977) (15)
Excitability of muscle fibre membranes in dystrophic mice. (1966) (15)
A comparison of contractile properties in human arm and leg muscles (2004) (15)
Numbers and Sizes of Human Motor Units in Health and Disease (1973) (14)
Properties of somatosensory neurones in the human thalamus. (1970) (13)
Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse (2011) (11)
Neural hypothesis of muscular dystrophy is flourishing (1974) (10)
Hypothesis: Hughlings Jackson and presynaptic inhibition: is there a big picture? (2016) (10)
Muscle shortening, response latency, and conduction velocity (1996) (10)
Neuropathy in McArdle's syndrome. (1973) (10)
The RULER model. Is this how the somatosensory cortex works? (1999) (10)
Alterations in erythrocyte membrane material properties: a marker of the membrane abnormality in human and chicken muscular dystrophy. (1978) (10)
First and last experiments in muscle mechanics (1971) (10)
Excitability of human motoneurones during effort. (1970) (9)
Effect of selective and nonselective beta-blockade on skeletal muscle excitability and fatiguability. (1994) (9)
Abnormal M‐wave responses during exercise in myotonic muscular dystrophy: A Na+‐K+ pump defect? (1991) (9)
USE AND DISUSE (1977) (9)
Some properties of pyramidal tract cells in the rat somatosensory cortex. (1967) (8)
Electrophysiologic features of muscle regeneration (1981) (8)
Speculations surrounding a spinal reflex (2006) (8)
The scientific contributions of Brenda Bigland-Ritchie. (1995) (8)
Tendon Reflexes Elicited using a Computer Controlled Linear Motor Tendon Hammer (2006) (7)
Patterns of Motoneuron Dysfunction and Recovery (1975) (7)
Neuromuscular function in limb girdle dystrophy. (1985) (7)
Physiologic and histologic features of muscle development in the hamster (1984) (7)
Physiological changes in ageing muscles ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS (7)
Evaluation of therapeutic electrical stimulation to improve muscle strength and function in children with types II/III spinal muscular atrophy. (2002) (6)
Neural and neuromuscular aspects of muscle fatigue: An introduction (1996) (6)
Comprar Galvani's Spark The Story of the Nerve Impulse | Alan McComas | 9780199751754 | Oxford University Press (2011) (6)
The sick motoneurone hypothesis of muscular dystrophy (1988) (6)
Neurogenic Origin of Talipes Equinovarus (1994) (6)
Absence of fibrillation after muscle injury (1983) (5)
Release of neural transmitter substances (1970) (5)
Effects of impulse blockade on the contractile properties of rat skeletal muscle. (1987) (5)
Physiological Estimates of the Numbers and Sizes of Motor Units in Man (1973) (5)
RESTING AND ACTION POTENTIALS (1977) (5)
Touch dome properties as a function of age (1984) (4)
Cutaneous reflexes insmall muscles ofthehand (1973) (4)
3-09-06 Cognitive function and congenital brachial palsy (1997) (4)
Cortical spreading depression in migraine-time to reconsider? (2015) (4)
properties of somatosensory cells in the human thalamus. (1971) (4)
Soleus motoneurone excitability in man: an indirect approach for obtaining quantitative data. (1979) (4)
TRANS-SYNAPTIC MOTONEURONE DEGENERATION (1977) (4)
Loss of twitch torque following muscle compression (1997) (4)
Properties of motor units in normal and partly denervated human muscles. (1971) (4)
An electrophysiological study of dystrophia myotonica. (1970) (4)
Therapeutic transcranial magnetic stimulation in migraine and its implications for a neuroinflammatory hypothesis (2009) (3)
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY AND OTHER INHERITED DISEASES OF SKELETAL MUSCLE IN ANIMALS Edited by J.B. Harris. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 317, 716p. 1979 U.S. $80.00. (1979) (3)
Distal dysfunction and recovery in ulnar neuropathy (1996) (3)
Single Motor Unit Twitches in Man (1973) (3)
Chapter 6 – MOTOR UNITS (1977) (3)
Effects of vincristine sulfate on touch dome function in the rat (1984) (3)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Migraine: A New Therapy and New Insights into Pathogenesis. (2016) (3)
Restoration of functional continuity in dystrophic murine muscle after crushing (1983) (3)
Potentiated H-reflexes in healthy and hemiplegic subjects. (1972) (3)
FAMILIAL PERIODIC PARALYSIS (1977) (3)
THE DOUBLE CRUSH SYNDROME (1977) (3)
Comparisons of motor unit populations in disease. (1973) (3)
THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION (1977) (3)
Section IReview of MUNE over 30 years (2003) (2)
Electricity Works (2019) (2)
The World of Touch – From Evoked Potentials to Conscious Perception (1999) (2)
Indirect estimation of e.p.s.p.s in human soleus motoneurones [proceedings]. (1979) (2)
The basis of motor control (integrating the activity of muscles, alpha and gamma motoneurons and their leading control systems) (1973) (2)
Effects ofage,temperature, anddisease on the refractoriness ofhumannerveandmuscle1 (1978) (2)
Central nervous system effects of limb amputation in man (1978) (2)
Can cross‐talk occur in human myelinated nerve fibers? (2016) (2)
Limited plasticity of human muscle (1996) (2)
EXERCISE AND FATIGUE (1977) (2)
Three novel electrophysiologic tests for patients with muscle weakness. (1987) (2)
The Squid Giant Axon (2011) (1)
MYOPATHIES: THE NEUROGENIC HYPOTHESIS (1974) (1)
Containing the contents. (1998) (1)
Chapter 14 – MYOTONIA (1977) (1)
Quantitative input-output relationships between human soleus muscle spindle afferents and motoneurons. (2018) (1)
Chapter 18 – MYASTHENIA GRAVIS (1977) (1)
The Migraine Aura: A Problem for Vision Theory? (2016) (1)
Transneuronal Degeneration as Basic Mechanism of Muscular Atrophy of Central Origin (Reply) (1972) (1)
NEUROPATHIC AND MYOPATHIC DISORDERS: SICK MOTONEURONE HYPOTHESIS (1977) (1)
Effect of vincristine sulphate on touch dome function [proceedings]. (1980) (1)
Chapter 12 – AGEING (1977) (1)
CONTRACTILE PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE (1983) (1)
THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES (1977) (1)
Invertebrate nervous systems. Their significance for mammalian neurophysiology (1968) (1)
Letters to the editor (0)
The Giant Axon Impaled (2011) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO DISORDERS OF MUSCLE FIBRE MEMBRANES (1977) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO DISORDERS OF NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS (1977) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO DISORDERS OF MUSCLE FIBRE CONTENTS (1977) (0)
Magnetic stimulation for acute migraine headache. What is being stimulated? (2023) (0)
Continuing the Synthesis (2019) (0)
Aranzio's Seahorse and the Search for Memory and Consciousness (2022) (0)
MUNE in ALS: natural history and implications (2003) (0)
Single Units and Grandmother Cells (2019) (0)
Who Else Is Conscious? (2019) (0)
Letter: Myopathies: the neurogenic hypothesis. (1974) (0)
Chapter 28 – CONCLUSIONS (1977) (0)
Mapping the Brain (2019) (0)
455: CENTRAL FACTORS IN HUMAN FATIGUE (1987) (0)
Sherrington's Loom (2019) (0)
Current research in neurosciences. A volume commemorating the 50th anniversary of the graduation of Ernest A. Spiegel (1971) (0)
Motor unit types, recruitment and plasticity in health and disease. By J. E. Desmedt, 416 pp, S. Karger, Basel, Switzerland, 1981 (1982) (0)
MUNE in prior poliomyelitis and spinal muscular atrophy (2003) (0)
Chapter 11 – MUSCLE GROWTH (1977) (0)
Awaking the Cortex (2019) (0)
The Voltage Clamp (2011) (0)
Groundwork: Cellular Events (2019) (0)
Myotonic Goats and Migraines (2011) (0)
WALLERIAN DEGENERATION AND FIBRE REGENERATION (1977) (0)
Chapter 24 – MOTONEURONE DEGENERATION (1977) (0)
The Anatomist’s Eye (2011) (0)
fibre membranes in man . Electrical properties of muscle (0)
Anelectrophysiolog ical investigation oflimb- girdle andfacioscapulohumeral dystrophy (1971) (0)
DEMYELINATION AND REMYELINATION (1977) (0)
Chapter 5 – MUSCLE CONTRACTION (1977) (0)
chapter 2 – The neuromuscular system (2003) (0)
PSEUDOMYASTHENIC SYNDROMES AND OTHER SYNAPTIC DEFECTS (1977) (0)
M-WAVE POTENTIATION DURING VOLUNTARY MUSCULAR ACTIVITY: 396 (1980) (0)
THE MOTONEURONE AND ITS AXON (1977) (0)
Central nervous effects of limb amputation in man A. McComas, R. Sica and S. Banerjee, Nature (Lond.), 271 (1978) 73–74 (1979) (0)
Chapter 22 – NERVE COMPRESSION (1977) (0)
The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (2011) (0)
MUNE in the electrodiagnostic clinic (2003) (0)
Negating and Affirming Spirit Through Language: The Integration of Character, Magic, and Story in The Lord of the Rings : Part II (1993) (0)
More on Gnostic Units and Cortical Columns (2019) (0)
The Swinging Gate (2011) (0)
Making Sense of the Senses (2019) (0)
Concepts, Conferences, and Controversies (2019) (0)
More Triumphs with Microelectrodes (2011) (0)
TOXIC AND METABOLIC NEUROPATHIES (1977) (0)
POLYMYOSITIS, MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA AND OTHER MYOPATHIES (1977) (0)
Looking to the Future (2019) (0)
The Single Ion Channel (2011) (0)
Muscle: The New Physiology (2011) (0)
TROPHIC INTERACTIONS OF NERVE AND MUSCLE: DENERVATION AND REINNERVATION (1977) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO DISORDERS OF NERVE FIBRES (1977) (0)
Basic ideas in neurophysiology (1968) (0)
Neuromuscular reaction to paired stimuli. (1983) (0)
Sensory processes Vol. 1, number 1 (June 1976), pp. 1–98, editor: L. E. Marks, publisher: Academic Press, New York, London, subscription price: US$ 35.00 (in U.S.A.), US$ 38.00 (outside U.S.A.) plus postage, 4 issues per year (1977) (0)
[Resting potentials of normal and dystrophic mouse muscle]. (1969) (0)
Chapter 10 Motor unit estimates in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (2002) (0)
Trophic functions of the neuron. IV. Clinical disorders of trophic functions muscular dystrophy? Sick motoneurons and muscle disease. (1974) (0)
TROPHIC INFLUENCE OF MUSCLE ON NERVE (1977) (0)
Definition and the Mind–Body Problem (2019) (0)
164: OPERATION EVEREST II (1987) (0)
Cambridge, 1904: The Engineer (2011) (0)
Readings in neurophysiology (1970) (0)
Chapter 9 Basic mechanisms of muscle fatigue in humans (2002) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO DISORDERS OF MOTONEURONES (1977) (0)
Reflections on motor unit number estimation (2015) (0)
[Skin relexes of small muscles of the hand]. (1974) (0)
A stereotaxic atlas of the Java monkey brain (Macaca irus) (1969) (0)
The War Years (2011) (0)
Excitation and Inhibition (2011) (0)
Plan of the Book (2019) (0)
REVERSIBLE MOTONEURONE DYSFUNCTION IN THYROTOXICOSIS (1977) (0)

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