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Janet Taylor
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Dr
Janet TAYLOR, MBiomedE, MD |
Current appointments
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Prince of Wales
Medical Research Institute
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South
Wales
Current projects
Investigation of how factors such as muscle fatigue, body
temperature and previous exercise alter the way
in which the nervous system
drives the muscles in human subjects.
Study of how the human nervous
system adapts to control muscle contractions when the muscle has
been damaged by exercise and is stiff and sore.
Changing sensory input alters
how cells behave in some areas of the brain. We are studying
how this affects the perception of body parts and the control of
movement in humans.
Research Staff
Ms Janette Smith (Research assistant)
Research Students
Ms Orawan Prasartwuth (PhD student)
Voluntary activation after eccentric exercise
Peter Martin (PhD student)
Central fatigue in human subjects
Key Publications
Taylor JL & McCloskey DI (1990). Triggering of
pre-programmed movements as reactions to masked stimuli.
Journal of Neurophysiology 63, 439-446.
Ridding MC, Taylor JL & Rothwell JC (1995) The effect of
voluntary contraction on cortico-cortical inhibition in human
motor cortex. Journal of Physiology 487, 541-548.
Taylor JL, Butler JE, Allen GM & Gandevia SC (1996) Changes in
motor cortical excitability in human muscle fatigue. Journal of
Physiology 490, 519-528.
Gandevia SC, Allen GM, Butler JE & Taylor JL (1996) Supraspinal
factors in human muscle fatigue: evidence for suboptimal output
from the motor cortex. Journal of Physiology 490, 529-536.
Fitzpatrick RC, Wardman D & Taylor JL (1999) Effect of galvanic
stimulation in human walking. Journal of Physiology 517,
931-939.
Gandevia SC, Petersen N, Butler JE, Taylor JL (1999) Impaired
response of human motoneurones to corticospinal stimulation
after voluntary exercise. Journal of Physiology 521, 749-759.
Taylor JL & Gandevia SC (2001) Transcranial magnetic stimulation
and human muscle fatigue. Muscle & Nerve 24, 18-29.
Ridding MC & Taylor JL (2001) Mechanisms of motor-evoked
potential facilitation following prolonged dual peripheral and
central stimulation in humans. Journal of Physiology 537,
623-31.
Todd G, Petersen NT, Taylor JL & Gandevia SC (2003) Measurements
of voluntary activation of fresh and fatigued human muscles
using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Physiology
551, 661-671.
Petersen NT, Taylor JL, Butler JE & Gandevia SC (2003).
Depression of activity in the corticospinal pathway during
human motor behavior after strong voluntary contractions.
Journal of Neuroscience 23, 7974-7980. |
