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Could you explain in more detail what the effects of different methods would be?

• hprotagonist 9y ago
  amputations too high up, or accidental amputations that mangle rather than cleanly remove, are more likely to make EMG decoding harder. If the axons are too damaged during the amputation they'll wither and die, so the signal's lost; if the arm is removed too high up, it becomes more challenging to isolate existing neurons that went all the way to the fingers. In both cases, muscle movement itself will swamp the motor neuron signal in ways that make demuxing very challenging.
  • dTal 9y ago
    >neurons that went all the way to the fingers. nitpick: there are no such motor neurons. The fingers are controlled by muscles in the palm and forearm. But you probably knew this :)