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Alan John McComas

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Professor EmeritusMedicineMcMaster University

Research

Research areas, by share of publications

Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.

From the 150 most recent of 269 publications.

01

Aranzio’s Seahorse and the Search for Memory and Consciousness

Kirshner HS

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology20231 citations
02

Magnetic stimulation for acute migraine headache. What is being stimulated?

McComas AJ

Clinical Neurophysiology2023First author
03

Quantitative input-output relationships between human soleus muscle spindle afferents and motoneurons

McComas A, deBruin H, Fu W

Journal of Neurophysiology20181 citationsFirst author
04

Hypothesis: Hughlings Jackson and presynaptic inhibition: is there a big picture?

McComas AJ

Journal of Neurophysiology201619 citationsFirst author
05

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Migraine: A New Therapy and New Insights into Pathogenesis

McComas AJ, Upton ARM

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering20163 citationsFirst author
06

Can cross‐talk occur in human myelinated nerve fibers?

McComas A

Muscle and Nerve20162 citationsFirst author
07

The Migraine Aura: A Problem for Vision Theory?

McComas AJ, Upton ARM

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering20161 citationsFirst author
08

Cortical spreading depression in migraine-time to reconsider?

McComas AJ, Upton ARM

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria20155 citationsFirst authorOpen Access
09

Reflections on motor unit number estimation

McComas AJ

Muscle and Nerve20151 citationsFirst author
10

Joseph Erlanger (1874–1965)

McComas AJ

2015First author
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