SUMMARY: This post explores sensory gating of external and internal sensation. Can our reticular thalamic nuclei keep out or reduce ‘irrelevant’ sensory information for the endurance athlete? EVIDENCE FOR SENSORY GATING Student: That summary looks familiar: gating in sensory information and gating out other sensations. Professor: Yes. (See more at: The Sensory Gate is Real.) […]

Summary: List blog topics that will help prepare review for a journal about fatigue. Student: You have been invited to write a review about Fatigue and RPE. Congratulations! Professor: Thank you, Simone Cairns of Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand for setting up the invitation. The actual invitation came from Fred Friedberg, for his journal: “Fatigue: Biomedicine, […]