{"id":7957,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fibrillation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:29","slug":"fibrillation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fibrillation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fibrillation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small, localized, irregular and involuntary muscle contraction involving single muscle fibers that is &#8216;finer&#8217; than that produced by fasciculation. &nbsp;Most often evident in neural lesions involving motoneurons, peripheral nerves and spinal roots. &nbsp;Remains until nerve becomes re-innevated or fibrotic (development of excess fibrous connective tissue). &nbsp;Fibrillation potentials measure derived from EMG have not been shown to be diagnostic of denervation. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"denervation\">Denervation<\/a>, <a href=\"electromyography_-emg-\">Electromyography (EMG)<\/a>, <a href=\"fasciculation\">Fasciculation<\/a>, <a href=\"muscle_fiber\">Muscle fiber<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small, localized, irregular and involuntary muscle contraction involving single muscle fibers that is &#8216;finer&#8217; than that produced by fasciculation. &nbsp;Most often evident in neural lesions involving motoneurons, peripheral nerves and spinal roots. &nbsp;Remains until nerve becomes re-innevated or fibrotic (development of excess fibrous connective tissue). &nbsp;Fibrillation potentials measure derived from EMG have not been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fibrillation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fibrillation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}