Premotor and motoneurons could play regulatory roles in motor control. We have investigated the role of a premotor nonspiking (NS) neuron of the leech nervous system in two locomotive patterns: swimming and crawling. The NS neuron is coupled through rectifying electrical junctions to all the excitatory motoneurons examined. In addition, activation of motoneurons evokes chemically mediated inhibitory responses in NS. During swimming and crawling, the NS membrane potential (VmNS) oscillated phase locked to the motor output. Hyperpolarization or depolarization of NS had no effect on swimming, but hyperpolarization of NS slowed down the crawling activity and decreased the motoneuron firing frequency. Depolarization of NS increased the motoneuro...
Summary: The mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR) serves as an interface between higher-order motor ...
While motor neuron activity has been studied for many decades, the relative contribution of synaptic...
Four oscillatory interneurones that appear to be the principal components of the central swim oscill...
Motoneurons are not mere output units of neuronal circuits that control motor behavior but participa...
The review proposes a comparison between recurrent inhibition in motor systems of vertebrates and th...
UNiversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2011. Major: Neuroscience. Advisor: Dr. Karen A. Mes...
Locomotion is a ubiquitous behavior demonstrated by the majority, if not all animals. However, the m...
Changing gain in a neuronal system has important functional consequences, but the underlying mechani...
Locomotion is controlled in large part by neural circuits (CPGs) that generate rhythmic stereotyped ...
1. The closer muscles of the left and the right spiracles of a thoracic segment are both innervated ...
Locomotion rhythms are thought to be generated by neurons in the central-pattern-generator (CPG) cir...
The nervous system of the leech is a particularly suitable model to investigate neural coding of sen...
The present manuscript aims at identifying patterns of electrical activity recorded from neurons of ...
The focus of my dissertation centers on how networks of neurons interact to generate behaviors in th...
In the leech, the command-like neuron called cell Tr2 is known to stop swimming, but the connections...
Summary: The mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR) serves as an interface between higher-order motor ...
While motor neuron activity has been studied for many decades, the relative contribution of synaptic...
Four oscillatory interneurones that appear to be the principal components of the central swim oscill...
Motoneurons are not mere output units of neuronal circuits that control motor behavior but participa...
The review proposes a comparison between recurrent inhibition in motor systems of vertebrates and th...
UNiversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2011. Major: Neuroscience. Advisor: Dr. Karen A. Mes...
Locomotion is a ubiquitous behavior demonstrated by the majority, if not all animals. However, the m...
Changing gain in a neuronal system has important functional consequences, but the underlying mechani...
Locomotion is controlled in large part by neural circuits (CPGs) that generate rhythmic stereotyped ...
1. The closer muscles of the left and the right spiracles of a thoracic segment are both innervated ...
Locomotion rhythms are thought to be generated by neurons in the central-pattern-generator (CPG) cir...
The nervous system of the leech is a particularly suitable model to investigate neural coding of sen...
The present manuscript aims at identifying patterns of electrical activity recorded from neurons of ...
The focus of my dissertation centers on how networks of neurons interact to generate behaviors in th...
In the leech, the command-like neuron called cell Tr2 is known to stop swimming, but the connections...
Summary: The mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR) serves as an interface between higher-order motor ...
While motor neuron activity has been studied for many decades, the relative contribution of synaptic...
Four oscillatory interneurones that appear to be the principal components of the central swim oscill...