Common Principles of Motor Control in Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Annual Review of NeurosciencePublished 1 March 1993
K. G. Pearson
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Comparative neurobiology has proven to be a powerful discipline for elucidating the principles that describe the evolution, development, and functioning of the nervous system, and the analysis of more complex integrative processes has benefited from studies of invertebrate nervous systems.
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The brain's default mode network consists of discrete, bilateral and symmetrical cortical areas, in the medial and lateral parietal, medial prefrontal, and medial and lateral temporal cortices of the human, nonhuman primate, cat, and rodent brains. Its ...Read More
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Journal of Experimental BiologyMotor Programme Switching in the Crayfish Swimmeret System
31 Citations1985W. J. Heitler
Experimental perturbation of a single neurone can induce a motor programme switch such as to change the activity of some hundreds of neurones in at least three ganglia.
Journal of Experimental BiologyAdaptive Modifications in the Flight System of the Locust After the Removal Of Wing Proprioceptors
30 Citations1991Ansgar Büschges, K. G. Pearson
Intracellular recordings from elevator motoneurones showed that this recovery was associated with changes in the pattern of excitatory input to these mot oneurones, and was dependent on afferent input since complete deafferentation of recovered animals resulted in a motor pattern similar to that following deafference of normal animals.
Journal of Comparative Physiology AReflex modulation in locusts walking on a treadwheel intracellular recordings from motoneurons
26 Citations1992Harald Wolf
The results demonstrate how reflex modulation is represented on the level of synaptic input to motoneurons and suggest independent gain control in parallel, antagonistic pathways converging onto the same motoneuron as a mechanism for reflex reversal during locomotion.
Brain ResearchRole of joint afferents in relation to the initiation of forelimb stepping in thalamic cats
25 Citations1984Muneo Shimamura, Ikuko Kogure +1 more
The results indicate that joint afferents may play an important role in the initiation of forelimb stepping in thalamic cats walking on a motor-driven treadmill.
Brain ResearchThe effects of 4-aminopyridine on the spinal cord: Rhythmic discharges recorded from the peripheral nerves
24 Citations1986Re ́jean Dubuc, Serge Rossignol +1 more
It appears that large doses of 4-AP exert potent effects on the spinal cord which can override other patterns of activity and synchronize the electrical activity of many neuronal elements.
Journal of NeurophysiologySwimming rhythm in decerebrated, paralyzed stingrays: normal and abnormal coupling
22 Citations1983M.H. Droge, R. Leonard
Rhythmic motoneuronal activity was recorded from decerebrated, paralyzed stingrays and compared with electromyograms recorded from the same animals, suggesting that multiple oscillator circuits exist that are not dependent on propriospinal circuits interconnecting different segments.
Nonspiking and Spiking Local Interneurons in the Locust
21 Citations1985Malcolm Burrows
Since the discovery of interneurons that normally do not produce action potentials (nonspiking interneeurons) the question of why such neurons should exist has always been present.
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