Computation in spinal circuitry: Lessons from behaving primates

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-128

  Harel, Ran ^a,b,c   Asher, Itay ^a,b   Cohen, Oren ^a,b   Israel, Zvi ^d   Shalit, Uri ^a,b   Yanai, Yuval ^a,b   Zinger, Nofya ^a,b   Prut, Yifat ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Corticospinal connectivity; Motor control; Motor cortex; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRIMATES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 50549087281     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.07.013     Document Type: Review

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