ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2017
Neuronal Population Activity in Spinal Motor Circuits: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts.
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- Motor unit mechanisms of speed control in mouse locomotion.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Single-cell and ensemble activity of lumbar intermediate and ventral horn interneurons in the spinal air-stepping cat.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Why Firing Rate Distributions Are Important for Understanding Spinal Central Pattern Generators.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Balanced cholinergic modulation of spinal locomotor circuits via M2 and M3 muscarinic receptors.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Commentary: Synaptic Excitation in Spinal Motoneurons Alternates with Synaptic Inhibition and Is Balanced by Outward Rectification during Rhythmic Motor Network Activity.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2018Article
- The Spinal Neurons Exhibit an ON-OFF and OFF-ON Firing Activity Around the Onset of Fictive Scratching Episodes in the Cat.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
The core elements of stereotypical movements such as locomotion, scratching and breathing are generated by networks in the lower brainstem and the spinal cord. Ensemble activities in spinal motor networks had until recently been merely a black box, but with the emergence of ultra-thin Silicon multi-electrode technology it was possible to reveal the spiking activity of larger parts of the network. A series of experiments revealed unexpected features of spinal networks, such as multiple spiking regimes and lognormal firing rate distributions. The lognormality renders the widespread idea of a typical firing rate ± standard deviation an ill-suited description, and therefore these findings define a new arithmetic of motor networks. Focusing on the population activity behind motor pattern generation this review summarizes this advance and discusses its implications.
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