Movement is accomplished by the controlled activation of motor unit populations. Our
understanding of motor unit physiology has been derived from experimental work on the …

Movement, the fundamental component of behavior and the principal extrinsic action of the
brain, is produced when skeletal muscles contract and relax in response to patterns of action …

The dendrites of motoneurons are not, as once thought, passive conduits for synaptic inputs.
Instead they have voltage‐dependent channels that provide the capacity to generate a very …

Over the past 40 years, much has been learned about the role of serotonin in spinal cord
reflex modulation and locomotor pattern generation. This review presents an historical …

Many of the general concepts regarding the control of walking were described years ago by:
Sherrington (1906) Integrative Actions of the Nervous System. Yale University Press: New …

The excitability of spinal motoneurons is both fundamental for motor behavior and essential
in diagnosis of neural disorders. There are two mechanisms for altering this excitability. The …

In 1995, C. David Marsden published an important paper entitled “Progressive myoclonic
ataxia associated with coeliac disease-The myoclonus is of cortical origin but the pathology …

Cowley, KC and BJ Schmidt. Regional distribution of the locomotor pattern-generating
network in the neonatal rat spinal cord. J. Neurophysiol. 77: 247–259, 1997. The regional …

Communication between neurons can occur chemically via synaptic transmission. This
communication process begins when an invading depolarization opens voltage-gated …

Intracellular recordings were made from sacrocaudal tail motoneurons of acute and chronic
spinal rats to examine whether plateau potentials contribute to spasticity associated with …