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 …

The modification of the discharge pattern of subthalamic nucleus (STN) neurons from single-
spike activity to mixed burst-firing mode is one of the characteristics of parkinsonism in rat …

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 …

Lee, RH and CJ Heckman. Bistability in spinal motoneurons in vivo: systematic variations in
persistent inward currents. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 583–593, 1998. Bistable behavior in spinal …

The impact of neuromodulators on active dendritic conductances was investigated by the
use of intracellular recording techniques in spinal motoneurons in the adult cat. The well …

After chronic spinal cord injury motoneurons exhibit large plateau potentials (sustained
depolarizations triggered by brief inputs) that play a primary role in the development of …

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