This review describes the patterns of mandibular movements that make up the whole
sequence from ingestion to swallowing food, including the basic types of cycles and their …

Mastication is a typical rhythmical behavior in mammals. Like respiration, it is now generally
accepted that the motor command for the basic pattern of rhythmical oral-facial movements …

The aim of this review is to discuss what is known about the reflex control of the human
masticatory system and to propose a method for standardized investigation. Literature …

The essential elements controlling trigeminal motoneurons during feeding lie between the
trigeminal and facial motor nuclei. These include populations of neurons in the medial …

Feeding behaviors require intricately coordinated activation among the muscles of the jaw,
tongue, and face, but the neural anatomical substrates underlying such coordination remain …

Hsiao, CF, PR Trueblood, MS Levine, and SH Chandler. Multiple effects of serotonin on
membrane properties of trigeminal motoneurons in vitro. J. Neurophysiol. 77: 2910–2924 …

The brain mechanisms underlying mastication are not fully understood. To address this
issue, we analyzed the distribution patterns of cortico–striatal and cortico–brainstem axon …

The purpose of this study was to determine the critical areas of brain stem necessary for the
production of cortically induced rhythmical jaw muscle activity (RJMs) in the anesthetized …

The study of jaw movement in humans is a primary source of information about the
relationship between voluntary movement and more primitive motor functions. This study …

Two different patterns of rhythmical jaw movements (RJM) resembling masticatory
movements were evoked by stimulation of the cerebral cortex in the rat. The first type of RJM …