Search Results - "Miri, Andrew"
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Behaviorally Selective Engagement of Short-Latency Effector Pathways by Motor Cortex
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (02-08-2017)“…Blocking motor cortical output with lesions or pharmacological inactivation has identified movements that require motor cortex. Yet, when and how motor cortex…”
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Spinal Inhibitory Interneuron Diversity Delineates Variant Motor Microcircuits
Published in Cell (24-03-2016)“…Animals generate movement by engaging spinal circuits that direct precise sequences of muscle contraction, but the identity and organizational logic of local…”
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Regression-based identification of behavior-encoding neurons during large-scale optical imaging of neural activity at cellular resolution
Published in Journal of neurophysiology (01-02-2011)“…The advent of methods for optical imaging of large-scale neural activity at cellular resolution in behaving animals presents the problem of identifying…”
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Prolonged, brain-wide expression of nuclear-localized GCaMP3 for functional circuit mapping
Published in Frontiers in neural circuits (26-11-2014)“…Larval zebrafish offer the potential for large-scale optical imaging of neural activity throughout the central nervous system; however, several barriers…”
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All-trans-retinal shuts down rod cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels: A novel role for photoreceptor retinoids in the response to bright light?
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-06-2002)“…In retinal rods, light-induced isomerization of 11- cis -retinal to all- trans -retinal within rhodopsin triggers an enzyme cascade that lowers the…”
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Motor cortical influence relies on task-specific activity covariation
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (27-09-2022)“…During limb movement, spinal circuits facilitate the alternating activation of antagonistic flexor and extensor muscles. Yet antagonist cocontraction is often…”
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Primacy of Flexor Locomotor Pattern Revealed by Ancestral Reversion of Motor Neuron Identity
Published in Cell (16-07-2015)“…Spinal circuits can generate locomotor output in the absence of sensory or descending input, but the principles of locomotor circuit organization remain…”
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Spatial gradients and multidimensional dynamics in a neural integrator circuit
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-09-2011)“…The authors measure the time constant of decay of persistent firing (persistence time) across a population of larval zebrafish oculomotor velocity-to-position…”
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Towards Cell and Subtype Resolved Functional Organization: Mouse as a Model for the Cortical Control of Movement
Published in Neuroscience (01-12-2020)“…•In this review, we consider the mouse as a model for studying the functional organization of motor cortex.•Technical limits have historically precluded…”
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Oculomotor plant and neural dynamics suggest gaze control requires integration on distributed timescales
Published in The Journal of physiology (01-08-2022)“…A fundamental principle of biological motor control is that the neural commands driving movement must conform to the response properties of the motor plants…”
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Edging toward Entelechy in Motor Control
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (30-10-2013)“…The organization and functional logic of corticospinal motor neurons and their target connections remains unclear, despite their evident influence on movement…”
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Motor Cortex Embeds Muscle-like Commands in an Untangled Population Response
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (21-02-2018)“…Primate motor cortex projects to spinal interneurons and motoneurons, suggesting that motor cortex activity may be dominated by muscle-like commands…”
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A Dynamical Feedback Model for Adaptation in the Olfactory Transduction Pathway
Published in Biophysical journal (20-06-2012)“…Olfactory transduction exhibits two distinct types of adaptation, which we denote multipulse and step adaptation. In terms of measured transduction current,…”
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All-trans-retinal is a closed-state inhibitor of rod cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels
Published in The Journal of general physiology (01-05-2004)“…Rod vision begins when 11-cis-retinal absorbs a photon and isomerizes to all-trans-retinal (ATR) within the photopigment, rhodopsin. Photoactivated rhodopsin…”
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All-trans-Retinal Shuts Down Rod Cyclic Nucleotidegated Ion Channels: A Novel Role for Photoreceptor Retinoids in the Response to Bright Light?
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-06-2002)“…In retinal rods, light-induced isomerization of 11-cis-retinal to all-trans-retinal within rhodopsin triggers an enzyme cascade that lowers the concentration…”
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Multidimensional Firing Rate Dynamics in a Neural Integrator
Published 01-01-2011“…The neural mechanisms underlying short-term memory remain largely unknown. The horizontal velocity-to-position neural integrator (hVPNI) is a compelling model…”
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