In order to instantly facilitate these bodily processes, highly specialized sensory and motor neurons (as well as ...

But Ginty, who heads the neurobiology department at Harvard Medical School, has been studying this quirky cast of characters — the sensory ... same touch neurons also innervate the colon, where their ...

It's remarkably different from the simple three neuron types classification — motor neurons, sensory neurons, and interneurons — one might have learned in a cursory overview of brain science.

Central pattern generators (CPGs) are circuits that generate rhythmic motor ... projection neurons (Marder and Bucher, 2006). There is much less known about indirect modulatory actions. Here, I am ...

Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or they affect the ability to see, taste, and feel through the senses. In order to instantly facilitate these bodily ...

This work will be of interest to scientists studying the motor control of the colon and more generally the enteric neuromuscular system.

and receive long-range feedback from descending neurons that encode motor commands; all in addition to polysynaptic feedforward inputs from the entire set of sensory modalities. An open question is ...

Introduction: Damage to peripheral nerves is common in major trauma cases, and current options for surgical repair are often not sufficient to promote satisfactory recovery of sensory and motor ...