Generation of Metachronal Motor Patterns in Segmental       Nervous Systems
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Locomotion in all segmented animals consists of a repeated                 series of movements that are metachronously coordinated in                      different segments of the animal's body.  The objectives of the                 work to be performed by Dr. Brian Mulloney are to describe the                  structure, integrative properties and synaptic organization of                  the neurons that control the metachronous movements of one set of               segmental limbs, the abdominal swimmerets of the crayfish and to                describe how the ganglia in which they occur are organized.                     These experiments will allow us to compare the characteristics of               spiking intersegmental coordinators and non.spiking bilateral                   local coordinators, and to see if the non.spiking neurons play                  roles fundamentally different from those of the spiking                         interneurons in the generation of these movements.  They will                   test an hypothesis about the properties of neurons that                         synchronize bilateral pattern generating circuits.  They will                   discover the intersegmental circuits that coordinate different                  limbs metachronously, and permit us to compare these circuits                   with functionally equivalent circuits in other animals.  This                   work is important because it will yield more knowledge which is                 missing about coordinated movements and may supply valuable                     information regarding spinal reflexes in man.
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