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Dr
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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Schedule
Saturday, November 6, 2021
6:00 AM Australia/Sydney
Recording provided by the organiser.
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
Sydney Systems Neuroscience and Complexity SNAC
Duration
60 minutes
The ability to reach, grasp, and manipulate objects is a remarkable expression of motor skill, and the loss of this ability in injury, stroke, or disease can be devastating. These behaviors are controlled by the coordinated activity of tens of millions of neurons distributed across many CNS regions, including the primary motor cortex. While many studies have characterized the activity of single cortical neurons during reaching, the principles governing the dynamics of large, distributed neural populations remain largely unknown. Recent work in primates has suggested that during the execution of reaching, motor cortex may autonomously generate the neural pattern controlling the movement, much like the spinal central pattern generator for locomotion. In this seminar, I will describe recent work that tests this hypothesis using large-scale neural recording, high-resolution behavioral measurements, dynamical systems approaches to data analysis, and optogenetic perturbations in mice. We find, by contrast, that motor cortex requires strong, continuous, and time-varying thalamic input to generate the neural pattern driving reaching. In a second line of work, we demonstrate that the cortico-cerebellar loop is not critical for driving the arm towards the target, but instead fine-tunes movement parameters to enable precise and accurate behavior. Finally, I will describe my future plans to apply these experimental and analytical approaches to the adaptive control of locomotion in complex environments.
Britton Sauerbrei
Dr
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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