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Title Neural control of movement : model systems and tools to study locomotor function / edited by Patrick J. Whelan, Simon A. Sharples
Published London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xlv, 437 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Chapter 1. Elegantly -- Chapter 2. Small steps and larger strides in understanding the neural bases of crawling in the medicinal leech -- Chapter 3. Studying the neural basis of animal walking in the stick insect -- Chapter 4. Neural control of flight in locusts -- Chapter 5. Neural control of swimming in lampreys -- Chapter 6. Toward a comprehensive model of circuits underlying locomotion: What did we learn from zebrafish -- Chapter 7. Neural control of swimming in hatchling Xenopus frog tadpoles -- Chapter 8. Xenopus frog metamorphosis: A model for studying locomotor network development and neuromodulation -- Chapter 9. The turtle as a model for spinal motor circuits -- Chapter 10. Development of the locomotor system: Chick embryo -- Chapter 11. Using mouse genetics to study the developing spinal locomotor circuit -- Chapter 12. Using mouse genetics to investigate supraspinal pathways of the brain important to locomotion -- Chapter 13. Fundamental contributions of the cat model to the neural control of locomotion -- Chapter 14. The micropig model of neurosurgery and spinal cord injury in experiments of motor control -- Chapter 15. What lies beneath the brain: Neural circuits involved in human locomotion -- Chapter 16. A tale of many models: Which one creates the best of times? -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed May 11, 2021)
Subject Kinesiology.
Locomotion.
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena
Movement
Locomotion
Kinesiology
Locomotion
Form Electronic book
Author Whelan, Patrick J., 1955- editor
Sharples, Simon A., editor
ISBN 9780128172759
0128172754
9780128164778
0128164778