New perspectives on spinal motor systems
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Vol. 1 (2) , 101-108
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35039000
Abstract
The production and control of complex motor functions are usually attributed to central brain structures such as cortex, basal ganglia and cerebellum. In traditional schemes the spinal cord is assigned a subservient function during the production of movement, playing a predominantly passive role by relaying the commands dictated to it by supraspinal systems. This review challenges this idea by presenting evidence that the spinal motor system is an active participant in several aspects of the production of movement, contributing to functions normally ascribed to `higher' brain regions.Keywords
This publication has 66 references indexed in Scilit:
- Primate spinal interneurons show pre-movement instructed delay activityNature, 1999
- Temporal features of directional tuning by spinocerebellar neurons: relation to limb geometryJournal of Neurophysiology, 1996
- Transmission of the cortical command for human voluntary movement through cervical propriospinal premotoneuronsProgress in Neurobiology, 1996
- Premotor cortex of monkeys: set- and movement-related activity reflecting amplitude and direction of wrist movementsJournal of Neurophysiology, 1993
- Interneuronal relay in spinal pathways from proprioceptorsProgress in Neurobiology, 1992
- Preparation for movement: neural representations of intended direction in three motor areas of the monkeyJournal of Neurophysiology, 1990
- Cognitive spatial-motor processesExperimental Brain Research, 1989
- Do neurons in the motor cortex encode movement direction? An alternative hypothesisNeuroscience Letters, 1988
- Selective neuronal discharge in monkey putamen reflects intended direction of planned limb movementsExperimental Brain Research, 1987
- Anticipatory activity of motor cortex neurons in relation to direction of an intended movementJournal of Neurophysiology, 1976