• DOI:10.1146/annurev.neuro.31.060407.125547
Corpus ID: 16139768

Descending pathways in motor control.

@article{Lemon2008DescendingPI,
  title={Descending pathways in motor control.},
  author={R. Lemon},
  journal={Annual review of neuroscience},
  year={2008},
  volume={31},
  pages={
          195-218
        }
}

• R. Lemon
• Published 2008
• Psychology, Medicine
• Annual review of neuroscience

Each of the descending pathways involved in motor control has a number of anatomical, molecular, pharmacological, and neuroinformatic characteristics. They are differentially involved in motor control, a process that results from operations involving the entire motor network rather than from the brain commanding the spinal cord. A given pathway can have many functional roles. This review explores to what extent descending pathways are highly conserved across species and concludes that there are… Expand