NeuronsNetworksMotorBehavior

Tue Oct 21 14:57:16 EDT 1997

The volume "NEURONS, NETWORKS, AND MOTOR BEHAVIOR"
edited by PSG Stein, S Grillner, AI Selverston, and DG Stuart
is now available from the MIT Press.
See the MIT Press website for additional information:
mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262193906
Many of the authors of chapters of this volume were speakers
at the 1995 Tucson conference on Neurons, Networks, and Motor Behavior.

The volume can be viewed at the MIT Press booth
at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans.
MIT Press offers a 20% discount for orders
placed using forms available at the meeting.

A similar discount is available for attendees of the 
1995 Tucson conference.  An EMail to 1995 meeting attendees
was recently sent by Pat Pierce in Doug Stuart's lab.
Contact Pat at DGStuart at U.Arizona.EDU 
if you did not receive her EMail.

    -----The following is additional information about the volume-----

    Recent advances in motor behavior research rely on detailed knowledge of 
the characteristics of the neurons and networks that generate motor 
behavior. At the cellular level, Neurons, Networks, and Motor Behavior 
describes the computational characteristics of individual neurons and how 
these characteristics are modified by neuromodulators. At the network and 
behavioral levels, the volume discusses how network structure is dynamically 
modulated to produce adaptive behavior. Comparisons of model systems 
throughout the animal kingdom provide insights into general principles of 
motor control. Contributors describe how networks generate such motor 
behaviors as walking, swimming, flying, scratching, reaching, breathing, 
feeding, and chewing. An emerging principle of organization is that nervous 
systems are remarkably efficient in constructing neural networks that 
control multiple tasks and dynamically adapt to change.
    The volume contains six sections: selection and initiation of motor 
patterns; generation and formation of motor patterns: cellular and systems 
properties; generation and formation of motor patterns: computational 
approaches; modulation and reconfiguration; short-term modulation of pattern 
generating circuits; and sensory modification of motor output to control 
whole body orientation.

   -----TABLE OF CONTENTS OF NEURONS, NETWORKS, AND MOTOR BEHAVIOR-----

SELECTION AND INITIATION OF MOTOR PATTERNS
1.  Selection and Initiation of Motor Behavior
      Sten Grillner, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, and Larry M. Jordan
2.  The Role of Population Coding in the Control of Movement
      David L. Sparks, William B. Kristan, Jr., and Brian K. Shaw
3.  Neural Substrates for Initation of Startle Responses
      Roy E. Ritzmann and Robert C. Eaton
GENERATION AND FORMATION OF MOTOR PATTERNS: CELLULAR AND SYSTEMS PROPERTIES
4.  Basic Building Blocks of Vertebrate Spinal Central Pattern Generators
      Ole Kiehn, Jorn Hounsgaard, and Keith T. Sillar
5.  Neural and Biomechanical Control Strategies for Different Forms of
    Vertebrate Hindlimb Motor Tasks
      Paul S.G. Stein and Judith L. Smith
6.  Spinal Networks and Sensory Feedback in the Control of Undulatory
    Swimming in Lamprey
      Peter Wallen
7.  Spinal Networks Controlling Swimming in Hatchling Xenopus Tadpoles
      Alan Roberts, Steve R. Soffe, and Ray Perrins
8.  Role of Ionic Currents in the Operation of Motor Circuits in the
    Xenopus Embryo
      Nicholas Dale
9.  Integration of Cellular and Network Mechanisms in Mammalian
    Oscillatory Motor Circuits: Insights from the Respiratory Oscillator
      Jeffrey C. Smith
10. Shared Features of Invertebrate Central Pattern Generators
      Allen I. Selverston, Yuri V. Panchin, Yuri I. Arshavsky, and
      Grigori N. Orlovsky
11. Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Synaptic Mechanisms in Motor
    Rhythm Generators
      Ronald L. Calabrese and Jack L. Feldman
12. Organization of Neural Networks for the Control of Posture and
    Locomotion in an Insect
      Malcolm Burrows
GENERATION AND FORMATION OF MOTOR PATTERNS: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES
13. How Computation Aids in Understanding Biological Networks
      Eve Marder, Nancy Kopell, and Karen Sigvardt
14. Dynamical Systems Analyses of Real Neuronal Networks
      John Guckenheimer and Peter Rowat
15. Realistic Modeling of Burst Generation and Swimming in Lamprey
      Anders Lansner, Orjan Ekeberg, and Sten Grillner
16. Integrate-and-Fire Simulations of Two Molluscan Neural Circuits
      William N. Frost, James R. Lieb, Jr., Mark J. Tunstall, 
      Brett D. Mensh, and Paul S. Katz
MODULATION AND RECONFIGURATION
17. Chemical Modulation of Vertebrate Motor Circuits
      Keith T. Sillar, Ole Kiehn, and Norio Kudo
18. Modulation of Neural Circuits by Steroid Hormones in Rodent and
    Insect Model Systems
      Janis C. Weeks and Bruce McEwen
19. Chemical Modulation of Crustacean Stomatogastric Pattern Generator
    Networks
      Ronald M. Harris-Warrick, Deborah J. Baro, Lisa M. Coniglio, Bruce R.
      Johnson, Robert M. Levini, Jack H. Peck, and Bing Zhang
20. Reconfiguration of the Peripheral Plant during Various Forms of
    Feeding Behaviors in the Mollusc Aplysia
      Irving Kupfermann, Vladimir Brezina, Elizabeth C. Cropper, Dillip
      Deodhar, William C. Probst, Steven C. Rosen, Ferdinand S. Vilim, and
      Klaudiusz R. Weiss
SHORT-TERM MODULATION OF PATTERN GENERATING CIRCUITS
21. Sensory Modulation of Pattern Generating Circuits
      Keir G. Pearson and Jan-Marino Ramirez
22. Presynaptic Mechanisms during Rhythmic Activity in Vertebrates and
    Invertebrates
      Michael P. Nusbaum, Abdeljabbar El Manira, Jean-Pierre Gossard, and
      Serge Rossignol
SENSORY MODIFICATION OF MOTOR OUTPUT TO CONTROL WHOLE BODY ORIENTATION
23. Control of Body Orientation and Equilibrium in Vertebrates
      Jane M. Macpherson, Tatiana G. Deliagina, and Grigori N. Orlovsky
24. Centrally-Patterned Behavior Generates Sensory Input for Adaptive
    Control
      Mark A. Willis and Edmund A. Arbas
25. Oculomotor Control in Insects: From Muscles to Elementary Motion
    Detectors
      Nicholas J. Strausfeld

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