Central pattern generators are neuronal circuits that when activated can produce rhythmic
motor patterns such as walking, breathing, flying, and swimming in the absence of sensory …

Studies of the stomatogastric nervous systems of lobsters and crabs have led to numerous
insights into the cellular and circuit mechanisms that generate rhythmic motor patterns. The …

Neuromodulation underlies many behavioral states and has been extensively studied in
small circuits. This has allowed the systematic exploration of how neuromodulatory …

I summarize recent computational and experimental work that addresses the inherent
variability in the synaptic and intrinsic conductances in normal healthy brains and shows that …

Central pattern generators (CPGs) are circuits that generate organized and repetitive motor
patterns, such as those underlying feeding, locomotion and respiration. We summarize …

How neuronal networks enable animals, humans included, to make coordinated movements
is a continuing goal of neuroscience research. The stomatogastric nervous system of …

Neuromodulation provides considerable flexibility to the output of neural networks. In spite of
the extensive literature documenting the presence of modulatory peptide co-transmitters in …

All network dynamics emerge from the complex interaction between the intrinsic membrane
properties of network neurons and their synaptic connections. Nervous systems contain …

Most spiking neurons are divided into functional compartments: a dendritic input region, a
soma, a site of action potential initiation, an axon trunk and its collaterals for propagation of …

Rhythmically active neuronal networks give rise to rhythmic motor activities but also to
seemingly non-rhythmic behaviors such as sleep, arousal, addiction, memory and cognition …