9.01 | Fall 2007 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Neuroscience

Lecture Notes

Movement II

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Lecture notes on neural systems, the motor system, movement, supraspinal motor areas, extraocular muscles and eye movement, the vestibulo-ocular reflex, vestibular organs, the map of saccade vectors on the superior colliculus, upper motor neurons, corticospinal pathways, motor cortical areas, center-out reaching task, M1 cells, complex actions evoked by electrical stimulation, the final common pathway, basal ganglia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and cerebellar function.

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Fall 2007
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