Motor cortex microcircuits : : (Frontiers in brain microcircuits series) / / topic editors: Michael Brecht, Nicholas Hatsopoulos,Takehsi Kaneko and Gordon M. G. Shepherd.

How does the motor cortex enable mammals to generate accurate, complex, and purposeful movements? A cubic milimeter of motor cortex contains roughly ̃10̂5 cells, an amazing ̃4 Km of axons and ̃0.4 Km of dendrites, somehow wired together with ̃10̂9 synapses. Corticospinal neurons (a.k.a. Betz cells,...

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Superior document:Frontiers Research Topics
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Place / Publishing House:France : : Frontiers Media SA,, 2014
Year of Publication:2015
2014
Language:English
Series:Frontiers Research Topics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (133 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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