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Home > LMB In The News > Fundamental rules for how the brain controls movements

Fundamental rules for how the brain controls movements

Published on 24 October, 2017

Using the nematode as one test system, scientists at CCNR have spent the past several years understanding how a network controls itself—for instance, which individual neurons in the worm’s brain are in charge of a backward wiggle. In research published in Nature, they describe for the first time their ability to predict, test, and confirm with unprecedented detail how a nematode’s brain controls the way it moves.  Colleagues from Bill Schafer’s group at the LMB tested the predictions by killing individual neurons from the nematode brain with a laser.  They then measured the effects of these “microsurgeries” on behaviour. More…

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