Cerebellar-recipient motor thalamus drives behavioral context-specific movement initiation
Joshua Dacre, Matt Colligan, Julian J. Ammer, Julia Marie Schiemann, Thomas R Clarke, Victor Chamosa Pino, Federico Claudi, J. Alex Harston, Constantinos Eleftheriou, Janelle M.P. Pakan, Cheng-Chiu Huang, Adam W. Hantman, Nathalie L. Rochefort, Ian Duguid
The paper shows that cerebellar-recipient motor thalamus provides a fixed latency signal for movement initiation, which is critical for goal-directed behavior in mice.
bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2019 · PreprintNeuroscience