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Bear: Neuroscience: Exploring the
Brain, 3e
Chapter 14: Brain Control of Movement
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IntroductionIntroduction
• The brain influences activity of the spinal cord
– Voluntary movements
• Hierarchy of controls
– Highest level: Strategy
– Middle level: Tactics
– Lowest level: Execution
• Sensorimotor system
– Sensory information used by all levels of the motor system
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Descending Spinal TractsDescending Spinal Tracts
• Axons from brain descend along two major pathways
– Lateral Pathways
– Ventromedial Pathways
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Descending Spinal TractsDescending Spinal Tracts
• The Lateral Pathways
– Voluntary movement - originates in cortex
– Components
• Corticospinal tract (pyramidal tract)
• Rubrospinal tract
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Descending Spinal TractsDescending Spinal Tracts
• The Lateral Pathways (Cont’d)
– The Effects of Corticospinal Lesions
• Deficit in fractionated movement of arms and hands
• Paralysis on contralateral side
• Recovery if rubrospinal tract intact
• Subsequent rubrospinal lesion reverses recovery
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• The Ventromedial Pathways
– Posture and locomotion - originates in brain stem
• The Vestibulospinal tract : head balance, head turning
• The Tectospinal tract: orienting response
Descending Spinal TractsDescending Spinal Tracts
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Descending Spinal TractsDescending Spinal Tracts
• The Ventromedial Pathways
– The Pontine and Medullary Recticulospinal Recticulospinal tract
• Pontine: enhances antigravity reflexes
• Medullary: liberates antigravity muscles from reflex
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Descending Spinal TractsDescending Spinal Tracts
• Summary
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The Planning of Movement by the Cerebral CortexThe Planning of Movement by the Cerebral Cortex• Motor Cortex
– Area 4 and area 6 of the frontal lobe
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The Planning of Movement by the Cerebral CortexThe Planning of Movement by the Cerebral Cortex
• Motor Cortex (Penfield)
– Area 4 = “Primary motor cortex” or “M1”
– Area 6 = “Higher motor area” (Penfield)
• Lateral region Premotor area (PMA)
• Medial region Supplementary motor area (SMA)
• Motor maps in PMA and SMA
• Similar functions; different groups of muscles innervated
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The Planning of Movement by the Cerebral CortexThe Planning of Movement by the Cerebral Cortex• Motor Cortex
– Somatotopic organization of precentral gyrus (like postcentral gyrus)
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The Planning of Movement by the Cerebral CortexThe Planning of Movement by the Cerebral Cortex
• The Contributions of Posterior Parietal and Prefrontal Cortex
– Represent highest levels of motor control
• Decisions made about actions and their outcome
– Area 5: Inputs from areas 3, 1, and 2
– Area 7: Inputs from higher-order visual cortical areas such as MT
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The Planning of Movement by the Cerebral CortexThe Planning of Movement by the Cerebral Cortex
• The Contributions of Posterior Parietal and Prefrontal Cortex (Cont’d)
– Anterior frontal lobes: Abstract thought, decision making and anticipating consequences of action
– Area 6: Actions converted into signals specifying how actions will be performed
– Per Roland Monitored cortical activation accompanying voluntary movement (PET)
• Results supported view of higher order motor planning
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The Contributions of Posterior Parietal and Prefrontal CortexThe Contributions of Posterior Parietal and Prefrontal Cortex
• Neuronal Correlates of Motor Planning
– Evarts:Demonstrated importance of area 6 in planning movement
• “ready”- Parietal and frontal lobes
• “set”- Supplementary and premotor areas
• “go”- Area 6
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The Basal GangliaThe Basal Ganglia
• Basal Ganglia: Selection and initiation of willed movements
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The Basal GangliaThe Basal Ganglia
• Basal ganglia
– Project to the ventral lateral (VLo) nucleus
– Provides major input to area 6
• Cortex
– Projects back to basal ganglia
– Forms a “loop”
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The Basal GangliaThe Basal Ganglia• The Motor Loop:
– Excitatory connection from cortex to putamen
– Cortical activation
• Excites putamen
• Inhibits globus pallidus
• Release VLo from inhibition
– Activity in VLo influences activity in SMA
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The Basal GangliaThe Basal Ganglia
• The Motor Loop (Cont’d)
– Basal Ganglia Disorders
• Parkinson’s disease: Trouble initiating willed movements due to increased inhibition of the thalamus by basal ganglia
• Symptoms: Bradykinesia, akinesia, rigidity and tremors of hand and jaw
• Organic basis: Degeneration of dopaminergic substantia nigra inputs to striatum
• Dopa treatment: Facilitates production of dopamine to increase SMA activity
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The Basal GangliaThe Basal Ganglia
• The Motor Loop (Cont’d)
– Basal Ganglia Disorders (Cont’d)
• Huntington’s disease
• Symptoms: Hyperkinesia, dyskinesia, dementia, impaired cognitive disability, personality disorder
• Hemiballismus: Violent, flinging movement on one side of the body
• Loss of inhibition with loss of neurons in caudate, putamen, globus pallidus
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Initiation of Movement by the Primary Motor CortexInitiation of Movement by the Primary Motor Cortex• Electrical stimulation of area 4
– Contraction of small group of muscles
• The Input-Output Organization of M1
– Betz cells: Pyramidal cells in cortical layer 5
– Two sources of input to Betz cells
• Cortical areas
• Thalamus
• Coding Movement in M1
– Activity from several neurons in M1 encodes force and direction of movement
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Initiation of Movement by the Primary Motor CortexInitiation of Movement by the Primary Motor Cortex• Coding Movement in M1
– Recordings from a single cell in M1 illustrating “direction vector”
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Initiation of Movement by the Primary Motor CortexInitiation of Movement by the Primary Motor Cortex
• Coding Movement in M1(Cont’d)
– Movement of direction encoded by collective activity of neurons
• Motor cortex: Many cells active for every movement
• Activity of each cell: Represents a single “vote”
• Direction of movement: Determined by a tally (and averaging)
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Initiation of Movement by the Primary Motor CortexInitiation of Movement by the Primary Motor Cortex
• Coding Movement in M1(Cont’d)
– Population Vectors
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Control of saccadic eye movements by the Superior ColliculusControl of saccadic eye movements by the Superior Colliculus
• Computational map of Motor ‘error’
• Motor error : Desired eye position – current eye position
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Initiation of Movement by the Primary Motor CortexInitiation of Movement by the Primary Motor Cortex
• The Malleable Motor Map: Experimental rats
– Microstimulation of M1 cortex normally elicits whisker movement
– Cut nerve that supplies whisker muscles
– Microstimulation now causes forelimb movement
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The CerebellumThe Cerebellum
• Function: Sequence of muscle contractions; calibration and coordination.
– Cerebellar lesions
• Ataxia: Uncoordinated and inaccurate movements
• Dysynergia: Decomposition of synergistic multijoint movements
• Dysmetria: Overshoot or undershoot target
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The CerebellumThe Cerebellum
• Anatomy of the Cerebellum
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The CerebellumThe Cerebellum
• Anatomy of the Cerebellum (Cont’d)
– Folia and lobules
– Deep cerebellar nuclei: Cerebellar output
• Relay cerebellar cortical output to brain stem structures
– Vermis: Axial musculature
• Contributes to ventromedial pathways
– Cerebellar hemispheres: limb movements
• Contributes to lateral pathways
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The CerebellumThe Cerebellum• The Motor Loop Through the Lateral Cerebellum
– Calibrated execution of planned, voluntary, multijoint movements
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The CerebellumThe Cerebellum
• The Motor Loop Through the Lateral Cerebellum
– Pontine nuclei
• Axons from layer V pyramidal cells in the sensorimotor cortex form massive projections to pons
– Corticopontocerebellar projection
• 20 times larger than pyramidal tract
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The CerebellumThe Cerebellum
• The Motor Loop Through the Lateral Cerebellum
– Cerebellum- “brain inside”
• Learning
• New motor programs created to ensure smooth movement
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Concluding RemarksConcluding Remarks
• Example of the baseball pitcher
– Walking: Ventromedial pathways
– Ready to pitch
• Neocortex, ventromedial pathways
– Pitch signs and strategy
• Sensory information engages parietal and prefrontal cortex and area 6
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Concluding RemarksConcluding Remarks
• Example of the baseball pitcher (Cont’d)
– Winds and throws
• Increased basal ganglia activity (initiation)
• SMA activity M1 activation
• Corticopontocerebellar pathways Cerebellum
• Cortical input to reticular formation Release of antigravity muscles
• Lateral pathway engages motor neurons action
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