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Preferential relation of pallidal neurons to ballistic movements
1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, McDonnell Center for the Study of Higher Brain Function, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Brain Research
|August 11, 1987
Abstract:
The activity of single globus pallidus neurons was recorded in monkeys trained to perform 5 different wrist movement tasks that were designed to dissociate several modes of movement. Most neurons had activity changes related to visually guided movements and not to self-paced movements. The greatest activity changes were seen during prompt, ballistic, step-tracking movements and several neurons were related only to ballistic movements.