A collection of old and recent papers that are studying the control of locomotion from the forebrain all the way down to the spinal cord.
Editor Nicolas Josset
Long-Distance Descending Spinal Neurons Ensure Quadrupedal Locomotor Stability (2016)
Ludwig Ruder, Aya Takeoka, Silvia Arber
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.032
Feb 18, 2019
Cell-Type-Specific Control of Brainstem Locomotor Circuits by Basal Ganglia (2016)
Thomas K. Roseberry, A. Moses Lee, Arnaud L. Lalive, Linda Wilbrecht, Antonello Bonci, Anatol C. Kreitzer
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.037
Feb 18, 2019
Sleep and Motor Control by a Basal Ganglia Circuit (2018)
Danqian Liu, Chenyan Ma, Weitong Zheng, Yuanyuan Yao, Yang Dan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/405324
Feb 18, 2019
A subcortical inhibitory signal for behavioral arrest in the thalamus (2015)
Kristóf Giber, Marco A Diana, Viktor Plattner, Guillaume P Dugué, Hajnalka Bokor, Charly V Rousseau, Zsófia Maglóczky, László Havas, Balázs Hangya, Hendrik Wildner, Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, Stéphane Dieudonné, László Acsády
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3951
Feb 18, 2019
Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour (2016)
Philip Tovote, Maria Soledad Esposito, Paolo Botta, Fabrice Chaudun, Jonathan P. Fadok, Milica Markovic, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Charu Ramakrishnan, Lief Fenno, Karl Deisseroth, Cyril Herry, Silvia Arber, Andreas Lüthi
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17996
Feb 18, 2019
Locomotor speed control circuits in the caudal brainstem (2017)
Paolo Capelli, Chiara Pivetta, Maria Soledad Esposito, Silvia Arber
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature24064
Feb 18, 2019 - Extremely thorough paper dissecting the different parts of the lower brainstem and studying their role in initiation and stopping of locomotion.
Behavioral arrest: in search of the neural control system (2001)
W.R Klemm
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0301-0082(01)00016-8
Feb 18, 2019 - Although a bit dated now, a very detailed introduction and review on the scarcely studied arrest of locomotion.