Sensory Symphonies: How Excitatory Spinal Cord Modules Orchestrate Behavior

Mark A Gradwell; Victoria E Abraira

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.12.012

Sensory Symphonies: How Excitatory Spinal Cord Modules Orchestrate Behavior

Neuron. 2021 Jan 6;109(1):3-5. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.12.012.

Authors

Mark A Gradwell¹, Victoria E Abraira²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Electronic address: mark.gradwell@rutgers.edu.
² Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Electronic address: victoria.abraira@rutgers.edu.

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Gatto et al. (2021) demonstrate that tactile reflexes are driven by excitatory modules defined by location, while Peirs et al. (2021) show that the circuits implicated in the conversion of touch to pain are defined by the nature of the injury.

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Humans
Neurons
Pain
Reflex*
Spinal Cord*
Touch

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