PSY2061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Basal Ganglia, Premotor Cortex, Brainstem
Lecture 6 continued
Cerebellum
•Inputs from cortex, brain stem, spinal cord
•Outputs to spinal cord, motor cortex. oculomotor nuclei
•Integration
•Comparator!
- efferent copy from M1!
- sensory consequences from periphery!
- fine tuning
•Well- learned ‘automatic’ movements
Primary Motor Cortex (M1)
•Conscious, voluntary movement
•Early stage of learning
•Distal-contralateral
•Proximal-bilateral
Indirect Pathways via Brain Stem
•Medial pathways!
- vestibulo - spinal - balance and posture!
- reticulo - spinal - posture, reflex modulation !
- tecto - spinal - coordination of head & eye movements
•Lateral pathways!
- rubro- spinal -distal musculature
•Aminergic pathways!
-arousal, nonspecific - regulates sensitivity of descending commands (gain)
Brain Stem
•physiological monitoring!
- arousal
•regulates descending commands!
- sensitivity (gain)
CONCEPT 4: The neural control of movement can be understood as both hierarchal and
parallel
Document Summary
Cerebellum: inputs from cortex, brain stem, spinal cord, outputs to spinal cord, motor cortex. oculomotor nuclei, integration, comparator. Ne tuning: well- learned automatic" movements. Primary motor cortex (m1: conscious, voluntary movement, early stage of learning, distal-contralateral, proximal-bilateral. Indirect pathways via brain stem: medial pathways. Vestibulo - spinal - balance and posture. Reticulo - spinal - posture, re ex modulation. Tecto - spinal - coordination of head & eye movements: lateral pathways. Rubro- spinal -distal musculature: aminergic pathways. Arousal, nonspeci c - regulates sensitivity of descending commands (gain) Concept 4: the neural control of movement can be understood as both hierarchal and parallel. Hierarchal: spinal cord > pattern generation, brain stem > controller, relay, cortex > controller. Parallell: direct connections between cx and basal ganglia, cerebellum, spinal cord, direct and indirect connections to mns. Translating goal into movement = competitive process. All areas promote movement, but relative contribution varies as a function of task.