title: A cortical motor region that represents the cutaneous back muscles in the macaque monkey.
abstract: A cortical motor region that represented the cutaneous muscles on the back was identified on the medial wall of the frontal lobe in the macaque monkey. In this region, neurons responded to somatosensory stimuli such as light touch or squeezing of the back skin, and intracortical microstimulation elicited contraction of the back skin. Such a region was located primarily on the dorsal bank of the cingulate sulcus, corresponding to the dorsal cingulate motor area.
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akazawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tokuno
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nambu
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hamada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ikeuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imanishi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hatanaka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001415:Back; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005260:Female; D008251:Macaca; D008297:Male; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena