title: [Escape Behaviors and Its Underlying Neuronal Circuits].
abstract: Escape behaviors are crucial to survive predator encounters or aversive stimuli. The neural circuits mediating escape behaviors of different animal species have a common framework to trigger extremely fast and robust movement with minimum delay. Thus, the neuronal escape circuits possibly represent functional architectures that perform the most efficient sensory-motor processing in the brain. Here, I review the escape behaviors and underlying neuronal circuits of several invertebrates and fish by focusing on the Mauthner cells, a pair of giant reticulospinal neurons in the hindbrain, that trigger fast escape behavior in goldfish and zebrafish.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Brain Function and Structure, Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University.
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D055724:Electrophysiological Phenomena; D004924:Escape Reaction; D009043:Motor Activity; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*