Imaging the neural basis of locomotion.
To investigate the fundamental question of how nervous systems encode, organize, and sequence behaviors, Kato et al. imaged neural activity with cellular resolution across the brain of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Locomotion behavior seems to be continuously represented by cyclical patterns of distributed neural activity that are present even in immobilized animals.
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA. Electronic address: bransonk@janelia.hhmi.org.
Kristin
K
Branson
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA.
Jeremy
J
Freeman
D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*