Venue : Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Salif Komi
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Copenhagen (Berg lab)
Invited by Fabien Wagner (IMN)
Title
Unravelling the dynamics of the spinal control of locomotion
Abstract
Mammalian locomotion relies in great part on networks located in the spinal cord, which can autonomously generate rhythms and patterns. However, few, if any, direct observations of the activity of a large number of spinal neurons exist in freely behaving mammals. For these reasons, our understanding of the spinal neuronal dynamics at play during movement remains poor and the theoretical constructs meant to describe them, incomplete. In this short seminar, I will present our most recent computational and experimental results on the dynamics of rats lumbar spinal networks while they engage in volitional locomotion.