Mammalian Circuits Underlying Touch Sensation
Conference - Ashburn, VA, United States
Recent advances in molecular genetics, optogenetics, and neuroimaging are bringing us closer to revealing the logic and function of neural circuits underlying our sense of touch. This meeting will focus on mammalian low-threshold mechanoreceptors (LTMRs) and their associated neural circuits within the spinal cord, brain stem and cortex that underlie tactile perception, object and form recognition, and the affective component of touch. Topics will include: functions of LTMR subtypes; tools for visualizing and manipulating LTMRs; functional organization of LTMR endings; identification of postsynaptic targets of LTMRs; organization of interneurons and projection neurons of the spinal cord dorsal horn; organization of somatosensory brain stem nuclei; and model systems and behavioral assays for understanding the roles of LTMR afferents in tactile sensation. We will bring together molecular geneticists, physiologists and behavioral scientists using rodent, human, and non-human primates model systems, with the goal of revealing the principles and core logic of mammalian tactile circuitry.
(Courtesy of Tendon organ model, Sensory Systems/Somatosensory System, via Wikibooks, en.wikibooks.org)
Mammalian Circuits Underlying Touch Sensation
September 22, 2013 - September 25, 2013
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, US
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