Month: May 2010

Yesterday my duties in the lab entailed the following:

2) In a behaving macaque, verified correlational-linkage between a pre-central cortical neuron and wrist flexor and extensor muscles.  (1.5 hours)

3) In a behaving macaque, operantly conditioned co- and reciprocal-activation of a cortico-motoneuronal cell and two of its target muscles.  (2.5 hours)

4)  Using pulses of behaviorally-reinforcing stimulation triggered from action potentials of the same cortico-motoneuronal cell, operantly conditioned elevated cell firing of that neuron, in a behaving macaque.  (3 hours)

5)  Delivered a continuous train of 5 Hz stimulation to the reward site to test post-stimulus activation of the conditioned cortical neuron.  (0.2 hours)

6) Continued corticomotoneuronal spike-triggered spinal stimulation conditioning to test for feature-changes peri-spike averages of electromyography.  (0.2 hours)

7)  Setup overnight corticomotoneuronal spike-triggered simulation of nucleus accumbens to potentially condition elevated activation of the triggering cortical neuron.  (1 hour)