TY - JOUR PY - 2015// TI - Escape behaviors and its underlying neuronal circuits JO - Brain and nerve A1 - Oda, Yoichi SP - 1173 EP - 1183 VL - 67 IS - 10 N2 - 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.

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LA - ja SN - 1881-6096 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.11477/mf.1416200281 ID - ref1 ER -