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    Demo: Electrical measurement of muscle activity
    Video Clips
    A live recording of muscle activity from Dr. Jessell's biceps and triceps muscles.
    Muscle activity during walking and hopping
    Video Clips
    Electrical activity recorded from the leg muscles reveals different patterns of activation during different gaits.
    Spinocerebellar Ataxia Case Study
    Video Clips
    Dr. Huda Zoghbi interviews Milan Cloud, a patient who has inherited the neurological disorder spinocerebellar ataxia 1, or SCA1.
    Marathon Mouse
    Video Clips
    Dr. Ronald Evans discusses the so-called "marathon" mouse, with a mutation in the PPAR-gamma gene, and its performance on a treadmill relative to a normal mouse.
    Stem Cells and the End of Aging
    Lectures
    Finding factors to reverse age-related loss of cell maintenance, and some examples of stem cell therapies.
    Plan of Action: How the Spinal Cord Controls Movement
    Lectures
    Understanding the neural circuits in the spinal cord that control movement.
    Biodiversity at a Snail's Pace
    Lectures
    Cone snails have evolved many different toxins for different uses. Total molecular biodiversity may number in the millions.
    Repellant ephrin signals guide limb innervations
    Animation
    The growth cone of a neuron avoids repellant molecules and navigates to innervate the appropriate muscle.
    A Taser causes rigid paralysis
    Video Clips
    A Taser hyperexcites the nervous system to cause a rigid immobilization of its target.
    Demo: Touching thumb to fingers with proprioception
    Video Clips
    Proprioceptive feedback makes it easy to touch one's thumb to one's fingers without looking.
    Walking versus hopping
    Video Clips
    In a giraffe's walk, left and right limbs move alternately, while in a kangaroo's hop, opposing limbs move together.
    Without proprioception, raising a mug is difficult
    Video Clips
    A person with a disease that kills proprioceptive neurons has severe problems with the simplest of movements.