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Stability and Homeostasis in Small Network Central Pattern Generators

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All animals contain circuits in their central nervous system that produce rhythmic activity. The circuits, often referred to as central pattern generators (CPGs), typically underlie vital activities or behaviors, such as locomotion, respiration, heartbeat, digestion, circadian activity, etc. (Marder et al. 2005). By the very nature of these behaviors, they require a certain degree of stability of the individual parameters or features that characterize the activity to ensure the survival of the individual. In patterned activity, a key activity feature is the relative timing of activation (phase) of different components of the network. On the other hand, the nervous system is best known for its plasticity and capacity to change in response to many types of inputs. Thus, how stability of activity is ensured is the subject of intense research. In order to attain a stable state, the neurons in these circuits need mechanisms that monitor the state of the system to homeostatically...

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Golowasch, J. (2014). Stability and Homeostasis in Small Network Central Pattern Generators. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_466-1

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