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Sensory-motor control: a long-awaited behavioral correlate of presynaptic inhibition

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Presynaptic inhibition of cutaneous afferents influences sensory-motor responses in the spinal cord. In-vivo recordings in monkeys now show that this process suppresses the transmission of cutaneous signals generated during volitional movement.

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Figure 1: Key neurons involved in the relay of cutaneous input, via first-order interneurons in the spinal cord, to segmental motor systems and higher sensory systems.

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