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This is so cool!
This is so cool!
Of course Ted Bullock wrote a paper about sloth motor neurons
There’s a reason sloths move slowly! Apparently a combination of slow motor neuron activity and decreased axon conduction velocity, enhanced inhibition and slow muscle physiology act in combination to generate slow movements. Check out this study: https://
Ever wonder why sloths are slow? Is it their muscles? Slow motor neurons & axons? Too much inhibition? Apparently all of these things act in concert to slow nervous system dynamics, but that’s not enough to explain it. Check out this paper by Ted Bullo