1 2 3 Cannabinoids reveal separate controls for whisking amplitude and 4 timing in rats 5 6

1 RESEARCH ARTICLE 1 2 3 Cannabinoids reveal separate controls for whisking amplitude and 4 timing in rats 5 6 Maciej Dominik Pietr, Per Magne Knutsen, David I. Shore, Ehud Ahissar and Zvi Vogel 7 8 1 Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel, 2 9 Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, 3 10 Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, 11 Ontario, Canada, and 4 The Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Center for the Biology of Addictive 12 Diseases, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 13 14 15 Manuscript Information: 16 Running title: Cannabinoids and whisking control 17 Pages 30 18 Figures 7 (including 2 color) 19 Tables None 20 Character count 33,473 (excluding references and legends) 21 References 90 22 23 24 Corresponding Author: 25 Dr. Per Magne Knutsen 26 Department of Physics 27 University of California, San Diego 28 9500 Gilman Drive 29 La Jolla, California 92093-0374 30 31 Tel: +1-858-405-2868 32 Fax: +1-858-534-7697 33 Email: [email protected] 34 35 36 Footnotes 37 Abbreviations. TG, trigeminal ganglion; TN, trigeminal nuclei; Vpm, ventroposteromedial 38 complex; Pom, posteromedial thalamic nucleus; S1, primary somatosensory cortex; M1, primary 39 motor cortex; SC, superior colliculus; Pn, pontine nuclei; Cb, cerebellum; IO, inferior olive; Rn, 40 red nucleus; Fn, lateral facial nucleus; BG, basal ganglia 41 42 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (September 15, 2010). doi:10.1152/jn.01039.2009