research overview
- Dr. Bekoff's current research focuses on factors influencing usage of emergency department services by patients with a primary care provider.
- Contact Info
Bekoff, Anne
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Integrative Physiology
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- public health, health disparities, primary care, emergency department usage
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
- Behavior of Embryos 2004
- Development of Motor Behaviour in Chick Embryos. 429-446. 2001
- Sensory-motor experience during the development of motility in chick embryos. 171-191. 2001
- Development of motor patterns in avian embryos: Control of hatching behaviour 2000
- Embryo research. 152-153. 1998
- Development of motor behavior in chick embryos. 191-204. 1995
- Neuroembryology of motor behavior in birds. 125-134. 1994
- Development of location: patterns and trends. 325-329. 1992
- Continuity of pattern generating mechanisms in embryonic and posthatching chicks. 79-86. 1989
- Development of Locomotion: Animal Models. 48-73. 1989
- Enzyme activities in muscles of seasonally acclimatized house finches 1989
- Embryonic motor output and movement patterns: Relationship to postnatal behavior. 191-206. 1988
- Ontogeny of chicken motor behaviors: Evidence for multi-use pattern generating circuitry. 433-453. 1986
- Development of locomotion in vertebrates: A comparative perspective. 57-94. 1985
- Behavioral embryology in birds and mammals: Neuroembryological studies of the development of motor behavior. 152-163. 1981
- Embryonic development of the neural circuitry underlying motor coordination. 134-170. 1981
- A neuroethological approach to the study of the ontogeny of coordinated behavior. 19-41. 1978
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journal article
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Pyridoxine treatment alters embryonic motility in chicks: Implications for the role of proprioception.
Developmental Psychobiology.
271-277.
2015
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Spontaneous embryonic motility: an enduring legacy.
International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience.
155-160.
2001
- Modulation of the walking motor pattern in chicks due to asymmetric loading of the flexor muscles.. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 1070-1070. 2000
- Developmental changes in leg coordination of the chick at embryonic days 9, 11 and 13: uncoupling of ankle movements. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2406-2414. 1999
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Patterns of muscle activity during different behaviors in chicks: implications for neural control.
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology.
1996
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Neuroethological approaches to the study of motor development in chicks: Achievements and challenges.
Developmental Neurobiology.
1486-1505.
1992
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DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT IN CHICKS .2. TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF HINDLIMB MUSCLE SYNERGIES AT EMBRYONIC DAY 10 IN EMBRYOS WITH SPINAL GAP TRANSECTIONS.
Developmental Neurobiology.
420-432.
1992
- Constrained and flexible features of rythmical hindlimb movements in chicks: Kinematic profiles of walking, swimming and airstepping. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 43-66. 1992
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DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT IN CHICKS .1. TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF HINDLIMB MUSCLE SYNERGIES AT EMBRYONIC DAYS 9 AND 10.
Developmental Psychobiology.
763-782.
1990
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A kinematic analysis of hindlimb motility in 9‐ and 10‐day‐old chick embryos.
Developmental Neurobiology.
651-660.
1990
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Neural control of limb coordination.
Experimental Brain Research.
1989
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Sensory control of the initiation of hatching in chicks: Effects of a local anesthetic injected into the neck.
Developmental Psychobiology.
489-495.
1987
- Neural control of limb coordination. I. Comparison of hatching and walking motor output patterns in normal and deafferented chicks. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2320-2330. 1987
- Neural control of hatching: fate of the pattern generator for the leg movements of hatching in post-hatching chicks. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2659-2666. 1984
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Neural control of hatching: Role of neck position in turning on hatching leg movements in post-hatching chicks.
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology.
497-504.
1982
- Embryonic development of motor behavior in chicks. 181-184. 1981
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Interlimb coordination in 20‐day‐old rat fetuses.
Journal of Experimental Zoology.
173-175.
1980
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Prenatal motility and postnatal play: Functional continuity?.
Developmental Psychobiology.
225-228.
1980
- The development of interlimb coordinate during swimming in postnatal rats. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 1-11. 1979
- The ontogeny and organization of comfort behavior in Adelie penguins. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 255-270. 1978
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Physiological properties of dissociated muscle fibres obtained from innervated and denervated adult rat muscle..
The Journal of Physiology.
25-40.
1977
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Acetylcholine Hot Spots: Development on Myotubes Cultured from Aneural Limb Buds.
Science.
915-917.
1976
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Ontogeny of leg motor output in the chick embryo: A neural analysis.
Brain Research.
271-291.
1976
- Coordinated motor output in the hindlimb of the 7-day chick embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 1245-1248. 1975
- Feeding territories of South Polar skuas at Cape Crozier. 121-122. 1975
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Pyridoxine treatment alters embryonic motility in chicks: Implications for the role of proprioception.
Developmental Psychobiology.
271-277.
2015
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Washington University 1974
- B.A., Smith College 1969