Neural Control of Movement

Presented with a choice of evils, most would prefer to be blinded rather than to be unable to move, immobilized in the late stages of Parkinson's disease. Yet in everyday life, as in Neuroscience, vision holds the centre of the stage. The conscious psyche watches a private TV show all day long,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ferrell, W.R. (Editor), Proske, Uwe (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Rhythmic activity patterns of motoneurones and interneurones in the embryonic chick spinal cord
  • Postembryonic maturation of a spinal circuit controlling amphibian swimming behaviour
  • Cerebellar Mechanisms
  • The cerebellum as a predictive model of the motor system: a Smith predictor hypothesis
  • Signalling properties of deep cerebellar nuclei neurones
  • Visual input to the lateral cerebellum
  • Inferior olive and the saccadic neural integrator
  • Comparative Studies
  • Presynaptic gain control in a locust proprioceptor
  • Central and reflex recruitment of crayfish leg motoneurones
  • Primitive role for GAB Aergic reticulospinal neurones in the control of locomotion
  • Neuromodulation and motor pattern generation in the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system
  • Mechanosensory signal processing: impact on and modulation by patterngenerating networks, exemplified in locust flight and walking
  • Enkephalinergic and monoaminergic control of segmental pathways from flexor reflex afferents (FRA)
  • Can the sympathetic nervous system activation contribute to “context-related” modulations of the stretch reflex?
  • Classical conditioning of eyeblink in decerebrate cats and ferrets
  • Locomotion
  • Cellular bases of locomotor behaviour in lamprey: coordination and modulatory control of the spinal circuitry
  • Reflex reversal in the walking systems of mammals and arthropods
  • A locomotor-related “autogenetic” Ib excitation of hind-limb extensor muscles in thecat
  • Modulation of stretch reflexes during behaviour
  • A multiple-level approach to motor pattern generation
  • The status of the premotor areas: evidence from PET scanning
  • Development
  • Organization of spinal locomotor networks and their afferent control inthe neonatal rat
  • Dual control of central pattern generators: neonatal rat spinal cord in vitro
  • Escape and swimming in goldfish: A model system for studying interactions between motor networks
  • Afferent Mechanisms
  • Isolated muscle spindles, their motor innervation and central control
  • Recent developments in the physiology of the mammalian muscle spindles
  • The human muscle spindle and its fusimotor control
  • Mechanisms underlying the excitation of muscle afferents by suxamethonium
  • Quantitative aspects of the use of succinylcholine in the classification of muscle spindle afferents
  • Tendon organ discharges and their central effects during muscle contractions
  • Proprioception
  • Muscle, cutaneous and joint receptors in kinaesthesia
  • Contribution of joint afferents to proprioception and motor control
  • Assessing accuracy of positioning joints and limbs
  • The behaviour of cutaneous and joint afferents in the human hand during finger movements
  • Limitations in the neural control of human thumb and finger flexors
  • Reflexes
  • Fusimotor reflexes from joint and cutaneous afferents
  • Reflex performance of the chronically isolated human spinal cord