Corticospinal function and voluntary movement

This is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the regions of the brain which control the performance of skilled voluntary movements, especially the accurate and precise control of the use of the fingers and the hand by monkeys and humans. The significance of recent and clinical observations...

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Main Author: Porter, Robert
Other Authors: Lemon, Roger
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1993, 1993
Series:Monographs of the Physiological Society / Monographs of the Physiological Society
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the regions of the brain which control the performance of skilled voluntary movements, especially the accurate and precise control of the use of the fingers and the hand by monkeys and humans. The significance of recent and clinical observations concerning the details of the cortico-cortical connections which contribute to the determination of these functions is discussed
Physical Description:xviii, 428 p. ill
ISBN:9780191724404
0191724408