Control of Human Voluntary Movement - rothwell, john.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994)
1 Introduction: Plans, strategies and actions -- 1.1 Categories of muscles -- 1.2 Problems of moving -- 1.3 A legacy -- 2 Mechanical properties of muscles -- 2.1 Review of muscle anatomy -- 2.2 Mechanical properties of muscle -- 2.3 Behaviour of isolated muscle stimulated at subtetanic rates -- 2.4 Muscle mechanics in intact humans -- 2.5 Effects of muscle properties on control of movement -- 2.6 A theory of movement control which makes use of the mechanical properties of muscle -- 3 The motor unit -- 3.1 The concept of the motor unit -- 3.2 Twitch and tonic muscle fibres -- 3.3 Physiological investigation of the motor unit -- 3.4 Histochemical and biochemical classification of muscle fibres -- 3.5 Some electrophysiological properties of motoneurones -- 3.6 Control of motor units and their recruitment order -- 3.7 The study of motor units in human physiology -- 3.8 Pathophysiology of the motor unit -- 4 Proprioceptors in muscles, joints and skin -- 4.1 Muscle receptors: I. The muscle spindle -- 4.2 Muscle receptors: II. Golgi tendon organs -- 4.3 Muscle receptors: III. Other types of ending -- 4.4 Joint receptors -- 4.5 Cutaneous mechanoreceptors -- 4.6 Recordings from human afferent nerve fibres -- 5 Reflex pathways in the spinal cord -- 5.1 Classification of nerve fibres -- 5.2 Anatomy of group I and II projections of the spinal cord -- 5.3 Reflex pathways from Ia muscle spindle afferents -- 5.4 Reflex pathways from Ib tendon organ afferents -- 5.5 Reflex pathways from group II muscle afferents and 'flexor reflex afferents' -- 5.6 The Renshaw cell -- 5.7 Presynaptic inhibition -- 6 Investigating reflex pathways and their function -- 6.1 The tendon jerk -- 6.2 The H-reflex -- 6.3 Long latency stretch reflexes -- 6.4 Vibration reflexes -- 6.5 The servo hypothesis and ?-? coactivation -- 6.6 Investigation of activity in other reflex pathways using the H-reflex -- 6.7 Cutaneous reflexes -- 6.8 Pathophysiology of spinal reflexes -- 6.9 Movement without reflexes: deafferentation -- 7 Ascending and descending pathways of the spinal cord -- 7.1 Ascending pathways -- 7.2 Descending motor pathways -- 7.3 Summary of descending pathways -- 7.4 Investigating descending motor pathways in humans -- 8 Posture -- 8.1 The vestibular system -- 8.2 Quiet stance -- 8.3 Postural reflexes -- 8.4 Postural reflexes described in animals -- 8.5 Postural adjustments produced by voluntary movement -- 9 Cerebral cortex -- 9.1 Structure of cerebral cortex -- 9.2 Frontal motor areas of cortex -- 9.3 Electrical stimulation of the motor areas -- 9.4 Electrophysiology of the corticospinal projection -- 9.5 Sensory input to motor cortex -- 9.6 Non-primary motor areas -- 9.7 Lesions of descending pathways in humans and monkeys -- 9.8 Physiology and pathophysiology of human motor areas -- 10 The cerebellum -- 10.1 Cerebellar anatomy -- 10.2 Circuitry of the cerebellar cortex -- 10.3 Efferent pathways of the cerebellum -- 10.4 Electrophysiological studies of the cerebellum -- 10.5 Effects of cerebellar lesions -- 10.6 Adaptation and learning -- 10.7 Theories of cerebellar function -- 10.8 Studies of cerebellar dysfunction in humans -- 11 The basal ganglia -- 11.1 Anatomy -- 11.2 Electrophysiological recordings from behaving animals -- 11.3 Effects of lesions of the basal ganglia -- 11.4 Models of basal ganglia disease in humans -- 11.5 Pathophysiology of diseases of the basal ganglia in humans.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Neurology .; Neurosciences; Neurology