Control of Human Voluntary Movement
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1994.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. 1994. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6960-8 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.