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The circuitry of the human spinal cord : its role in motor control and movement disorders / Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny and David Burke.

Title
The circuitry of the human spinal cord : its role in motor control and movement disorders / Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny and David Burke.
Author
Pierrot-Deseilligny, Emmanuel
Publication
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.

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  • Burke, David C.
  • Burke, D. J. (David James), 1944-
Description
xxii, 642 p. : ill.,; 26 cm.
Summary
Studies of human movement have proliferated in recent years, and there have been many studies of spinal pathways in humans, their role in movement, and their dysfunction in neurological disorders. This reference surveys the literature related to the control of spinal cord circuits in human subjects, showing how they can be studied, their role in normal movement, and how they malfunction in disease states. Chapters are highly illustrated and consistently organized, reviewing, for each pathway, the experimental background, methodology, organisation and control, role during motor tasks, and changes in patients with CNS lesions.
Subject
  • Spinal Cord
  • Motor Activity
  • Movement Disorders
  • Spinal Cord Diseases
  • Spinal cord
  • Spinal cord > Diseases
  • Motor ability
  • Movement disorders
  • Motor Skills
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. General methodology -- Ch. 2. Monosynaptic Ia excitation and post-activation depression -- Ch. 3. Muscle spindles and fusimotor drive: microneurography and other techniques -- Ch. 4. Recurrent inhibition -- Ch. 5. Reciprocal Ia inhibition -- Ch. 6. Ib pathways -- Ch. 7. Group Ii pathways -- Ch. 8. Presynaptic inhibition of Ia terminals -- Ch. 9. Cutaneomuscular, withdrawal and flexor reflex afferent responses -- Ch. 10. Propriospinal relay for descending motor commands -- Ch. 11. Involvement of spinal pathways in different motor tasks -- Ch. 12. The pathophysiology of spasticity and parkinsonian rigidity.
ISBN
  • 0521825814 (hardback)
  • 9780521825818
OCLC
61301547
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library