The Circuitry of the Human Spinal Cord
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The Circuitry of the Human Spinal Cord

Spinal and Corticospinal Mechanisms of Movement

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eBook - PDF

The Circuitry of the Human Spinal Cord

Spinal and Corticospinal Mechanisms of Movement

About this book

Studies of human movement have proliferated in recent years. This greatly expanded and thoroughly updated reference surveys the literature on the corticospinal control of spinal cord circuits in human subjects, showing how different circuits can be studied, their role in normal movement and how they malfunction in disease states. Chapters are highly illustrated and consistently organised, reviewing, for each pathway, the experimental background, methodology, organisation and control, role during motor tasks and changes in patients with CNS lesions. Each chapter concludes with a helpful résumé that can be used independently of the main text to provide practical guidance for clinical studies. The final four chapters bring together the changes in transmission in spinal and corticospinal pathways during movement and how they contribute to the desired movement. This book is essential reading for research workers and clinicians involved in the study, treatment and rehabilitation of movement disorders.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE CIRCUITRY OF THE HUMAN SPINAL CORD: SPINAL AND CORTICOSPINAL MECHANISMS OF MOVEMENT
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. Abbreviations
  9. 1: General Methodology
  10. 2: Monosynaptic Ia Excitation, Homosynaptic Depression and Transcortical Ia Excitation
  11. 3: Fusimotor Mechanisms, Muscle Spindles and Their Role in the Control of Movement
  12. 4: Recurrent Inhibition
  13. 5: Reciprocal Ia Inhibition
  14. 6: Ib Pathways
  15. 7: Group II Pathways
  16. 8: Presynaptic Inhibition of Ia Terminals
  17. 9: Cutaneomuscular, Withdrawal and Flexor Reflex Afferent (‘FRA’) Responses
  18. 10: Propriospinal Transmission of Descending Motor Commands
  19. 11: Spinal and Corticospinal Pathways in Different Movements
  20. 12: Spinal and Corticospinal Pathways in Stance and Gait
  21. 13: Plasticity in Spinal and Corticospinal Pathways
  22. 14: Contribution of Spinal Pathways to the Pathophysiology of Movement Disorders
  23. Index