Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny

The Circuitry of the Human Spinal Cord

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive review of the corticospinal and spinal contributions to the control of movement in human subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192583
• ISBN-10: 0521192587
• Artikelnr.: 34160746

Autorenporträt

Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology and Rehabilitation at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. General methodology
2. Monosynaptic Ia excitation, homosynaptic depression, and transcortical Ia excitation
3. Fusimotor mechanisms, muscle spindles and their role in the control of movement
4. Recurrent inhibition
5. Reciprocal Ia inhibition
6. Ib pathways
7. Group II pathways
8. Presynaptic inhibition of Ia terminals
9. Cutaneomuscular, withdrawal and flexor reflex afferent ('FRA') responses
10. Propriospinal transmission of descending motor commands
11. Spinal and corticospinal pathways in different movements
12. Spinal and corticospinal pathways in stance and gait
13. Plasticity in spinal and corticospinal pathways
14. Contribution of spinal pathways to the pathophysiology of movement disorders
Index.