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Motor System Disorders, Part I [electronic resource] : Normal Physiology and Function and Neuromuscular Disorders.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Younger, David S.
- Series:
- Issn Series.
- Issn Series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (828 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Elsevier, 2023.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Motor System Disorders, Part I: Normal Physiology and Function and Neuromuscular Disorders
- Copyright
- Handbook of Clinical Neurology 3rd Series
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Contents
- Section 1: Normal physiology and function
- Chapter 1: Skeletal muscle structure, physiology, and function
- Introduction
- Skeletal Muscle Structure
- Contractile Mechanisms
- Muscle Fiber Types
- Calcium Activation of Contraction
- Skeletal Muscle Function
- Neuromuscular Junction Structure and Development
- Neurotransmission
- Motor Unit Properties
- Motor Unit Recruitment
- References
- Chapter 2: Upper and lower motor neuron neurophysiology and motor control
- Functional Motor Systems in Brain and Spinal Cord
- Evolution of the Motor System
- Motor Cortex
- Organization and function
- Local circuitries of the primary motor cortex are layer and cell-type specific
- Sensory feedback
- Force and speed control
- Motor learning
- Motor program
- Mirror neuron system
- Spinal Cord
- Spinal descending motor pathways-Corticospinal tract
- Motor unit activity
- Spinal sensory input
- Local functions of the spinal cord
- The Cerebellum
- The Lower Motor Neuron System
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Vestibular motor control
- Overview
- Vestibular Motor Control: Neuronal Coding in Alert Animals
- Nonlinear & Spike Timing Codes: Implications for Motor Control and the Restoration of Function
- The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
- Adaptation and compensation of the VOR
- Vestibulospinal Reflex Pathways
- Adaptation and compensation of postural reflexes
- The Vestibular Cerebellum: Internal Models of Externally-Applied and Active Self-Motion
- Flocculus and ventral paraflocculus
- Anterior vermis (lobules I-V)
- Nodulus/uvula of the posterior cerebellar vermis
- Compensation and Extra-Vestibular Sensory Substitution in Central Pathways: Implications for Motor Control
- The unmasking of extra-vestibular information in early vestibular pathways
- Cerebellar-dependent mechanisms for vestibular motor compensation
- Voluntary Behavior: Steering, Reaching and Navigation
- Reaching
- Steering and navigation
- Chapter 4: Autonomic failure: Clinicopathologic, physiologic, and genetic aspects
- Overview
- Historical background
- Components of the autonomic nervous system
- Sympathetic noradrenergic system
- Sympathetic cholinergic system
- Parasympathetic cholinergic system
- Sympathetic adrenergic system
- Parasympathetic and sympathetic outflow
- Sympathetic organization and output
- Parasympathetic organization and output
- Autonomic Control of Bladder, Bowel and Sexual Function
- Neuropathologic Characterization
- Sympathetic ganglia
- Parasympathetic ganglia
- The aging autonomic nervous system
- Baroreflexes, autonomic, and baroreceptor failure
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Neurodegenerative Autonomic Failure
- Other Format:
- Print version: Younger, David S. Motor System Disorders, Part I
- ISBN:
- 9780323958547
- 0323958540
- OCLC:
- 1393308730
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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