The circuitry of the human spinal cord : spinal and corticospinal mechanisms of movement / Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny, David Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierrot-Deseilligny, Emmanuel, author.

Burke, D. J. (David James), 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinal cord.

Spinal cord--Diseases.

Motor ability.

Movement disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 606 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

General methodology

Monosynaptic Ia excitation, homosynaptic depression and transcortical Ia excitation

Fusimotor mechanisms, muscle spindles and their role in the control of movement

Recurrent inhibition

Reciprocal Ia inhibition

Ib pathways

Group II pathways

Presynaptic inhibition of Ia terminals

Cutaneomuscular, withdrawal and flexor reflex afferent ('FRA') responses

Propriospinal transmission of descending motor commands

Spinal and corticospinal pathways in different movements

Spinal and corticospinal pathways in stance and gait

Plasticity in spinal and corticospinal pathways

Contribution of spinal pathways to the pathophysiology of movement disorders.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22316-4

1-139-36528-2

1-280-64718-3

9786613633231

1-139-37775-2

1-139-02672-0

1-139-37489-3

1-139-37632-2

1-139-37090-1

1-139-37918-6

OCLC:

794327690