Title | Control of Posture and Locomotion [electronic resource] / edited by R. B. Stein, K. G. Pearson, R. S. Smith, J. B. Redford |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1973 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4547-3 |
Descript | XIII, 635 p. online resource |
I: Motor Units and Muscle Spindles -- Demand and Accomplishment in Voluntary Movement -- Motoneurone Properties and Motor Control -- Functional Specialization in the Motor Unit Population of Cat Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle -- Somatotopic Connectivity or Species Connectivity? -- Physiological Estimates of the Numbers and Sizes of Motor Units in Man -- Contractile and Electrical Properties of Normal and Modified Human Motor Units -- Crustacean Motor Units -- Skeletomotor and Fusimotor Organization in Amphibians -- Evidence for Common Innervation of Bag and Chain Muscle Fibres in Cat Spindles -- Systems Approach to the Study of Muscle Spindles -- Non-Linear Behaviour of Spindle Receptors -- Discussion Summary -- Discussion Summary -- Discussion Papers -- A Third Mode of Repetitive Firing: Self-Regenerative Firing Due to Large Delayed Depolarizations -- Fatigability of Medial Gastrocnemius Motor Units in the Cat -- Motor Fields of Precentral Cells Elicited by Operant Reinforcement of Unit Activity -- Neck Muscle and Extraocular Receptors and Their Relationship to the Tectospinal Tract -- II: Control of Posture -- Postural Adaptation. The Nature of Adaptive Mechanisms in the Human Motor System -- The Significance of Intramuscular Receptors in Load Compensation During Voluntary Contractions in Man -- A Critique of the Hypothesis that the Spindle Secondary Endings Contribute Excitation to the Stretch Reflex -- The Stretch Reflex Response to Movement of the Human Elbow Joint -- The Continuity of Movements -- Postural Control: A Quantitative Study of Nervous System Functions in the Dog -- Vestibular and Reflex Control of Normal Standing -- A Cerebello-Thalamo-Cortical Pathway Controlling Fusimotor Activity -- The Supplementary Motor Area โ A Control System for Posture ? -- Loading Reflexes During Two Types of Voluntary Muscle Contractions -- Control of Postural Reactions in Man: The Initiation of Gait -- Discussion Summary -- Discussion Summary -- Discussion Papers -- A Consideration of Stretch and Vibration Data in Relation to the Tonic Stretch Reflex -- Reflex and Non-Reflex Stiffness of Soleus Muscle in the Cat -- Effects of Secondary Muscle Spindle Afferent Discharge on Extensor Motoneurones in the Decerebrate Cat -- The Bases of Tremor During a Maintained Posture -- Compensation of Postural Control by Squirrel Monkeys Following Dorsal Column Lesions -- Proposal for Mode of Action of Anticholinergic Drugs Used in Parkinsonโs Disease -- III: Control of Locomotion -- Control of Motor Output -- Neuronal Organization and Ontogeny in the Lobster Swimmeret System -- Bursting Mechanisms in Molluskan Locomotion -- Crustacean Walking -- Nervous Control of Walking in the Cockroach -- Locomotion in the Spinal Cat -- Time Constraints for Inter-Limb Co-ordination in the Cat During Unrestrained Locomotion -- The Function of Long Propriospinal Pathways in the Co-ordination of Quadrupedal Stepping in the Cat -- Eighth Nerve Contributions to the Synthesis of Locomotor Control -- EMG of Locomotion in Gorilla and Man -- Discussion Summary -- Discussion Summary -- Discussion Papers -- The Relationship of Interlimb Phase to Oscillator Activity Gradients in Crayfish -- Gastrocnemius Muscle Activity in Human Locomotion -- Contributors