its role in motor control and movement disorders /
First Statement of Responsibility
Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny and David Burke
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxii, 642 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill., ;
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26 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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General methodology -- Monosynaptic Ia excitation and post-activation depression -- Muscle spindles and fusimotor drive: microneurography and other techniques -- Recurrent inhibition -- Reciprocal Ia inhibition -- Ib pathways -- Group II pathways -- Presynaptic inhibition of Ia terminals -- Cutaneomuscular, withdrawal and flexor reflex afferent responses -- Propriospinal relay for descending motor commands -- Involvement of spinal pathways in different motor tasks -- Pathophysiology of spasticity and parkinsonian rigidity