Reflex Control of Posture and Movement

Reflex Control of Posture and Movement
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780080861753

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Reflex Control of Posture and Movement

Reflex Control of Posture and Movement

Reflex Control of Posture and Movement
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2024
Genre: Kinesiology
ISBN: 0444800999

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Reflex Control of Posture and Movement

Reflex Control of Posture and Movement
Author: Ragnar Granit,Ottavio Pompeiano
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 827
Release: 1979
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:665964431

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Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture

Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture
Author: Simon C. Gandevia,Uwe Proske,Douglas G. Stuart
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781461507130

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This collection of contributions on the subject of the neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control resulted from a conference held in Cairns, Australia, September 3-6, 2001. While the three of us were attending the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Congress in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1997, we discussed the implications of the next Congress being awarded to New Zealand. We agreed to organise a satellite to this congress in an area of mutual interest -the neuroscience of movement and sensation. Australia has a long-standing and enviable reputation in the field of neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control. Arguably this reached its peak with the award of a Nobel Prize to Sir John Eccles in 1963 for his work on synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. Since that time, the subject of neuroscience has progressed considerably. One advance is the exploitation of knowledge acquired from animal experiments to studies on conscious human subjects. In this development, Australians have achieved international prominence, particularly in the areas of kinaesthesia and movement control. This bias is evident in the choice of subject matter for the conference and, subsequently, this book. It was also decided to assign a whole section to muscle mechanics, a subject that is often left out altogether from conferences on motor control. Cairns is a lovely city and September is a good time to visit it.

Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement

Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement
Author: Jack M. Winters,Patrick E. Crago
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781461221043

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Most routine motor tasks are complex, involving load transmission through out the body, intricate balance, and eye-head-shoulder-hand-torso-leg coor dination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable perturbations, has a long history. This book arose from the Ninth Engineering Foundation Con ference on Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement, held in Deer Creek, Ohio, in June 1996. This unique conference, which has met every 2 to 4 years since the late 1960s, is well known for its informal format that promotes high-level, up-to-date discussions on the key issues in the field. The intent is to capture the high quality ofthe knowledge and discourse that is an integral part of this conference series. The book is organized into ten sections. Section I provides a brief intro duction to the terminology and conceptual foundations of the field of move ment science; it is intended primarily for students. All but two of the re maining nine sections share a common format: (l) a designated section editor; (2) an introductory didactic chapter, solicited from recognized lead ers; and (3) three to six state-of-the-art perspective chapters. Some per spective chapters are followed by commentaries by selected experts that provide balance and insight. Section VI is the largest section, and it con sists of nine perspective chapters without commentaries.

Control of Posture and Locomotion

Control of Posture and Locomotion
Author: R. Stein
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781461345473

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R. B. Stein Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada The impetus for this volume and the conference that gave rise to it was the feeling that studies on motor control had reached a turning point. In recent years, studies on motor units and muscle receptors have become increasingly detailed. Attempts to integrate these studies into quantitative models for the spinal control of posture have appeared and preliminary attempts have been made to include the most direct supraspinal pathways into these models (see for example the chapters by Nashner and Melvill Jones et al. in this volume). Thus, we felt that the time was ripe to summarize these developments in a way which might be useful not only to basic medical scientists, but also to clinicians dealing with disorders of motor control, and to bioengineers attempting to build devices to assist or replace normal control. Over the past few years, computer methods have also made possible increasingly detailed studies of mammalian locomotion, and improved physiological and pharmacological studies have appeared. There seems to be almost universal agreement now that the patterns for locomotion are generated in the spinal cord, and that they can be generated with little, if any, phasic sensory information (see chapters by Grillner and Miller et al. ). This concludes a long controversy on whether chains of reflexes or central circuits generate stepping patterns. The nature of the pattern generators in mammals remains obscure, but invertebrate studies on locomotion have recently made striking advances.

Multisensory Control of Posture

Multisensory Control of Posture
Author: F. Hlavacka,Thomas Mergner
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781461519317

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From recent developments in the rapidly growing area of neuroscience it has become increasingly clear that a simplistic description of brain function as a broad collection of simple input-output relations is quite inadequate. Introspection already tells us that our motor behavior is guided by a complex interplay between many inputs from the outside world and from our internal "milieu," internal models of ourselves and the outside world, memory content, directed attention, volition, and so forth. Also, our motor activity normally involves more than a circumscribed group of muscles, even if we intend to move only one effector organ. For example, a reaching movement or a reorientation of a sensory organ almost invariably requires a pattern of preparatory or assisting activities in other parts of the body, like the ones that maintain the body's equilibrium. The present volume is a summary of the papers presented at the symposium "Sensory Interaction in Posture and Movement Control" that was held at Smolenice Castle near Bratislava, Slovakia, as a Satellite Symposium to the ENA Meeting 1994 in Vienna. The focus of this meeting was not only restricted to the "classical" sensory interactions such as between vestibular and visual signals, or between otolith and semicircular canal inputs. Rather, the symposium tried to consider also the interplay between perception and action, between reflexive and volitional motor acts as well as between sensory driven or self-initi ated motor acts and reafferent inputs.

Brain Mechanisms for the Integration of Posture and Movement

Brain Mechanisms for the Integration of Posture and Movement
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780080494081

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Brain Mechanisms for the Integration of Posture and Movement