Overview

In the neurosciences many advances are currently being made in our understanding of both invertebrate and vertebrate (including human) nervous systems, but workers in one field do not always appreciate developments in the other. However, an increasing number of vertebrate physiologists are now coming to realize the importance of work carried out on invertebrate systems and the similarity of organization of, for example, the motor control systems of arthropods and vertebrates. This book brings together these two fields to review our current knowledge of the control of movement in the animal kingdom. This book should be of interest to reaserchers in the field of zoology, neurobiology and physiology.

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Author:   Jon Barnes ,  Margaret Gladden
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9780709932772

ISBN 10:   0709932774
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   December 1985
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Organisation of Motor Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Central feedback loops and some implications for motor control.- 3 Neural control of vertebrate locomotion-central mechanisms and reflex interaction with special reference to the cat.- 4 Generation of behaviour: the orchestration hypothesis.- 5 Convergence of several sensory modalities in motor control.- 6 Feedback control of an escape behaviour.- Section 2: Central Control of Sense Organ Excitability.- 7 Introduction.- 8 Intrafusal muscle fibres in the cat and their motor control.- 9 How do crabs control their muscle receptors?.- Section 3: Afferent Input During Normal Movements.- 10 Introduction.- 11 What the cat's hind limb tells the cat's spinal cord.- 12 Proprioceptive feedback and the control of cockroach walking.- Section 4: Reflexes.- 13 Introduction.- 14 Stretch reflexes in man: the significance of tendon compliance.- 15 The synaptic basis for integration of local reflexes in the locust.- Section 5: The Control of Equilibrium.- 16 Introduction.- 17 Control of eye-head coordination by brain stem neurones.- 18 Multisensory interactions in the crustacean equilibrium system.- Section 6: The Control of Movement.- 19 Introduction.- 20 Are there central pattern generators for walking and flight in insects?.- 21 The role of movement-related feedback in the control of locomotion in fish and lamprey.- 22 How locusts fly straight.- 23 Interactions of segmental and suprasegmental inputs with the spinal pattern generator of locomotion.- 24 Stepping reflexes and the sensory control of walking in Crustacea.- Section 7: Feedback and Motor Control in Man.- 25 Introduction.- 26 Proprioceptive activity from human finger muscles.- 27 Human long-latency stretch reflexes - a new role for the secondary ending of the muscle spindle?.- 28 Phase dependent step adaptations during human locomotion.- 29 Abnormal feedback and movement disorders in man, with particular reference to cortical myoclonus.- Author index.

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