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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of higher-order motor disorders. It introduces new concepts emerging from basic neurosciences and shows how they have impacted on the field of cognitive motor control and led to new vistas for the understanding of Higher-order Motor Disorders far beyond the traditional field of topological diagnosis. It describes in detail a wide range of clinical disorders including those of bimanual co-ordination, apraxia and sensorimotor transformation deficits, motor neglect, anarchic hand syndrome, imitation and utilisation behaviours, action motivational and action monitoring disorders, as well as new approaches to motor cortex plasticity and reorganisation and rehabilitation of complex movement problems. The book reviews the topic, starting with a description of the neuroanatomical, neurobiological and cognitive basis of normal motor behaviours, before moving on to cover the clinical features of the disordered states. The final chapters cover the issues of plasticity and recovery, pharmacological treatments and rehabilitation. This volume will stimulate research and foster new insights into cognitive and motivational motor disorders. With expert contributions from the major international centres in Europe and the Americas his book gives a truly new framework for a complex and confusing field.

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Author:   Hans-Joachim Freund (, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany) ,  Marc Jeannerod (, Professor in Physiology, University of Lyon, France) ,  Mark Hallett (, Chief, Motor Control Section, National Institute of Health, Bethesda) ,  Ramon Leiguarda (, Chairman Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.008kg
ISBN:  

9780198525769

ISBN 10:   0198525761
Pages:   526
Publication Date:   31 March 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Neuroanatomical, Neurobiological and Cognitive Basis 1: Stefan Geye & Karl Zilles: Functional neuroanatomy of the human motor cortex 2: Roberto Caminiti, Stefano Ferraina, Alejandra Battaglia-Meyer, Massimo Mascaro & Yves Burnod: Parallel parietofrontal circuits for sensorimotor transformation 3: M. Desmurget, F. Baraduc & E. Guigon: The planning and control of reaching and grasping movements 4: Dris Boussaoud: The premotor cortex: from attention to intention 5: Gunther Knoblich & Wolfgang Prinz: Linking perception and action: an ideomotor approach 6: Jeremy D. Schmahmann: Cerebellar motor and cognitive functions 7: Mark Hallett: Motor learning 8: Giacomo Rizzolatti & Luciano Fadiga: The mirror-neuron system and action recognition 9: Marc Jeannerod: Levels of representation of goal-directed actions Part II: Clinical studies of higher-order motor disorders 10: John Noth & C. Fromm: Corticospinal deficits 11: Mario Wiesendanger: Bimanual coordination and its disorders 12: John G. Nutt: Higher-order disorders of gait 13: Ray D. Kent: Speech motor control and its disorders 14: Patrick Haggard & Daniel M. Wolpert: Disorders of body schema 15: Gereon Fink & John Marshall: Motor aspects of unilateral neglect and related disorders 16: Sergio Della-Sala & Clelia Marchetti: Anarchic hand 17: Ramon Leiguarda: Apraxias as traditionally defined 18: Hans-Joachim Freund: Unimodal sensory-motor transformation disorders 19: Elena Deprati & Angela Sirigu: Action recognition disorders following parietal damage 20: Bernard Pillon & Bruno Dubois: From the grasping reflex to the environmental dependency syndrome 21: Joseph Jankovic: Tics and stereotypes 22: Tamara Pringheim, Robert Chen & Antony Lang: Psychogenic motor disorders 23: Facundo Mane & Ramon Leiguarda: Fronto-striatal circuits and disorders of goal-directed actions 24: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Delusions of control: a disorder of forward model of the motor system 25: Pablo Celnik & Leonardo Cohen: Cortical plasticity and motor disorders 26: Yves Rossetti, Gilles Rode & Georg Goldenberg: Perspectives in higher-order motor deficit rehabilitation: Which approach for which ecological result?

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