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Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture

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Editors:
  1. Simon C. Gandevia

    1. Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Uwe Proske

    1. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Douglas G. Stuart

    1. University of Arizona, Tempe, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 508)

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Table of contents (58 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Impulse Initiation and Central Transmission from Muscle and Skin

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Signalling Properties of Muscle Spindles and Tendon Organs

      • Uwe Proske, John E. Gregory
      Pages 5-12

    3. Evidence for Activity-Dependent Modulation of Sensory-Terminal Excitability in Spindles by Glutamate Release From Synaptic-Like Vesicles

      • Robert W. Banks, Guy S. Bewick, Brian Reid, Christine Richardson
      Pages 13-18

    4. Electrophysiology of Corneal Cold Receptor Nerve Terminals

      • Richard W. Carr, James A. Brock
      Pages 19-23

    5. Discharge Properties of Group III and IV Muscle Afferents

      • Marc P. Kaufman, Shawn G. Hayes, Christine M. Adreani, Joel G. Pickar
      Pages 25-32

    6. Effects of Activity on Axonal Excitability: Implications for Motor Control Studies

      • David Burke
      Pages 33-37

    7. Reflexes in the Hand: Strong Synaptic Coupling Between Single Tactile Afferents and Spinal Motoneurones

      • Penelope McNulty, Vaughan Macefield
      Pages 39-45

    8. The Synaptic Linkage for Tactile and Kinaesthetic Inputs to the Dorsal Column Nuclei

      • Mark J. Rowe
      Pages 47-55

  3. Proprioception in Limb Movements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-59
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    2. Proprioception: Peripheral Inputs and Perceptual Interactions

      • Simon C. Gandevia, Kathyrn M. Refshauge, David F. Collins
      Pages 61-68

    3. Adaptation to Coriolis Force Perturbation of Movement Trajectory

      • James R. Lackner, Paul DiZio
      Pages 69-78

    4. Velocity Perception and Proprioception

      • Graham K. Kerr, Charles J. Worringham
      Pages 79-86

    5. The Effect of Muscle Contraction on Kinaesthesia

      • Andrew K. Wise, James B. Fallon
      Pages 87-94

    6. Proprioception and Joint Pathology

      • Kathryn M. Refshauge
      Pages 95-101

  4. Afferent Contributions to Balance and Posture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-104
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    2. Consequences and Assessment of Human Vestibular Failure

      • James G. Colebatch
      Pages 105-110

    3. The Role of Cutaneous Receptors in the Foot

      • J. Timothy Inglis, Paul M. Kennedy, Cari Wells, Romeo Chua
      Pages 111-117

    4. What Does Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation Stimulate?

      • Daniel L. Wardman, Richard C. Fitzpatrick
      Pages 119-128

    5. Sensory Interactions for Human Balance Control Revealed by Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation

      • Brian L. Day, Michel Guerraz, Jonathan Cole
      Pages 129-137
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia

    Simon C. Gandevia

  • Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Uwe Proske

  • University of Arizona, Tempe, USA

    Douglas G. Stuart

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture

  • Editors: Simon C. Gandevia, Uwe Proske, Douglas G. Stuart

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0713-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47285-5Published: 31 July 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5206-8Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0713-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 518

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Internal Medicine

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