[Book Description]

This book is dedicated to the clinicians, researchers, and students who seek to understand the causes and to ameliorate the consequences of motor dysfunction.
The purpose of this text is to provide the student with and integrated discussion of the motor systems that includes consideration of both normal and disturbed motor function.


[Contents]

SECTIONⅠ: BASIC COMPONENTS OF THE MOTOR SYSTEM: THE CELLS AND TISSUES
1. Excitable Cells: Their Morphology and Physiology
2. Skeletal Muscle: The Somatic Effector
3. The Neuromuscular Junction: The Nerve/Muscle Interface
4. Basic Sensory Mechanisms and the Somatosensory System

SECTIONⅡ: CONTROL OF MOTOR ACTIVITY: SYSTEMS THAT REGULATE AND COORDINATE MOVEMENT
5. Motor Control at the Spinal Cord Level
6. The Brainstem and Motor Control
7. Cortical Motor Systems
8. Cerebellar Mechanisms
9. Basal Ganglia and Their Connections
10. Theories of Motor Control
11. Motor Learning

SECTIONⅢ: CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF MOTOR DYSFUNCTION
12. Clinical Presentations in Disorders of Motor Function

SECTIONⅣ: DISORDERS OF THE MOTOR UNIT: NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES
13. Disorders of Muscles: The Myopathies
14. Myasthenia Gravis and Other Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission
15. Disorders of the Peripheral Nervous System: The Peripheral Neuropathies
16. Disorders of Anterior Horn Cells: The Neuronopathies

SECTIONⅤ: DISORDERS OF CENTRAL MOTOR CONTROL
17. Disorders of the Spinal Cord
18. Parkinson's Disease and Other Involuntary Movement Disorders of the Basal Ganglia
19. Disorders of the Cerebellum and Its Connections
20. Traumatic Brain Injury
21. Cerebrovascular Disease: Stroke
22. Multiple Sclerosis and Other Disorders of Central Nervous System Myelin

SECTIONⅥ: Consequences of Immobilization
23. Adverse Effects of Immobilization on the Musculoskeletal System
24. Adverse Effects of Immobilization on Visceral Function

Index