Higher-order Motor Disorders
From neuroanatomy and neurobiology to clinical neurology
Published on 31. March 2005
Book
Hardback
526 pages
978-0-19-852576-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Neurologists, cognitive neurologists, neurophysiologists, psychiatrists and others involved in movement disorders such as rehabilitation specialists
Illustrations
numerous halftones and line figures
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1008 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852576-9 (9780198525769)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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, and Ramon Leiguarda, Chairman Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Editor
, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany
, Professor in Physiology, University of Lyon, France
, Chief, Motor Control Section, National Institute of Health, Bethesda
, Chairman Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Content
INTRODUCTION ; PART I: NEUROANATOMICAL, NEUROBIOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE BASIS ; 1. Functional neuroanatomy of the human motor cortex ; 2. Parallel parietofrontal circuits for sensorimotor transformation ; 3. The planning and control of reaching and grasping movements ; 4. The premotor cortex: from attention to intention ; 5. Linking perception and action: an ideomotor approach ; 6. Cerebellar motor and cognitive functions ; 7. Motor learning ; 8. The mirror-neuron system and action recognition ; 9. Levels of representation of goal-directed actions ; PART II: CLINICAL STUDIES OF HIGHER-ORDER MOTOR DISORDERS ; 10. Corticospinal deficits ; 11. Bimanual coordination and its disorders ; 12. Higher-order disorders of gait ; 13. Speech motor control and its disorders ; 14. Disorders of body schema ; 15. Motor aspects of unilateral neglect and related disorders ; 16. Anarchic hand ; 17. Apraxias as traditionally defined ; 18. Unimodal sensory-motor transformation disorders ; 19. Action recognition disorders following parietal damage ; 20. From the grasping reflex to the environmental dependency syndrome ; 21. Tics and stereotypes ; 22. Psychogenic motor disorders ; 23. Fronto-striatal circuits and disorders of goal-directed actions ; 24. Delusions of control: a disorder of forward model of the motor system ; 25. Cortical plasticity and motor disorders ; 26. Perspectives in higher-order motor deficit rehabilitation: Which approach for which ecological result?