Understanding the Stretch Reflex

Name: Understanding the Stretch Reflex
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Saburo Honma(Author)

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Published on 22. September 2011

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Front Cover
Understanding the Stretch Reflex
Copyright Page
List of Contributors
Preface
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Chapter 1. Opening Address: Relations of reflexes and intended movements
Chapter 2. Organizer's Lecture: Frequency characteristics of the impulse decoding ratio between the spinal afferents and efferents in the stretch reflex
Session I: Muscle Spindle and its Fusimotor Innervation. Part I
Chapter 3. The mechanical properties of dynamic nuclear bag fibres, static nuclear bag fibres and nuclear chain fibres in isolated cat muscle spindles
Chapter 4. Structural features relative to the function of intrafusal muscle fibres in the cat
Chapter 5. Ultrastructural observations of a muscle spindle in the region of a contrac- tion site of a dynamic ? axon
Chapter 6. Studies of the histochemistry, ultrastructure, motor innervation, and regeneration of mammalian intrafusal muscle fibres
Chapter 7. Studies on muscle spindle primary endings with sinusoidal stretching
Chapter 8. The skeleto-fusimotor innervation of cat muscle spindle
Session II: Muscle Spindle and its Fusimotor Innervation. Part II
Chapter 9. Reflex connections from muscle stretch receptors to their own fusimotor neurones
Chapter 10. Intracellular recordings from intact soleus muscles of cats
Chapter 11. Effects of FM vibration on muscle spindles in the cat
Chapter 12. Role of abortive spike on encoding mechanism in frog muscle spindle
Session III: Muscular Afferents associated with Stretch Reflex
Chapter 13. Nature of the persisting changes in afferent discharge from muscle following its contraction
Chapter 14. Use of afferent triggered averaging to study the central connections of muscle spindle afferents
Chapter 15. Selective activation of group II muscle afferents and its effects on cat spinal neurones
Session IV: Information Processing of the Stretch Reflex
Chapter 16. The relative sensitivity of Renshaw cells to static and dynamic changes in muscle length
Chapter 17. Muscle stretch and chemical muscle spindle excitation: effects on Renshaw cells and efficiency of recurrent inhibition
Chapter 18. Transmission in the pathway of reciprocal Ia inhibition to motoneurones and its control during the tonic stretch reflex
Chapter 19. Recruitment, rate modulation and the tonic stretch reflex
Chapter 20. Patterns of motoneuronal units discharge during naturally evoked afferent input
Session V: Supraspinal Control of the Stretch Reflex. Part I
Chapter 21. Single unit spindle responses t o muscle vibration in man
Chapter 22. Reciprocal Ia inhibition and voluntary movements in man
Chapter 23. An assessment of stretch reflex function
Session VI: Supraspinal Control of the Stretch Reflex. Part II
Chapter 24. Parameter and signal adaptation in the stretch reflex loop
Chapter 25. Alpha-gamma linkage in man during varied contraction
Session VII: Significance of Slow and Fast Muscles in the Stretch Reflex. Part I
Chapter 26. Discharge pattern of tonic and phasic motor units in human muscles upon stretch reflex
Chapter 27. Contraction times of reflexly activated motor units and excitability cycle of the H-reflex
Chapter 28. Identification of fast and slow firing types of motoneurons in the same pool
Session VIII: Significance of Slow and Fast Muscles in the Strech Reflex. Part II
Chapter 29. Blood flow in red' and white muscle: relationship to metabolism development and behavior
Chapter 30. Controlled variations of input-output parameters affecting the active tension-extension diagram during muscle strength
Chapter 31. Supraspinal control of slow and fast spinal motoneurons of the cat
Session IX: Supraspinal Control of the Stretch Reflex. Part III
Chapter 32. Adaptive control of reflexes by the cerebellum
Chapter 33. Cerebellar control of locomotion investigated in cats: discharges from Deiters' neurones, EMG and limb movements during local cooling of the cerebellar cortex
Chapter 34. A role of upper cervical afferents on vestibular control of neck motor activity
Session X: New Approach to the Understanding of the Stretch Reflex
Chapter 35. The state of stretch reflex during quiet standing in man
Chapter 36. Functional stretch reflex (FSR) - a cortical reflex?
Chapter 37. Local tetanism, a tool for understanding the stretch reflex
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