Vestibulospinal Control of Posture and Locomotion
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 1988
439 pages
978-0-08-086201-9 (ISBN)
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This volume publishes the review articles presented by the invited speakers at the Satellite Meeting to the Barany Society Meeting held in Bologna, Italy during June 1987. The subject matter in this book is divided into seven main sections. The first three present basic neuroanatomical and neurophysiological aspects of vestibulospinal reflexes and document the neck afferent and visual influences on these reflexes. The following sections deal with the control of locomotion, posture, and eye-head-trunk coordination by vestibulospinal signals. The final section provides current knowledge on the processes underlying compensation of vestibulospinal deficits. An overall review precedes each main section so that the reader is informed as to which questions are still controversial and require further investigation. In this way a basis is provided for those needing a current account of the field of vestibulospinal reflexes. Due to the extensive length of the contents, only the number of articles presented per session is listed below.
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- Front Cover
- Progress in Brain Research: Vestibulospinal Control of Posture and Locomotion
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Section I: Vestibular Nuclei: Projection Pathways, Neurotransmitters and Synaptology
- Overview
- Chapter 1. Vestibular nuclei: afferent and efferent projections
- Chapter 2. Vestibular projections to the spinal cord: the morphology of single vestibulospinal axons
- Chapter 3. Neurotransmitters in vestibular pathways
- Chapter 4. Synaptic mechanisms of interaction of lateral vestibulospinal neurons with some brainstem structures
- Section II: Neurophysiology of Vestibulospinal Reflexes
- Overview
- Chapter 5. Unit responses to bidirectional off-vertical axes rotations in central vestibular and cerebellar fastigial nuclei
- Chapter 6. Temporal transformation of signals from the otolith organs by the central nervous system of the cat
- Chapter 7. The role of Renshaw cells in the dynamic control of posture during vestibulospinal reflexes
- Chapter 8. Descending cortical and tectal control of dorsal neck motoneurons via reticulospinal neurons in the cat
- Chapter 9. Effects of proprioceptive inputs on vestibulo-ocular and vestibulospinal mechanisms
- Section III: Neck Afferent and Visual Influences on Vestibulospinal Reflexes
- Overview
- Chapter 10. Specialization of sensorimotor organization in the neck muscle system
- Chapter 11. Convergence of neck and vestibular signals on spinal interneurons
- Chapter 12. Convergence of macular vestibular and neck inputs on vestibulospinal and reticulospinal neurons projecting to the lumbosacral cord
- Chapter 13. Integration of vestibular and neck afferent signals in the central cervical nucleus
- Chapter 14. Dynamic and kinematic properties of vestibulocollic and cervicocollic reflexes in the cat
- Chapter 15. Interaction between vestibulocollic and cervicocollic reflexes: automatic compensation of reflex gain by muscle afferents
- Chapter 16. Neck influences on posturokinetic responses to cortical stimulation
- Chapter 17. Synergistic interactions and functional working range of the visual and vestibular systems in postural control: neural correlates
- Section IV: Vestibular Control of Locomotion
- Overview
- Chapter 18. The behaviour of lateral vestibular neurons during walk, trot and gallop in acute precollicular decerebrate cats
- Chapter 19. Phasic modulation of postural activation patterns during human walking
- Chapter 20. Visual and vestibular control of locomotion in early and late sensory-deprived cats
- Section V: Vestibular Control of Posture
- Overview
- Chapter 21. Head-trunk movement coordination in the standing posture
- Chapter 22. On the role of vestibular, visual, and somatosensory information for dynamic postural control in humans
- Chapter 23. Abnormal postural control associated with peripheral vestibular disorders
- Chapter 24. Organization of leg-trunk-head equilibrium movements in normals and patients with peripheral vestibular deficits
- Chapter 25. Labyrinthine control of upright standing posture in humans
- Chapter 26. A system identification approach to balance testing
- Chapter 27. Posture as an organizational structure based on a dual process: a formal basis to interpret changes of posture in weightlessness
- Section VI: Mechanisms of Eye-Head-Trunk Coordination
- Overview
- Chapter 28. Head-eye coordination: visual and nonvisual mechanisms of vestibulo-ocular reflex slow-phase modification
- Chapter 29. Motor control strategies underlying head stabilization and voluntary head movements in humans and cats
- Chapter 30. Tensorial aspects of the multidimensional massively parallel sensorimotor function of neuronal networks
- Section VII: Compensation of Vestibulospinal Deficits
- Overview
- Chapter 31. Noradrenergic and cholinergic mechanisms responsible for the gain regulation of vestibulospinal reflexes
- Chapter 32. Postural compensation in the guinea pig following unilateral labyrinthectomy
- Chapter 33. Mechanisms of vestibular compensation in the unilateral labyrinthectomized cat
- Chapter 34. Physical exercise and balance compensation after total ablation of vestibular organs
- Chapter 35. Immediate saccadic substitution for deficits in dynamic vestibular reflexes of frogs with selective peripheral lesions
- Chapter 36. The role of gaze in compensation of vestibular dysfunction: the gaze substitution hypothesis
- Chapter 37. Effects of melanocortins on vestibular compensation
- Subject Index
