内容简介：
This comprehensive text on motor control is at a level between basic physiology texts and exhaustive research volumes. Some background knowledge of somatotomy in the sensorimotor cortex, gross spindle anatomy and Sherrington's stretch reflex, etc., is assumed. Issues discussed include: the role of preprogrammed versus feedback control of movement; the possible pathways and functions of the stretch reflex; the role of the cerebellum and basal ganglia in programming and controlling movement and associated adjustments of body posture. The book is organised in a systematic way, discussing CNS structures in ascending order from the spinal cord to cerebral cortex. Throughout the book the basic science is related to various neurological diseases of the motor system, e.g. Parkinson's disease. The book will interest postgraduate and practising neurologists as well as advanced students of physiology and physiotherapy. This book should be of interest to neurologists and physiologists.