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Muscle Receptors and Movement

Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, on July 8th and 9th, 1980

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1981

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  1. A. Taylor

    1. Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

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  2. A. Prochazka

    1. Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

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Table of contents (47 papers)

  2. Muscle Afferent Discharge in Voluntary Movement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. Overview

      • A. Taylor, A. Prochazka
      Pages 217-217

    3. Muscle spindle function during normal and perturbed locomotion in cats

      • G. E. Loeb, J. A. Hoffer
      Pages 219-228

    4. Independence of fusimotor and skeletomotor systems during voluntary movement

      • A. Prochazka, P. Wand
      Pages 229-243

    5. A critique of the papers by Loeb and Hoffer and Prochazka and Wand

      • K.-E. Hagbarth
      Pages 245-247

    6. A critique of the papers by Loeb and Hoffer; and Prochazka and Wand

      • Åke Vallbo
      Pages 249-255

    7. Muscle spindle responses to rapid stretching in normal cats

      • A. Prochazka, P. Wand
      Pages 257-261

    8. Basic patterns of muscle spindle discharge in man

      • Åke Vallbo
      Pages 263-275

    9. Fusimotor and stretch reflex functions studied in recordings from muscle spindle afferents in man

      • K.-E. Hagbarth
      Pages 277-285

    10. A critique of the papers by Vallbo and Hagbarth

      • A. Taylor
      Pages 287-290

    11. A critique of the papers by Hagbarth and Vallbo

      • Albrecht Struppler
      Pages 291-294

  3. Reflexes Mediated by Muscle Afferents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295
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    2. Overview

      • A. Taylor, A. Prochazka
      Pages 297-298

    3. Function of the spindle dynamic response in stiffness regulation—a predictive mechanism provided by non-linear feedback

      • J. C. Houk, P. E. Crago, W. Z. Rymer
      Pages 299-309

    4. Limitations in the servo-regulation of soleus muscle stiffness in premammillary cats

      • J. A. Hoffer, S. Andreassen
      Pages 311-324

    5. Observations on the control of human ankle position by stretch reflexes

      • J. H. J. Allum
      Pages 325-337
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

    A. Taylor, A. Prochazka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Muscle Receptors and Movement

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, on July 8th and 9th, 1980

  • Editors: A. Taylor, A. Prochazka

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06022-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The contributors 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-06024-5Published: 01 January 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-06022-1Published: 18 June 1981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 446

  • Topics: Zoology

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology

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