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Simon C. Gandevia
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Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
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Uwe Proske
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Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Douglas G. Stuart
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University of Arizona, Tempe, USA
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Table of contents (58 chapters)
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Afferent Contributions to Balance and Posture
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- Fay B. Horak, John Buchanan, Robert Creath, John Jeka
Pages 139-145
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- Thomas Mergner, Christoph Maurer, Robert J. Peterka
Pages 147-152
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Motoneurones and Motor Units
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Front Matter
Pages 153-155
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- Annie Schmied, Jean-Marc Aimonetti, Jean-Pierre Vedel
Pages 179-185
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- Randall K. Powers, Kemal S. Türker, Marc D. Binder
Pages 199-205
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- Marc D. Binder, C. G. Heckman, Randall. K. Powers
Pages 207-212
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- Aidas Alaburda, Jean-François Perrier, Jørn Hounsgaard
Pages 219-226
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- David F. Collins, Monica Gorassini, David Bennett, David Burke, Simon C. Gandevia
Pages 227-235
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- Christine K. Thomas, Jane E. Butler, Inge Zijdewind
Pages 237-244
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Propriospinal Neurones and Spinal Reflexes
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Front Matter
Pages 245-247
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- Eberhard E. Fetz, Steve I. Perlmutter, Yifat Prut, Kazuhiko Seki
Pages 265-271
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- Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny, Véronique Marchand-Pauvert
Pages 273-279
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- Bror Alstermark, Tadashi Isa
Pages 281-297
About this book
This collection of contributions on the subject of the neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control resulted from a conference held in Cairns, Australia, September 3-6, 2001. While the three of us were attending the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Congress in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1997, we discussed the implications of the next Congress being awarded to New Zealand. We agreed to organise a satellite to this congress in an area of mutual interest -the neuroscience of movement and sensation. Australia has a long-standing and enviable reputation in the field of neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control. Arguably this reached its peak with the award of a Nobel Prize to Sir John Eccles in 1963 for his work on synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. Since that time, the subject of neuroscience has progressed considerably. One advance is the exploitation of knowledge acquired from animal experiments to studies on conscious human subjects. In this development, Australians have achieved international prominence, particularly in the areas of kinaesthesia and movement control. This bias is evident in the choice of subject matter for the conference and, subsequently, this book. It was also decided to assign a whole section to muscle mechanics, a subject that is often left out altogether from conferences on motor control. Cairns is a lovely city and September is a good time to visit it.
Editors and Affiliations
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Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Simon C. Gandevia
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Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Uwe Proske
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University of Arizona, Tempe, USA
Douglas G. Stuart