MODULE 5
SUGGESTED READING
Digital:
1) Neuroscience Online: an electronic textbook for the neurosciences. This is a free educational resource provided by the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. It is really superb and we urge you to make use of it. The online version works fine on computers, but since visualization of the figures requires a flash player, they are absent when the material is viewed using an Ipad.
Section 3, Chapter 2: Spinal Reflexes and Descending Motor Pathways
2.1 Spinal Reflexes and Descending Motor Pathways
2.2 Descending Motor Pathways
2.3 Influences of Descending Pathways on Spinal Circuits
Section 3, Chapter 3: Motor Cortex
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Motor Cortex Comprises the Primary Motor Cortex, Premotor Cortex, and Supplementary Motor Area
3.3 Cortical Afferents and Efferents
3.4 Motor Cortex Cytoarchitecture
3.5 Encoding of Movement by Motor Cortex
2) The Nervous System in Action by Michael D. Mann. Click on MANN TEXT to access the internet version of this excellent textbook. The home page provides links to individual chapters and also offers PDF links, making it easy to print copies of the text. You can view the material directly on your computer screen, but print out a copy if possible. The reason to do so is that we will refer to specific pages in the text, and these are not shown in the computer screen version.
Section 16, Initiation and Control of Movement
Pg 16-15 Cortical Control of Movement
3) The Digital Anatomist. This is an excellent program developed by the Dept. Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle. It contains a huge library of views of the brain. We will refer to specific figures in many of our modules, including this one.
Printed:
1) Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases by Hal Blumenfeld.
- - An introduction to the motor system is given on pages 32-33 and in Figure 2.16.
- - The main treatment of the motor systems is in Chapter 6 on pages 220-228. Note particularly Figures 6.7-6.11 and Table 6.3.
2) Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience by M. J. Turlough Fitzgerald, Gregory Gruener and Estomih Mtui. Fifth Edition.
----- Descending motor pathways are covered in Chapter 16, starting on page 191.
OPTIONAL
----- Chapter 35 discusses, among other things, the effect of vascular lesions (“strokes”) upon motor function. See, for example, Figure 35.3, on page 394, and clinical panels 35.2 and Clinical Panels 35.2 - 35.8, starting on page 396.
3) Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications by Duane E. Haines. Third Edition.
- - The control of movement is covered in Chapter 25, starting on page 395. The corticospinal tract is summarized in Figure 25-6 and the corticobulbar pathway in Figure 25-13.
- - The role of brainstem structures in controling movement is presented in Chapter 24, starting on page 385. Figure 24-7 and Figure 24-9 summarize some of the pathways.
4) Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessel. Chapters 33 - 38 deal with various aspects of motor function. Read them all! (just joking). The sections most relevant to the material in this module are:
a) Pages 663-672 (note Figs 33-12-15).
b) Pages 730-735.
c) Pages 750-753.
d) Chapter 38 - scan through it - there are many sections that are of interest
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