Electromyography and Evoked Potentials

Theories and Applications

284 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

I: Central Disorders of Movement.- Animal Models of Motor Disorders.- Abnormalities of Mechanoreceptor-Evoked Electromyographic Activity in Central Motor Disorders.- The Pathophysiology of Central Paresis.- A Functional Approach to Understanding Spasticity.- Akinesia in Parkinsonism Pharmacological and Physiological Analysis.- The Pathophysiology of Chorea, Tics and Dystonia.- Stereoencephalotomy and Motor Control.- Comments on Research in Central Disorders of Movement.- II: Posture and Locomotion.- Concepts in Neural Control of Posture and Locomotion.- Control of Human Locomotion by Group I Reflex Pathways from Ankle Extensors.- Fusimotor "Set" vs. ?-? Linkage in Voluntary Movement in Cats.- Control of Neural Prostheses.- Characteristics of Increased Postural Sway and Abnormal Long Loop Responses in Patients with Cerebellar Diseases and Parkinsonism.- Cutaneo-Muscular Control Mechanisms in Health and Disease: Possible Implications on Spasticity.- Quantification of Spasticity.- Clinical Neurophysiology of Spinal Cord and Neuropharmacology.- III: EMG Methods and Applications in Restorative Neurology.- Trends in EMG Methods and Applications in Restorative Neurology.- Critical Evaluation of Needle EMG Methods.- Spectral Analysis of EMG.- Clinical Applications of Spectral Analysis of EMG.- Computer Pattern Recognition of Motor Unit Potentials.- Clinical Applications of Recent Development in EMG.- Pre- and Postoperative Electrophysiological Assessment of Entrapped, Sutured and Grafted Nerves - Current Advances in Nerve Microsurgery.- Comments on Restorative Microsurgery and EMG Monitoring.- IV: Clinical Uses of Evoked Potentials and Brainstem Reflexes.- Clinical Uses of Recorded Jaw and Blink Reflexes.- Auditory Nerve - Brainstem Evoked Responses: Neurophysiologyand Neurological Diagnosis.- Neural Generator of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials Components in Man.- Somatosensory Potentials to Lower Limb Stimulation. The Origin of Short Latency Tibial SEPs.- Technical Aspects of Surgical Monitoring Using Evoked Potentials.- Brainstem Disorders and Coma: Evaluation and Monitoring Using Evoked Potentials and Brainstem Reflexes.- Critical Evaluation of Evoked Potentials in Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.- Somatosensory Evoked Potentials to Lower Extremity Stimulation: Clinical Utility in the Pediatric Age Group.- Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SEP) in Myoclonus.- Current Concepts and Trends in Clinical Uses of Evoked Potentials and Brainstem Reflexes.- V: Neuropathies and Myopathies.- Proximal and Distal Conduction Velocities in Neuropathies.- Hereditary Motor Neuronopathies (Spinal Muscular Atrophies).- Electrophysiological Findings in Different Forms of Infantile and Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy.- Membrane Disturbances in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy.- Myotonia, Paramyotonia and Periodic Paralysis.- Entrapment Neuropathies.- Autonomic Neuropathies: The Earliest Abnormalities.

• Reihe: Advances in Applied Neurological Sciences
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Biologie, Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, allgemein Neurowissenschaften
• ISBN: 9783642701245
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2011
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: J.B. Metzler
• Herausgegeben von: A. Struppler, A. Weindl