The motoneurons in the spinal cord and the cranial nerve nuclei of the brain stem innervate
the skeletal muscles. They form Sherrington's “final common path” to the striated muscles for …

Publisher Summary Somatic motor system works with the concept that after an interruption of
a certain part of “the motor system” the patient cannot voluntarily move particular parts of the …

In 1906 Charles Sherrington wrote:'There is the coordination which a reflex action
introduces when it makes an effector organ responsive to excitement of a receptor, all other …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents an overview of the caudal structures in brainstem
and spinal cord as far as they concern the motor system. It discusses a concept that …

The standard way of classifying neurons in the spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion leaves a
bit to be desired in the way of crispness, but by and large classifications are based on where …

The motoneuronal outputs from cortex and spinal cord have quite different patterns of
organisation. The cortex consists of a highly intermixed mosaic of small output zones …

A widely spread system of nuclei and fiber tracts, involving cerebral cortex and numerous
sub-cortical regions. In contrast to the pyramidal system, this complex motor system …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview on the organization of the motor
system. The descending pathways from the cerebral cortex and the brain stem to the spinal …

Physiological studies of the pathways from the brain and midbrain to the spinal cord have a
very long history, from Sherrington and other key investigators around the turn of the …

Movement comes about through an intricate interplay between the mechanics of the body
periphery and the neural structures controlling them. What the neural structures do in …