From Neuron to Action: An Appraisal of Fundamental and Clinical Research

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Adaptations and Learning of Arm Movements....Pages 3-12
Emergent Issues in the Control of Multi-joint Movements....Pages 13-23
Looking Where the Action Is: Negative DC Shifts as Indicators of Cortical Activity....Pages 25-41
Negative DC Shifts of the Supplementary and Motor Area Preceding and Accompanying Simultaneous and Sequential Finger Movements....Pages 43-47
DC Potential Shifts and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Reveal Frontal Cortex Involvement in Human Visuomotor Learning....Pages 49-51
Event-Related Slow Potentials Recorded from Cortex and Depth of the Human Brain....Pages 53-57
Cortical DC-Shifts Related to Sustained Sensory Stimulation and Motor Activity....Pages 59-64
Coordination Between Posture and Movement in Parkinsonism and SMA Lesion....Pages 65-70
Feedback Mechanisms Controlling Skeletal Muscle Tone....Pages 71-80
Significance of Carbonic Anhydrase in the Function of Skeletal Muscle....Pages 81-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Holding the Eye Still After a Saccade....Pages 89-96
Do the Pretectum and Accessory Optic System Play Different Roles in Optokinetic Nystagmus?....Pages 97-105
Excitatory and Inhibitory Mechanisms Involved in the Dynamic Control of Posture During the Vestibulospinal Reflexes....Pages 107-123
Motion Perception with Moving Eyes....Pages 125-131
Does the System for Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements Rely on a Neuronal Representation of Target Motion in Space?....Pages 133-142
Optokinetic and Smooth-Pursuit Response After Adaptive Modification of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex....Pages 143-146
The Detection of Motion by the Vestibular System....Pages 147-155
Role of Neck and Visual Afferents for Self and Object Motion Perception in Labyrinthine Defective Subjects....Pages 157-165
The Coordination Between the Lid and Eye During Vertical Saccades....Pages 167-170
Ocular Pursuit of Sinusoidally Moving Targets: Is There a Sine Wave Generator in the Brain?....Pages 171-173
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
The Role of Visual Feedback and Preprogramming for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements: Experiments with Velocity Steps....Pages 175-178
Positional Nystagmus of Benign Paroxysmal Type (BPPN) due to Cerebellar Vermis Lesions: Pseudo-BPPN....Pages 179-183
Two Forms of Head-Shaking Tests in Vestibular Examination....Pages 185-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
The Parietal Visual System and some Aspects of Visuospatial Perception....Pages 193-209
Focal Thalamocortical Rhythms as Indicators of Attentive States in the Cat....Pages 211-221
The Sensory Neuron — Where the Action Begins....Pages 223-232
Parallel and Complementary Organization of Cortical Eye Movement Control and Visual Perception....Pages 233-245
Stages of Somatosensory Processing Revealed by Mapping Event-Related Potentials....Pages 247-251
On Ideation and “Ideography”....Pages 253-266
Movement Detection and Figure-Ground Discrimination....Pages 267-276
Influence of Complex Visual Stimuli on the Regional Cerebral Blood Flow....Pages 277-281
DC Shifts in the Human Brain: Their Relationship to the CNV and Bereitschaftspotential....Pages 283-291
Probability Mapping of EEG Changes due to the Perception of Music....Pages 293-297
Program Generator Revisited: The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Language and Communication....Pages 299-304
From Articular Nociception to Pain: Peripheral and Spinal Mechanisms....Pages 305-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
The Evolution of Cerebral Asymmetry....Pages 315-328
Science, Man and Meaning....Pages 329-334
Information and Efficiency....Pages 335-346
A Critical Consideration of Kornhuber’s Concept of the Brain-Mind Problem....Pages 347-351
Brain, Mind, Freedom: Beyond Metatheory, Nearer to Reality....Pages 353-363
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Neuroethological Foundations of Human Speech....Pages 365-374
Cricket Neuroethology: A Comparative Approach to the Nervous System....Pages 375-384
Hierarchies of Structure-Function Relationship in the Neurosciences....Pages 385-388
Evolution and Phylogenetic Diversification of Chemical Messengers....Pages 389-395
Front Matter....Pages 397-397
Cascade-Type Reentrance: The Major Connectivity Principle of the Neocortex....Pages 399-406
Peripheral Axotomy Challenges the Central Motor Neuron and its Cellular Microenvironment....Pages 407-412
Frequency and Amplitude Codes of Neuronal Signals....Pages 413-419
Balance and Imbalance of Transsynaptic Neurotransmission as Conditions for Normal and Pathological Behaviour: Examples Only....Pages 421-426
Behavioural Pharmacology of Brain Glutamate....Pages 427-432
Effects of CO 2 on Neural Functions....Pages 433-441
The R-Wave Biography of a Brain Potential....Pages 443-447
The Proton-Activated Sodium Current: Activation Conditions in Mammalian Central Neurons....Pages 449-453
The Impact of Advanced Computing on Medicine....Pages 455-461
Biomagnetic Measuring Technique: State of the Art and Prospects for the Future....Pages 463-467
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Advances in Schizophrenia Research....Pages 471-477
Cognitive Basic Symptoms of Thought, Perception and Action in Idiopathic Psychoses and Limbic System....Pages 479-483
Phenomenological Aspects and the Measurement of Negative or Basic Symptoms in Schizophrenia....Pages 485-488
Evoked Brain Potentials and Psychometric Data in Children at Risk for Schizophrenia....Pages 489-494
The Order of EEG Activity of Schizophrenic Patients and the Influence of Haloperidol and Biperidene on the EEG Order of Healthy Subjects....Pages 495-500
Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology: The Use of Thymosthenic Substances in Schizophrenia....Pages 501-506
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Dopamine D 2 -Receptors in Post-mortem Human Brains from Schizophrenic Patients....Pages 507-513
Phencyclidine — A Challenge to Schizophrenia Research....Pages 515-518
Neurotoxic Metabolites of Tyrosine/Dopamine in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Serum of Normal Men and Neurological Patients. A Sign of the Activity of free Oxygen Radicals?....Pages 519-521
Searching for New Antiischemic Compounds: Theoretical and Practical Aspects....Pages 523-526
Experimental Intracerebral Hematoma and Treatment with Flunarizine in Rats....Pages 527-529
“Normal” Alcohol Consumption and Well-Being: Relationship Between Reduction of Alcohol Consumption and Changes in Well-Being....Pages 531-537
“Normal” (“Social”) Daily Alcohol Consumption, Arterial Hypertension, Glucose Tolerance, Plasma Insulin, C Peptide, GGT, S-Adenosylmethionine, Plasma Lipids and Obesity: Insulin Receptor Damage and Mediators Versus Repair Mechanism of Toxic Alcohol Effects....Pages 539-542
EEG Signs of a Disturbed Voluntary Process Prior to Voluntary Movements in Schizophrenia....Pages 543-546
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
The Role of the Magnification Factor in the Recovery Process of Visual Field Defects After Retrogeniculate Lesions....Pages 549-555
Oxygen Free Radicals and Radical Scavengers in Neurology....Pages 557-563
Immunotherapy in Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Future Prospects....Pages 565-569
Effective Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis with Cyclophosphamide with Little Side Effects....Pages 571-574
Neurogenesis and Pathogenesis of Glia: Immunological Studies....Pages 575-581
Paired Stimuli in the Diagnosis of Peripheral and Central Nervous Diseases....Pages 583-592
Early Speech Education: An Epidemiologic Study....Pages 593-597
Hope for a Drug Treatment in Acute Stroke....Pages 599-601
The Essence of Aphasia — Disturbed Control of Language Production, e.g. in Phonemic Paraphasia: A Quantitative Comparison of Spontaneous Speech in Aphasia and Dementia....Pages 603-606
Planning Strategies of Intracranial Microsurgery....Pages 607-622
What Can Neurosurgery Do in 1988?....Pages 623-628
Transcranial Doppler Evaluation of Cerebral Hemodynamics in Carotid Artery Occlusions....Pages 629-632
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Sonography Through the Anterior Fontanelle in Newborns: An Efficient Method for Screening Pre- and Perinatal Lesions....Pages 633-636
The Severity of Convulsive Behaviour in Rats: Disinhibitory Effects of Cortical Lesions....Pages 637-640
Electrophysiology of Myotonias and Periodic Paralyses....Pages 641-645
Protection Against Sudden Infant Death: Home Monitoring of All Infants During the First Year of Life by Means of the Babyprotector....Pages 647-650
EEG Spectra and Evoked Potentials to Words in Apallic Patients....Pages 651-653
Back Matter....Pages 655-677