1. Introduction. Plans Strategies and Actions. - Categories of Muscles. - Problems of Moving. - A Legacy. - 2. Mechanical Properties of Muscles. - Review of Muscle Anatomy. - Mechanical Properties of Muscle. - Behaviour of Isolated Muscle Stimulated at Subtetanic Rates. - Muscle Mechanics in Intact Man. - Effects of Muscle Properties on Control of Movement. - A Theory of Movement Control which Makes Use of the Mechanical Properties of Muscle. - 3. The Motor Unit. - The Concept of the Motor Unit. - Twitch and Tonic Muscle Fibres. - Physiological Investigation of the Motor Unit. - Histochemical and Biochemical Classification of Muscle Fibres. - Some Electrophysiological Properties of Motoneurones. - Control of Motor Units and their Recruitment Order. - The Study of Motor Units in Human Physiology. - Pathophysiology of the Motor Unit. - 4. Proprioceptors in Muscle Joint and Skin. - Muscle Receptors: I. The Muscle Spindle. - Muscle Receptors: II. Golgi Tendon Organs. - Muscle Receptors: III. Other Types of Ending. - Joint Receptors. - Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors. - Recordings from Human Afferent Nerve Fibres. - 5. Reflex Pathways in the Spinal Cord. - Classification of Nerve Fibres. - Reflex Pathways from la Muscle Spindle Afferents. - Reflex Pathways from lb Tendon Organ Afferents. - Reflex Pathways from Group II Muscle Afferents and the Flexor Reflex Afferents'. - The Renshaw Cell. - Integration in Spinal Reflex Pathways. - Presynaptic Inhibition. - 6. Functional Consequences of Activity in Spinal Reflex Pathways. - The Stretch Reflex in Animals. - Stretch Reflexes in Human Muscles. - The Servo Hypothesis and Alpha-Gamma Coactivation. - The Regulation of Stiffness Hypothesis and lb Effects. - Other Spinal Reflex Pathways. - Cutaneous Reflexes. - Pathophysiology of the Stretch Reflex: Disorders of MuscleTone. - Pathophysiology of Other Reflex Pathways. - 7. Ascending and Descending Pathways of the Spinal Cord. - Ascending Pathways. - 8. Cerebral Cortex. - Structure of Cerebral Cortex. - Detailed Electrophysiology of Primary Motor (MI) Cortex. - The Pyramidal Tract. - Motor Cortex Cell Activity During Voluntary Movements. - Sensory Input to Motor Cortex. - Other Motor Areas of Cortex. - Supplementary Motor Area. - Motor Functions of Parietal Cortex. - Pathophysiology of Motor Areas of Cerebral Cortex. - 9. The Cerebellum. - Cerebellar Anatomy. - Electrophysiological Studies of the Cerebellum. - Effects of Cerebellar Lesions. - Studies of Cerebellar Dysfunction in Man. - Theories of Cerebellar Function. - 10. The Basal Ganglia. - Anatomy. - Electrophysiological Recordings from Behaving Animals. - Pathophysiology of Diseases of the Basal Ganglia in Man. Language: English