Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology of Motor

This book's main focus is the development of skilled motor actions by children: commonplace but vital actions such as maintaining posture, walking, reaching and grasping, and manipulating objects and tools. It represents a state-of-the-art report on motor development linking neurophysiological and neuropsychological approaches. Contributors employ examples from both normal and pathological development to study pre- and postnatal brain development and its relationship to skilled motor actions and patterns of behavioral change.

Kevin J. Connolly is the author of Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology of Motor Development, published by Wiley. Hans Forssberg is the author of Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology of Motor Development, published by Wiley.

CONTRIBUTORS

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(4)

FOREWORD

xi

(2)

Brian Neville

PREFACE

xiii

1. BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TONE AND MOVEMENT

1

(41)

J. Keith Brown

Tarek Omar

Mary O'Regan

2. THE IMPORTANCE OF FETAL MOVEMENTS

42

(12)

Heinz F. R. Prechtl

3. POSTURAL CONTROL IN CHILDREN: DEVELOPMENT IN TYPICAL POPULATIONS AND IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND DOWN SYNDROME

54

(24)

Dafne Matiello

Marjorie Woollacott

4. NEUROBIOLOGY OF NORMAL AND IMPAIRED LOCOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT

78

(23)

Hans Forssberg

Volker Dietz

5. LOCOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

101

(23)

David Scrutton

Peter Rosenbaum

6. THE INTERACTION OF MUSCLE MATURATION WITH MOVEMENT AND POSTURE

124

(21)

J.-P. Lin

7. DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION OF CUTANEOMUSCULAR REFLEXES AND THEIR PATHOPHYSIOLOGY IN CEREBRAL PALSY

145

(17)

Andrew Lloyd Evans

8. SKILLED ACTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CORTICOSPINAL TRACT IN PRIMATES

162

(15)

R. N. Lemon

J. Armand

E. Olivier

S. A. Edgley

9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESCENDING MOTOR PATHWAYS IN CHILDREN WITH HEMIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY: THE EFFECTS OF EARLY BRAIN DAMAGE

177

(24)

L. J. Carr

J. A. Stephens

10. POSTURAL ADJUSTMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH BALLISTIC MOVEMENTS IN ADULT HUMANS

201

(13)

P. Ashby

E. Cafarelli

E. Palmer

11. DEVELOPMENT OF NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING GRASPING IN CHILDREN

214

(18)

A. M. Gordon

Hans Forssberg

12. THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRIP PATTERNS IN INFANCY

232

(25)

Karl M. Newell

P. Vernon McDonald

13. PERCEPTION IN ACTION APPROACH TO CEREBRAL PALSY

257

(29)

David N. Lee

Claes von Hofsten

Ester Cotton

14. VARIABILITY AND STABILITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLED ACTIONS

286

(33)

Edison De J. Manoel

Kevin J. Connolly

15. DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN

319

(27)

Beverly D. Ulrich

16. ADAPTIVE MODEL THEORY: CENTRAL PROCESSING IN ACQUISITION OF SKILL

346

(25)

P. D. Neilson

M. D. Neilson

N. J. O'Dwyer

INDEX

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