A rich source of information about human voluntary movement in health and disease can be found in this book. The most esteemed researchers in their respective fields bring you up-to-date articles. Their collected work combines fundamental research in the life sciences with clinical neuroscience in a unique overview. The interdisciplinary aspects of motor physiology uncover a wealth of information for researchers from neighboring disciplines. For example, oculomotor research, vestibular research, equilibrium, sensory research and cognition, evolution, synaptic and elementary processes and the neurological sciences can be discovered.

1: Motor

Adaptations and Learning of Arm Movements
Emergent Issues in the Control of Multi-joint Movements
Looking Where the Action Is: Negative DC Shifts as Indicators of Cortical Activity
Negative DC Shifts of the Supplementary and Motor Area Preceding and Accompanying Simultaneous and Sequential Finger Movements
DC Potential Shifts and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Reveal Frontal Cortex Involvement in Human Visuomotor Learning
Event-Related Slow Potentials Recorded from Cortex and Depth of the Human Brain
Cortical DC-Shifts Related to Sustained Sensory Stimulation and Motor Activity
Coordination Between Posture and Movement in Parkinsonism and SMA Lesion
Feedback Mechanisms Controlling Skeletal Muscle Tone
Significance of Carbonic Anhydrase in the Function of Skeletal Muscle
2: Oculomotor and Equilibrium
Holding the Eye Still After a Saccade
Do the Pretectum and Accessory Optic System Play Different Roles in Optokinetic Nystagmus?
Excitatory and Inhibitory Mechanisms Involved in the Dynamic Control of Posture During the Vestibulospinal Reflexes
Motion Perception with Moving Eyes
Does the System for Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements Rely on a Neuronal Representation of Target Motion in Space?
Optokinetic and Smooth-Pursuit Response After Adaptive Modification of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
The Detection of Motion by the Vestibular System
Role of Neck and Visual Afferents for Self and Object Motion Perception in Labyrinthine Defective Subjects
The Coordination Between the Lid and Eye During Vertical Saccades
Ocular Pursuit of Sinusoidally Moving Targets: Is There a Sine Wave Generator in the Brain?
The Role of Visual Feedback and Preprogramming for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements: Experiments with Velocity Steps
Positional Nystagmus of Benign Paroxysmal Type (BPPN) due to Cerebellar Vermis Lesions: Pseudo-BPPN
Two Forms of Head-Shaking Tests in Vestibular Examination
3: Sensory and Cognitive
The Parietal Visual System and some Aspects of Visuospatial Perception
Focal Thalamocortical Rhythms as Indicators of Attentive States in the Cat
The Sensory Neuron - Where the Action Begins
Parallel and Complementary Organization of Cortical Eye Movement Control and Visual Perception
Stages of Somatosensory Processing Revealed by Mapping Event-Related Potentials
On Ideation and "Ideography"
Movement Detection and Figure-Ground Discrimination
Influence of Complex Visual Stimuli on the Regional Cerebral Blood Flow
DC Shifts in the Human Brain: Their Relationship to the CNV and Bereitschaftspotential
Probability Mapping of EEG Changes due to the Perception of Music
Program Generator Revisited: The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Language and Communication
From Articular Nociception to Pain: Peripheral and Spinal Mechanisms
4: Evolution
The Evolution of Cerebral Asymmetry
Science, Man and Meaning
Information and Efficiency
A Critical Consideration of Kornhuber's Concept of the Brain-Mind Problem
Brain, Mind, Freedom: Beyond Metatheory, Nearer to Reality
Neuroethological Foundations of Human Speech
Cricket Neuroethology: A Comparative Approach to the Nervous System
Hierarchies of Structure-Function Relationship in the Neurosciences
Evolution and Phylogenetic Diversification of Chemical Messengers
5: Synaptic and Elementary Processes
Cascade-Type Reentrance: The Major Connectivity Principle of the Neocortex
Peripheral Axotomy Challenges the Central Motor Neuron and its Cellular Microenvironment
Frequency and Amplitude Codes of Neuronal Signals
Balance and Imbalance of Transsynaptic Neurotransmission as Conditions for Normal and Pathological Behaviour: Examples Only
Behavioural Pharmacology of Brain Glutamate
Effects of CO2 on Neuronal Functions
The R-Wave Biography of a Brain Potential
The Proton-Activated Sodium Current: Activation Conditions in Mammalian Central Neurons
The Impact of Advanced Computing on Medicine
Biomagnetic Measuring Technique: State of the Art and Prospects for the Future
6: Neurological Sciences I (Psychiatry)
Advances in Schizophrenia Research
Cognitive Basic Symptoms of Thought, Perception and Action in Idiopathic Psychoses and Limbic System
Phenomenological Aspects and the Measurement of Negative or Basic Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Evoked Brain Potentials and Psychometric Data in Children at Risk for Schizophrenia
The Order of EEG Activity of Schizophrenic Patients and the Influence of Haloperidol and Biperidene on the EEG Order of Healthy Subjects
Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology: The Use of Thymosthenic Substances in Schizophrenia
Dopamine D2 - Receptors in Post-mortem Human Brains from Schizophrenic Patients
Phencyclidine - A Challenge to Schizophrenia Research
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?
Searching for New Antiischemic Compounds: Theoretical and Practical Aspects
Experimental Intracerebral Hematoma and Treatment with Flunarizine in Rats
"Normal" Alcohol Consumption and Well-Being: Relationship Between Reduction of Alcohol Consumption and Changes in Well-Being
"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
EEG Signs of a Disturbed Voluntary Process Prior to Voluntary Movements in Schizophrenia
7: Neurological Sciences II (Neurology and Neurosurgery)
The Role of the Magnification Factor in the Recovery Process of Visual Field Defects After Retrogeniculate Lesions
Oxygen Free Radicals and Radical Scavengers in Neurology
Immunotherapy in Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Future Prospects
Effective Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis with Cyclophosphamide with Little Side Effects
Neurogenesis and Pathogenesis of Glia: Immunological Studies
Paired Stimuli in the Diagnosis of Peripheral and Central Nervous Diseases
Early Speech Education: An Epidemiologic Study
Hope for a Drug Treatment in Acute Stroke
The Essence of Aphasia - Disturbed Control of Language Production, e. g. in Phonemic Paraphasia: A Quantitative Comparison of Spontaneous Speech in Aphasia and Dementia
Planning Strategies of Intracranial Microsurgery
What Can Neurosurgery Do in 19887
Transcranial Doppler Evaluation of Cerebral Hemodynamics in Carotid Artery Occlusions
Sonography Through the Anterior Fontanelle in Newborns: An Efficient Method for Screening Pre- and Perinatal Lesions
The Severity of Convulsive Behaviour in Rats: Disinhibitory Effects of Cortical Lesions
Electrophysiology of Myotonias and Periodic Paralyses
Protection Against Sudden Infant Death: Home Monitoring of All Infants During the First Year of Life by Means of the Baby protector
EEG Spectra and Evoked Potentials to Words in Apallic Patients.