Books about Afferent from Amazon.com

Significantly revised and updated, the 2nd edition of Muscle and Sensory Testing incorporates precise anatomic testing techniques in a well-organized and easy-to-use format. It features a unique chapter on sensory testing, illustrations of gravity-resisted and gravity-eliminated positions for testing, and a chapter on using observational gait analysis as a screening tool for muscle testing. Photographs of testing procedures and line drawings are included; the line drawings of muscles are now enhanced to show innervations. This new edition also includes a CD-ROM with valuable additional material. Instructor resources available; contact your sales representative for details. * Provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions for manual muscle testing * Superb illustrations help readers visualize how the test is to be performed * Explains testing for trunk and extremity muscles an * provides information on hand-held dynamometry * Enhances knowledge on how to perform manual muscle testing on infants * Presents an overview of the neurological screening exam, how to perform it, and how to interpret the results * Provides the reader with a resource for gait deviations and associated muscle weakness * Contains an evaluation of the most current research in the field of muscle testing..
Price: $61.56 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The control of body movement, balance and coordination is the subject of sophisticated study from the perspectives of neuroscience, engineering, and mathematical modeling. This volume is an advanced text and reference book on the rapidly-advancing field of human movement. It is unique not only in the breadth and authority of its contributions, but also in providing a mixture of synthetic, didactic chapters and rigorously-reviewed research chapters. Biomechnaics and Neural Control of Movement will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomedical engineering, neuroscience, rehabilitation, orthopedics, and ergonomic design..
Price: $172.97 [Notify me when price goes down.]

It has been known for over a century that there is an afferent(body-to-brain), as well as an efferent(brain-to-body), component to the visceral-atonomic nervous system. Despite the fundamental importance of bodily afferent information- sometimes called interoception- to central nervous system control of visceral organ function, emotional-motivational processes, and dysfunction of these processes, including psychosomatic disorders, its role did not receive much attention until quite recently. This is the first comprehensive review of this topic and it covers both neurobiological and psychobiological aspects. The author first defines the issue and gives an historical background starting with the James-Lange theory of emotion, and addresses learning and motivation, roots in Pavlovian conditioning research, and operant conditioning of visceral function. In the second section he reviews recent scientific findings in the neural basis of visceral perception and studies in cardiovascular-respiratory and alimentary interoception. Finally, he discusses several related areas of research and theory including drug state issues, interoception and psychiatric disorders, and bodily consciousness, and suggests directions for future investigation.
The book will be of interest to scientists in neurobiology, psychology, and brain imaging, to indivuals in related clinical fields such as psychiatry, neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, and clinical psychology, and to their students and trainees..
Price: $12.93 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This up-to-date book provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles of motor control and motor learning The authors integrate knowledge from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience to provide readers with a more complete understanding of the multilevel processes that contribute to the acquisition and control of movement skills. Each section of the book introduces the most important theoretical models in each particular area, followed by theoretical principles and illustrations with practical examples drawn from movement, skill, and clinical settings. The breadth of the practical applications will appeal to readers preparing to enter professions that require a strong knowledge of motor control and learning principles. Movement, skill, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, transfer of motor learning, contemporary motor control theories, measurement techniques, application of theory, real-life aspects of motor control and learning. For all readers interested in issues relating to motor learning and control.

.
Price: $52.22 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This text provides an historical and contemporary overview of an active field of neuroscience research on somato-visceral sensation Medical (and indirectly veterinary) implications are emphasized. Extensive revisions have been made since the last edition, including the addition of two chapters. Many significant literature citations have been added for the period since the last edition. The illustrations have been substantially expanded, including a number that emphasize newly applied techniques..
Price: $142.26 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Vagus is a Latin word that shares its root with the word vague. This is appropriate, as much of what we know about vagal sensory neuroscience remains vague and imprecise The number of scientific studies aimed directly at investigating afferent nerves within the vagi pale in comparison with those involved within the spinal afferent system. In addition, because the vagus meanders through the viscera, providing regulatory influences over the thoracic and abdominal organs, experts in vagal neurobiology are typically organo-centric and spread across many disciplines. Advances in Vagal Afferent Neurobiology brings together more than thirty of the world's leading neuroscientists to present a coherent summary of vagal afferent neuroscience obtained within the body's organ systems. By juxtaposing the contributions of many disciplines in a single volume, this work encourages a cross-fertilization of ideas that provides new insights and increased focus on this important topic. The book contains chapters that deal with vagal nerves in the central nervous system, lungs, esophagus, heart, and gastrointestinal tract. It also covers critical aspects ranging from vagus nerves in the embryo to vagus nerves in the adult, and considers activity in individual neurons to whole animal studies of the reflexes and sensations such activity engenders. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular area of vagal afferent neuroscience, and, in many cases, offers details pertaining to specific experiments and techniques. By painting vagal afferent biology with the broadest brush possible, this text offers a unique and useful resource for the student, as well as for the established neuroscientist interested in the visceral nervous system..
Price: $133.19 [Notify me when price goes down.]

A comprehensive and highly illustrated text providing a broad and invaluable overview of sensory systems at the molecular, cellular and neurophysiological level of vertebrates, invertebrates and prokaryotes. It retains a strong focus on human systems, and takes an evolutionary and comparative approach to review the mechanosenses, chemosenses, photosenses, and other sensory systems including those for detecting pain, temperature electric and magnetic fields etc.
It incorporates exciting and significant new insights provided by molecular biology which demonstrate how similar the molecular architecture and physiology of sensory cells are across species and across sensory modality, often indicationg a common ancestry dating back over half a billion years.
Written by a renowned author, with extensive teaching experience in the biology of sensory systems, this book includes:
* Over 400 illustrations
* Self-assessment questions
* Full bibliography preceded by short bibliographical essays
* Boxes containing useful supplementary material.
It will be invaluable for undergraduates and postgraduates studying biology, zoology, animal physiology, neuroscience, anatomy, molecular biology, physiological psychology and related courses..
Price: $109.13 [Notify me when price goes down.]