HIGHER-ORDER MOTOR DISORDERS: FROM NEUROANATOMY & NEUROBIOLOGY

• Provides authoritative views on complex subject matter and serves as a state of the art clinical assessment of the higher order motor disorders
• Includes many clinical cases and surveys on the experimental basis of motor disorders leading to a greater understanding of higher motor order abnormalities of motor behaviour
• Gives insight on how neurological disorders merge with psychiatric disorders and provides a new methodology for the study of psychiatric disease

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of higher-order motor disorders. It introduces new concepts emerging from basic neurosciences and shows how they have impacted on the field of cognitive motor control and led to new vistas for the understanding of Higher-order Motor Disorders far beyond the traditional field of topological diagnosis. It describes in detail a wide range of clinical disorders including those of bimanual co-ordination, apraxia and sensorimotor transformation deficits, motor neglect, anarchic hand syndrome, imitation and utilisation behaviours, action motivational and action monitoring disorders, as well as new approaches to motor cortex plasticity and reorganisation and rehabilitation of complex movement problems. The book reviews the topic, starting with a description of the neuroanatomical, neurobiological and cognitive basis of normal motor behaviours, before moving on to cover the clinical features of the disordered states. The final chapters cover the issues of plasticity and recovery, pharmacological treatments and rehabilitation.

This volume will stimulate research and foster new insights into cognitive and motivational motor disorders. With expert contributions from the major international centres in Europe and the Americas his book gives a truly new framework for a complex and confusing field.

Readership: Neurologists, cognitive neurologists, neurophysiologists, psychiatrists and others involved in movement disorders such as rehabilitation specialists

Contents

Introduction
Part I: Neuroanatomical, Neurobiological and Cognitive Basis
1 Stefan Geye & Karl Zilles: Functional neuroanatomy of the human motor cortex
2 Roberto Caminiti, Stefano Ferraina, Alejandra Battaglia-Meyer, Massimo Mascaro & Yves Burnod: Parallel parietofrontal circuits for sensorimotor transformation
3 M. Desmurget, F. Baraduc & E. Guigon: The planning and control of reaching and grasping movements
4 Dris Boussaoud: The premotor cortex: from attention to intention
5 Gunther Knoblich & Wolfgang Prinz: Linking perception and action: an ideomotor approach
6 Jeremy D. Schmahmann: Cerebellar motor and cognitive functions
7 Mark Hallett: Motor learning
8 Giacomo Rizzolatti & Luciano Fadiga: The mirror-neuron system and action recognition
9 Marc Jeannerod: Levels of representation of goal-directed actions
Part II: Clinical studies of higher-order motor disorders
10 John Noth & C. Fromm: Corticospinal deficits
11 Mario Wiesendanger: Bimanual coordination and its disorders
12 John G. Nutt: Higher-order disorders of gait
13 Ray D. Kent: Speech motor control and its disorders
14 Patrick Haggard & Daniel M. Wolpert: Disorders of body schema
15 Gereon Fink & John Marshall: Motor aspects of unilateral neglect and related disorders
16 Sergio Della-Sala & Clelia Marchetti: Anarchic hand
17 Ramon Leiguarda: Apraxias as traditionally defined
18 Hans-Joachim Freund: Unimodal sensory-motor transformation disorders
19 Elena Deprati & Angela Sirigu: Action recognition disorders following parietal damage
20 Bernard Pillon & Bruno Dubois: From the grasping reflex to the environmental dependency syndrome
21 Joseph Jankovic: Tics and stereotypes
22 Tamara Pringheim, Robert Chen & Antony Lang: Psychogenic motor disorders
23 Facundo Mane & Ramon Leiguarda: Fronto-striatal circuits and disorders of goal-directed actions
24 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Delusions of control: a disorder of forward model of the motor system
25 Pablo Celnik & Leonardo Cohen: Cortical plasticity and motor disorders
26 Yves Rossetti, Gilles Rode & Georg Goldenberg: Perspectives in higher-order motor deficit rehabilitation: Which approach for which ecological result?