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Prominent cortical proven lamprene 50mg, subcortical, and spinal modules and their connections within the sensorimotor networks for locomotor control. Each anatomic region has its own di- ease, the map represents what was, but not all verse neuronal clusters with highly specified in- that is. These regions reflect the dis- patient may solve motor problems by practice tributed and parallel computations needed for and by relearning. Within each tributed and modular organization of the sen- level, but with an eye on the potential for sorimotor neurons of the brain and spinal cord interactive reorganization throughout the dis- provide neural substrates that arrange or repre- tributed controllers of the neuraxis, I select es- sent particular patterns of movement and are pecially interesting aspects of biological adapt- highly adaptable to training. The one certain fact improve walking in hemiparetic and paraparetic that must be accounted for in theories about patients and to enhance the use of a paretic arm. The rehabilitation team must determine how a per- Cortical Motor Networks son best learns after a brain injury. At a cellu- lar level, activity-dependent changes in synap- PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX tic strength are closely associated with motor Neurophysiologic and functional imaging stud- learning and memory. Later in the chapter, we ies point to intercoordinated, functional as- will examine molecular mechanisms for learn- semblies of cells distributed throughout the ing such as long-term potentiation (LTP), neuraxis that initiate and carry out complex which may be boosted by neuropharmacologic movements. After a semblies show considerable plasticity as maps neurologic injury, these forms of adaptability of the dermatomes, muscles, and movements or neural plasticity, superimposed upon the re- that they represent. In addition, they form mul- maining intact circuits that can carry out task tiple parallel systems that cooperate to manage subroutines, can be manipulated to lessen im- the diverse information necessary for the rapid, pairments and allow functional gains. This organization subsumes to gain a motor skill or manage a cognitive task, many of the neural adaptations that contribute I selectively review some of the anatomy, neu- to the normal learning of skills and to partial rotransmitters, and physiology of the switches recovery after a neural injury. It procedures, so rehabilitationists may be able to receives direct or indirect input from the adja- weigh the level of engagement of these net- cent primary somatosensory cortex (S1) and re- work nodes after a brain or spinal injury and in ceives and reciprocates direct projections to response to specific therapies. The cartoon the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII), to map of Figure 1–1 is a general road atlas. It al- nonprimary motor cortices including BA 24, lows the reader to scan major highways for the supplementary motor area (SMA) in BA 6, their connections and spheres of influence.

First buy lamprene 50 mg low price, the visuotopic organization of the primary visual cortex illustrated in figure 3. This suggests that the phosphene space evoked by an implanted electrode array is also not likely to be conformal. If this were the case, then in order to evoke the percept of a line, a complex pattern of electrode excitation would have to be e¤ected. This in turn would require that the signals produced by the video cam- era be remapped to produce a phosphene perceptual space that was conformally re- lated to the visual world encoded by the video camera (Eckmiller, 1997). Of course, if the perceptual nonconformality were not large, then the plasticity of the visual path- ways might be su‰cient to recreate a conformal perceptual space with time and training of the implanted subject. Finally, in order to produce useful visual percepts, one might be required to decompose a recorded video image into an image composed of sets of oriented lines located at specific points in the visual space. Once the input images are decomposed, a visual percept could be recreated by stimulating the neurons with the correct visuotopic location and the ap- propriately oriented receptive field. This notion has been suggested by a number of basic visual neuroscientists and researchers working in the area of visual neuroprosthetics. However, there is little ev- idence to suggest that such a complex signal-processing scheme would be needed to evoke patterned percepts. First, in all the studies done to date on intracortical micro- stimulation, it has generally been observed that microstimulation evokes point per- cepts, not percepts of lines (Brindley and Lewin, 1968; Dobelle and Mladejovsky, 1974; Bak et al. Second, the suggestion is based upon the character of receptive fields, where the receptive field of a neuron reflects its pre- synaptic organization. While it is indisputable that the optimum stimulus to excite a cortical complex cell will be a line of a particular orientation, such a line will also excite a complex pattern of activity in the visual cortex. It is this pattern of activity that will be interpreted by higher visual centers, not simply the firing pattern of the Imaging 2-D Neural Activity Patterns 63 single recorded neuron. We believe that this question, as well as the feasibility of this approach to restoring lost visual function, can be fully answered only with human experimentation. We believe that the development of new arrays of penetrating elec- trodes, like the UEA, can provide the tools that will make this new class of psycho- physical experiments possible.

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