RT Book, Section
A1 Waxman, Stephen G.
SR Print(0)
ID 1186189950
T1 Control of Movement
T2 Clinical Neuroanatomy, 29e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260452358
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1186189950
RD 2024/04/24
AB All  living  animals  move,  some  movements  are  reflexive,  while  others  are  intentional.  Both  types  of  movement  are  controlled  by  the  nervous  system.  In  more  advanced  forms  of  animal  life,  reflexive  motion  is  based  on  the  transmission  of  impulses  from  a  receptor  through  an  afferent  neuron  and  ganglion  cell  to  motor  neurons  and  muscles.  This  arrangement  is  found  in  the  reflex  arc  of  higher  animals,  including  humans,  in  whom  the  spinal  cord  has  further  developed  into  a  central  regulating  mechanism.  Superimposed  on  these  reflex  circuits,  the  brain  is  concerned  with  the  initiation  and  control  of  movement  and  the  integration  of  complex  motions.