RT Book, Section
A1 Ropper, Allan H.
A1 Samuels, Martin A.
A1 Klein, Joshua P.
SR Print(0)
ID 57616425
T1 Chapter 9. Other Somatic Sensation
T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 10e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0071794794
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57616425
RD 2023/03/28
AB Sensory  and  motor  functions  are  interdependent,  as  was  dramatically  illustrated  by  the  early  animal  experiments  of  Claude  Bernard  and  Charles  Sherrington,  in  which  practically  all  effective  movement  of  a  limb  was  abolished  by  eliminating  only  its  sensory  innervation  (sectioning  of  posterior  roots).  Interruption  of  other  sensory  pathways  and  destruction  of  the  parietal  cortex  also  has  profound  effects  on  motility.  To  a  large  extent,  human  motor  activity  depends  on  a  constant  influx  of  sensory  impulses  (most  of  them  not  consciously  perceived).  Sensory  motor  integration  is  therefore  necessary  for  normal  nervous  system  function  but  disease  may  affect  motor  or  sensory  functions  independently.  There  may  be  loss  or  impairment  of  sensory  function,  and  this  can  represent  the  principal  manifestation  of  neurologic  disease.