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Essential Clinically Applied Anatomy of the Peripheral Nervous System in the Limbs is designed to combine the salient points of the anatomy of the PNS with typical pathologies affecting the nerves of the upper and lower limbs. The book is a quick reference guide for those studying and treating neuromuscular disease such as neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and clinical neurophysiologists. Readers will find easy-to-access facts about the anatomy of the nerves in the limbs, coupled with clinically applied scenarios relevant to that area being discussed, as well as clinical

Human anatomy. --- Human physiology. --- Peripheral Nervous System --- Nervous System --- Anatomy --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Nerves, Peripheral. --- Nervous system, Peripheral --- Peripheral nerves --- Peripheral nervous system --- Nervous system

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"This book teaches the reader how to properly examine a patient with a suspected focal neuropathy. This instruction includes the pertinent anatomy of each peripheral nerve, clear photographs illustrating the muscular examination, and also discussion on how to approach localization and diagnosis. Because a strong foundation in anatomical relationships is paramount for examining patients with nerve injury, this is stressed in the text and by using numerous illustrations. Readers can and will read the entire book and work to memorize the more common problems and exams they will perform. They will then consult it either before or after examining patients with less common problems"--Provided by publisher.

Nerves, Peripheral --- Nervous system --- Wounds and injuries. --- Diseases --- Diagnosis.

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Neurogenetics --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Peripheral Nervous System Diseases --- Genetic Phenomena. --- Neurogenetics. --- Neurogenètica. --- genetics. --- Neuroscience

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Neurogenetics --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Peripheral Nervous System Diseases --- Genetic Phenomena. --- Neurogenetics. --- Neurogenètica. --- Neuroscience --- genetics.

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Since the latter half of the twentieth century an enormous amount of knowledge about mammalian motoneuron pools has been collected. This progress was enabled mostly by the development of the precise techniques of intracellular recordings in acute animal experiments, many of which were conducted under deep anaesthesia. Recently obtained evidence indicates that anaesthetics used at that times changed certain properties of the cell membrane, which might affect firing of the neuron. Experiments on normal humans gets around this problem, which lets one compare MN firing characteristics in humans and reduced preparations. Firing pattern of human motoneurons is obtained indirectly by recording from a few muscle fibres of a motor unit. Since there is one-to-one relationship between motor unit and motoneuron firing, the statistical analysis of motor unit firing is equivalent to the analysis of motoneuron firing. This analysis, based on the essential knowledge about motoneuron physiology, gained from the direct measurements in animal experiments and verified by computer simulations, allows one to draw conclusions about the physiological properties of human motoneurons. For obvious reasons, the deductions made on properties of human motoneuron from these analyses should be accepted with caution. On the other hand, human experiments provide the unique opportunity to study intact motoneurons during normal physiological behavior. Thus, combining information obtained from animal and human experiments, and computer simulations, gives insight into underexplored problems of motor control. This E-book contains a collection of articles with range of exciting findings on the physiology and pathology of human motoneurons. The collection covers such important issues concerning firing of healthy motoneurons as recruitment and rate coding as well as motoneuron excitability, discusses intrinsic motoneuron properties disclosed by studying double discharges, and provides information on broad spectrum of motoneuron pathology. It is our hope that this collection promotes further expansion of knowledge on human motoneurons.

motor unit --- human motoneuron discharge mechanisms --- axon and peripheral afferents --- excitability --- afterhyperpolarization and delayed depolarization --- Recruitment and rate coding --- motoneuron pathology --- Double and triple discharges