Control of Human Movement

Mark L.Latash

ISBN 10: 0873224558 / ISBN 13: 9780873224550

Published by Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1993

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First printing. Red lettering on tan boards. 8vo, 380pp. Name written on the first free end paper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Control of Human Movement
• Publisher: Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873224558
• ISBN 13: 9780873224550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

In Control of Human Movement, Mark Latash brings a diverse clinical and laboratory background to his approach to motor control. His work with physiology and motor control authorities Victor Gurfinkel, Anatol Feldman, and Gerald Gottlieb contributed to the comprehensive development of the equilibrium-point approach to motor control. His clinical experiences at the Spinal Cord Trauma Center in Moscow and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago have helped him to better understand real-life clinical problems and their relationship to basic motor control studies.
Issues studied from this compelling and controversial perspective include single- and multi-joint movements; the emergence of electromyographic patterns; the phenomena of motor learning and variability; postural control and preprogramming; and pathological aspects of motor control in such disorders as spasticity, Parkinson's disease, and Down syndrome.

About the Author

Mark Latash is an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a master's degree in physics of living systems from the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute in 1976 and his PhD in physiology from Rush University in 1989. Dr. Latash is a member of the Society for Neuroscience.