Lesions as therapy: Rigidity and Parkinson's disease

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 93-106

  Clower, W T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decerebration; Dorsal rhizotomy; Parkinson's disease; Reflex

Indexed keywords

BRADYKINESIA; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SURGICAL INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREMOR;

DECEREBRATE STATE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; RHIZOTOMY;

EID: 0034921184     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jhin.10.1.93.5627     Document Type: Review

References (65)

1. Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits: Parallel substrates for motor, oculomotor, "prefrontal" and "limbic" functions
2. The innervation of striped muscle-fibres and Langley's receptive substance
3. An attempt to remove the difficulties attending the application of Dr. Carpenter's theory of the function of the sensori-motor ganglia to the common form of hemiplegia
4. Is there a pyramidal tract?
5. A contribution to the pathology of paralysis agitans
6. Descending mesencephalic tracts in cat, monkey and man
7. The effect of atropin upon skeletal muscle tonus
8. Posteroventral medial pallidotomy for treatment of Parkinson's disease: Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging features and clinical outcome
9. Muscle receptors and spinal reflexes: The stretch reflex
10. The Sherrington phenomenon
11. Observations on the innervation of the blood vessels in skeletal muscle
12. The functions of the cerebellum. Reprinted from, The Hughlings Jackson lecture, "On Dr. Hughlings Jackson's views of the functions of the cerebellum as illustrated by recent research"
13. The structure and functions of the cerebellum examined by a new method
14. The efferent pallidal system of the corpus striatum. A consideration of its functions and symptomatology
15. Progressive atrophy of the globus pallidus
16. The dual nature of the efferent nervous system
17. A theory of the mechanism underlying inhibition in the central nervous system
18. The psychic manifestations in paralysis agitans
19. Posteroventral medial pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease
20. Über chirurgischen eingriff bei Parkinson'scher krankheit
21. Radicotomie cervicale pour un tremblement Parkinsonien
22. Charles Scott Sherrington: 1857-1952
23. Über die wirkung des novokains auf den normalen und den tetanusstarren skelettmuskel und über die entstehung der lokalen muskelstarre beim wundstarrkrampf
24. Observations concerning the comparative anatomy of the diencephalon
25. The selective effect of procaine on the stretch reflex and tendon jerk of soleus muscle when applied to its nerve
26. The effect of the local application of procaine on the stretch reflex of the soleus muscle of the cat decerebrated by anaemia
27. The experimental production of basal ganglion symptomatology in Macacus rhesus
28. Weitere untersuchungen über die tetanische muskelverkurzung
29. Magnus and DeKleijn phenomena in brain lesions of man: A consideration of these and other forced attitudes in the so-called decerebrate man
30. The human frontocorticopontine tract: Functional inconsequence of its surgical interruption
31. The extrapyramidal system: An inquiry into the validity of the concept
32. Studies in decerebration I. A method of decerebration
33. Muscle tone in Parkinsonian states
34. The rôle of the dorsal roots in muscle tonus
35. The parasympathetic control of muscle tonus
36. Die stützreaktion. III
37. Die stützreaktion. III
38. Percutaneous stereotactic differential radiofrequency thermal rhizotomy for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia
39. On the anatomical constitution of nerves of skeletal muscles with remarks on recurrent fibres in the ventral spinal nerve roots
40. Cataleptoid reflexes in the monkey
41. Decerebrate rigidity and reflex co-ordination of movements
42. Flexion reflex of the limb, crossed extension reflex, and reflex stepping and standing
43. Postural activity of muscle and nerve
44. On the efferent relationship of the optic thalamus and Dieters' nucleus to the spinal cord, with special reference to the cerebellar influx theory of Dr. Hughlings Jackson and the genesis of the decerebrate rigidity of Ord and Sherrington
45. Selective dorsal rhizotomy as a treatment option for children with spastic cerebral palsy
46. The decerebrate rigidity of Sherrington in man: Its recognition and differentiation from other forms of tonic muscular contraction
47. Observations on the nature of the muscular rigidity of paralysis agitans, and on its relationship to tremor
48. Zur gehirnanatomie
49. Progressive lenticular degeneration
50. An experimental research into the anatomy and physiology of the corpus striatum
51. On decerebrate rigidity in man and the occurrence of tonic fits
52. Progressive transneuronal changes in the brainstem and thalamus after long-term dorsal rhizotomies in adult macaque monkeys