the motor system the whole and its parts电机系统整体及其零件.pdfVIP

NEURAL PLASTICITY VOLUME NO. 1-2, 2001 8, The Motor System: The Whole and its Parts E. Otten Department ofMedical Physiology, University ofGroningen, The Netherlandst SUMMARY system through the processes of phylogeny and ontogeny has happened under a strong functional Our knowledge of components of the human guidance. Typical for the integration of biological motor system has been growing steadily, but our systems is the occurrence of multi-path solutions. understanding of its integration into a system is While in machines one particular component may lagging behind. It is suggested that a combination provide the machine with one particular function, of measurements of forces and movements of the biological systems tend to have distributed solutions. motor system in a functionally meaningful For instance, there are often more muscles than environment in conjunction with computer strictly necessary to operate the motions around a simulations of the motor system may help us in joint. When one cuts more and more axons in a understanding motor system properties. Neuro- motor nerve of a particular muscle, the force that trauma can be seen as a natural deviation, with can be produced by the muscle does not decline recovery as a slow path to yet another deviant gradually, but suddenly, when almost all axons are state of the motor system. In that form they may