Description
“. . . .the correction and upbuilding of the circulation is the essential foundation
on which to correct nervous co-ordination and the nervous and mental diseases.”
Dr. J. M. Littlejohn
Lectures on the Fundamentals of Osteopathic Technique
CONTENTS
- Lecture I–INTRODUCTORY–CO-ORDINATION OF THE SIMPLE REFLEX
The Simple Reflex
Co-ordination in the Simple Reflex
Reflex Latency
Reflex After–Discharge
- Lecture II–CO–ORDINATION IN THE SIMPLE REFLEX (continued)
Summation
Irreversibility of Direction of Conduction
Rhythm of Response
Refractory Phase
- Lecture III–CO–ORDINATION IN THE SIMPLE REFLEX (Concluded)
Grading of Intensity
Reflex Conduction less Resistant than Nerve Conduction
Functions of the Perikaryon
Reciprocal Inhibition
- Lecture IV–INTERACTION BETWEEN REFLEXES
Allied Reflexes
Reflex Complication
Proprio–Ceptive Reflexes
Alliance of Proprio‑Ceptive with Extero‑Ceptive Reflexex
Wider Combinations of Reflexes
Allied Inhibitory Reflexes
Antagonistic Reflexes
Partial Interference
Number of Common Paths
Mutual Indifference Between Reflexes
- Lecture V–COMPOUND REFLEXES: SIMULTANEOUS COMBINATION
Irradiation
Neurone–Threshold
Short and Long Reflexes
Rules Observed in the Spread of Impulses in Spinal Reflexes
The Reflex Figure
The Collection of Fibres in a Motor Spinal Root does not Represent
a “Reflex Figure”
The Receptive Field of a Reflex does not Conform with the
Field of Distribution of an Afferent Spinal Root
Reinforcement
- Lecture VI–COMPOUND REFLEXES: SUCCESSIVE COMBINATION
Inhibition
Interference
Factors Determining the Sequence
I. Spinal Induction
II. Fatigue
III. Intensity
IV. Species of Reflex
- Lecture VII–REFLEXES AS ADAPTED REACTIONS
Spinal Shock
Local Sign in Reflexes
Pseudaffective Reflexes
Bodily Resonance of Emotions
- Lecture VIII–SOME ASPECTS OF THE REACTIONS
OF THE MOTOR CORTEX
- Lecture IX–THE PHYSIOLOGICAL POSITION AND DOMINANCE
OF THE BRAIN
The Primitive Reflex–Arc
The Diffuse Nervous System, the Grey-Centred Nervous System
The Central Nervous System a Part of the Latter
Integrative Action of the Nervous System in the Segment and in the Segmental Series
The Receptive Fields
Richness of the Extero–Ceptive Field in Receptors; Comparative Poverty
of the Intero–Ceptive
Nervous Integration of the Segment
Special Refinements of the Receptors of the ‘Leading’ Segments
The Refined Receptors of the Leading Segments are ‘Distance‑Receptors.
The After-Coming Segments Form a Motor Train
Actuated Chiefly by the ‘Distance-Receptors’
Extensive Internuncial Paths of ‘Distance-Receptors’
Precurrent Reactions. Consummatory Reactions
Strong Affective Tone an Accompaniment of Consummatory Reactions
Receptive Range
Locomotion and ‘Receptive Range’
The ‘Head’ as Physiologically Conceived
The Proprio–Ceptive System and the Head
Nervous Integration of a Segmental Series
Restriction of Segmental Distribution a Factor in Integration
The Cerebellum is the Head Ganglion of the Proprio-Ceptive System
The Cerebrum is the Ganglion of the ‘Distance-Receptors’
Lecture X–SENSUAL FUSION
A. Symmetrical Flicker
B. Asymmetrical Flicker
Uniocular and Binocular Comparisons
