Adaptation to visual displacement with active and passive limb movements: effect of movement frequency and predictability of movement.
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The study shows that although many features of copulation in decorticate male rats are normal, copulatory success is importantly dependent upon the control of approaches exerted by the normal female rat. Copulation by neonatally decorticated adult rats and normal adult rats was studied in cohabitation and videotaped tests. Seven of 10 decorticate rats and 6 of 6 normal rats sired pups in the cohabitation test. When initially paired with ovariectomized and primed female rats, in the videotaped tests, all normal rats, but only one decorticated rat, copulated. All decorticate rats made movements indicative of sexual interest including: treading on the female's back, passing over the female, and sniffing the female's genitals. After activating stimulation, 5 of 6 remaining decorticated males copulated. After one successful mount the remaining copulatory patterns proceeded relatively normally. Numbers of mounts, intromissions, ejaculations, postejaculatory songs, and the intromission and ejaculatory patterns were like those of control rats, although the decorticate rats had fewer mount bouts and showed abnormalities in the execution of movements. Precopulatory movements were notated, using the Eshkol-Wachmann system, and compared with copulatory movements. Non-copulatory and copulatory approaches were similar, except that clasping appeared to be the key movement involved in the transition of an approach movement into a copulatory movement. The analysis also showed that the females' movements of hopping, turning, and kicking were important for regulating the males' approaches, and were instrumental in the success achieved by the decorticated males. The study shows that although the cortex, insofar as it facilitates the appearance of certain movements and contributes to their efficiency, is involved in male sexual activity, in its absence well organized sexual activity is possible, although this is dependent, in part, upon the behaviour of the female.
The procedure for eliciting movement aftereffect (MAE) involves the subject's adapting to visual movement that subsequently stops. Conventionally, MAE is confined to the area of movement adaptation. However, Wohlgemuth (1911) demonstrated the existence of a type of MAE that had the opposite characteristics of an adjoining conventional MAE; the test area was unpatterned during adaptation and patterned during testing. This spatial-contrast MAE may be connected with the more recently identified induced movement MAE. Unfortunately, the eliciting movements have not necessarily been comparable; Wohlgemuth used centrifugal and centripetal movement, whereas induced movement MAE has generally been rotary. The results of this study indicate that rotary spatial-contrast MAE can be elicited by a display that, with modification, also elicits induced movement MAE and that the rotary spatial-contrast MAE is weaker than the equivalent induced movement MAE.
Human subjects performed simple flexion and extension movements about the elbow in a visual step-tracking paradigm. Movements were self-terminated. Subjects were instructed to increase movement velocity while maintaining end-point accuracy during practice. The effects of practice on the pattern and variability of EMG activity of the biceps and triceps muscles were studied. Initial movements were performed using reciprocal phasic activation of agonist and antagonist muscles as indicated by surface EMGs. With practice, increases in movement speed were associated with larger agonist and antagonist bursts and an earlier onset of the antagonist burst. Decreased duration of the premovement antagonist silence was also observed during practice. Decreases in variability of movements during practice were not accompanied by equivalent decreases in variability of the associated EMGs. Surprisingly, both agonist and antagonist EMGs were more variable in faster, practiced movements. The combined agonist-antagonist EMG variability depended on both movement speed and trajectory variability. Lower variability in movements in the presence of greater variability in the related EMGs occurred because of linked variations in agonist and antagonist muscle activities. Variations in the first agonist burst were often compensated for by associated variations in the antagonist and late agonist bursts. These linked variations maintained the limb trajectory relatively constant in spite of large variations in the first agonist burst. Modifications to impulse-variability models are therefore needed to explain compensations for variability in accelerative impulses (produced by the first agonist burst) by linked variations in impulses for deceleration (produced by the antagonist and late agonist bursts).
CONTEXT: Using constant, variable, and absolute error to measure movement accuracy might provide a more complete description of joint position sense than any of these values alone. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of loaded movements and type of feedback on shoulder joint position sense and movement velocity. DESIGN: Applied study with repeated measures comparing type of feedback and the presence of a load. SETTING: Laboratory. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS: Twenty healthy subjects (age = 27.2 +/- 3.3 years, height = 173.2 +/- 18.1 cm, mass = 70.8 +/- 14.5 kg) were seated with their arms in a custom shoulder wheel. INTERVENTION(S): Subjects internally rotated 27 degrees in the plane of the scapula, with either visual feedback provided by a video monitor or proprioceptive feedback provided by prior passive positioning, to a target at 48 degrees of external rotation. Subjects performed the internal rotation movements with video feedback and proprioceptive feedback and with and without load (5% of body weight). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): High-speed motion analysis recorded peak rotational velocity and accuracy. Constant, variable, and absolute error for joint position sense was calculated from the final position. RESULTS: Unloaded movements demonstrated significantly greater variable error than for loaded movements (2.0 +/- 0.7 degrees and 1.5 +/- 0.4 degrees, respectively) (P < .05), but there were no differences in constant or absolute error. Peak velocity was greater for movements with proprioceptive feedback (45.6 +/- 2.9 degrees/s) than visual feedback (39.1 +/- 2.1 degrees/s) and for unloaded (47.8 +/- 3.6 degrees/s) than loaded (36.9 +/- 1.0 degrees/s) movements (P < .05). CONCLUSIONS: Shoulder joint position sense demonstrated greater variable error unloaded versus loaded movements. Both visual feedback and additional loads decreased peak rotational velocity.
To evaluate whether mouthing movement in the human fetus is related to advance in gestational age and whether such movement is concurrent with rapid eye movement or non-rapid eye movement phases, 26 fetuses from 28 to 41 weeks' gestation were observed for 60 continuous minutes with real-time ultrasonography. It was evident that regular mouthing movement every 300 to 600 msec concurred with the non-rapid eye movement period, from 35 weeks' gestation to term. Random mouthing movements that occurred at a wide range of intervals from 300 msec to approximately 525 seconds were observed predominantly during the rapid eye movement period and were unrelated to advance in gestational age. These observations were discussed in relation to biologic implications.
The goal of this study was to determine whether rapid eye movement and slow eye movement exist during the eye-movement period in the human fetus in utero. We studied 21 fetuses with real-time ultrasonography, 10 from 33 to 36 weeks and 11 from 37 to 41 weeks' gestation. We used the duration of eye-movement unit as a parameter and calculated the cumulative duration from the shortest to a given duration of eye movement per individual case. A scattergram of cumulative duration versus given duration obtained from all cases in each age group was analyzed with piecewise linear regression to search for a critical point(s). Critical given duration points were noted and reached statistical significance at 0.62 second and at 0.76 second during 33 to 36 and 37 to 40 weeks of gestation, respectively. These findings reveal two different types of eye movement: one with a duration of less than 0.6 to 0.8 second and the other with a duration of greater than 0.6 to 0.8 second. These findings are compatible with previous criteria on rapid and slow eye movements, respectively, at 33 weeks of gestation onward. The mean value of cumulative duration at the critical point increased from 29.0% between 33 and 36 weeks to 47.1% between 37 and 41 weeks of gestation, indicating an increase in the proportionate amount of time maintaining rapid eye movement as gestation advances.
Fetal eye movements, fetal body movements and fetal heart rate patterns were studied in healthy fetuses between 25 and 30 weeks of gestation in 21 recordings with a mean recording time of 83.5 min. In contrast with the older fetus, prolonged periods of absence as well as presence of fetal eye or body movements were uncommon. Especially absence of body movements for more than 15 min is extremely rare at this age. These findings emphasize that for the interpretation of fetal biophysical tests, gestational age should be taken into account. A linkage was demonstrated between fetal eye movements and fetal heart rate pattern and between fetal body movements and fetal heart rate pattern, but not between fetal eye movements and fetal body movements. The existence of fetal behavioural states could not be demonstrated.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the start of the synchronized head movement during mandibular movement is evoked by the peripheral reflexes following mandibular movement (i.e. stretch or trigemino-neck reflexes), or, alternatively, is started by pre-programmed central command. Head movement accompanying voluntary rapid jaw opening movement was studied using accelerometers fixed to the upper and lower incisors, as well as electromyographs (EMGs) of the neck muscles. The direction of head acceleration at the upper incisor was towards head extension at the beginning of jaw opening movement in 89.2% of all trials, opposite to the direction of lower jaw acceleration. The onset of head acceleration was later than that of the lower jaw acceleration by averages of 6.2-10.7 ms, and the onset of electromyographic activities of the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle preceded that of head acceleration by an average of 12.5-24.3 ms. These findings suggest that head movement during mandibular movement is not started by peripheral reflexes but by pre-programmed central commands. This may be relevant to muscular discomfort in the neck and shoulder regions of patients with stomatognathic disorders.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the specificity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep eye movement measures in schizophrenics, depressives, and nonpsychiatric controls. DESIGN: Survey. SETTING: Inpatient psychiatric hospital. STUDY PARTICIPANTS: Volunteer sample of male veterans who met Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for schizophrenia (n = 21) or major depressive disorder (n = 24), or male veterans recruited from the community with no history of psychiatric illness (n = 13). Patients with a concurrent RDC diagnosis of alcoholism were excluded. After data collection, three schizophrenics, two depressives, and one nonpsychiatric control were eliminated because of two or fewer REM periods on either of the two recording nights. INTERVENTION: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Computer-detected total night and within-night measures of REM sleep eye movement density, ie, the ratio of eye movement counts to stage REM minutes. RESULTS: Using a 95% confidence interval, schizophrenics, depressives, and nonpsychiatric controls did not differ in total night or within-night measures of eye movement density. Within nights, eye movement density increased across REM periods in the schizophrenics and nonpsychiatric controls; the depressives showed a flatter within-night distribution associated with their older age. CONCLUSIONS: A broad range of REM sleep eye movement densities characterize both schizophrenics and depressives and substantially overlaps the normal range. Abnormalities of REM sleep eye movement activity should not be considered a biological marker for affective illness.
The movement-related cortical electroencephalographic potential was recorded from scalp electrodes in 8 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease studied at least 12 hours after withdrawal of their normal drug therapy, and compared with the results from a group of 8 age-matched control subjects. Two types of self-paced voluntary arm movements were examined: repetitive forward movement of a joystick, and random-choice movements of the same joystick in which subjects had to choose freely the direction in which they were to move the stick (forward, backward, left, or right). In normal subjects, the movement-related cortical potential was larger prior to random-choice movements, whereas in the patients, the amplitude was the same in both tasks. The implication is that processes involved in self-selection of movement are abnormal in Parkinson's disease. This may contribute to the difficulty that patients have in initiating voluntary movement in the absence of any external cues.
This study investigated the effect of lengthening the time the hand remains immobilized on an aiming movement performed by Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and elderly adults, and whether visual information could compensate for the effects of delay. In Experiment One, PD patients and elderly adults kept the limb in a static position for 1, 6, or 10 s prior to movement initiation, both with and without vision of the initial limb position and the movement trajectory. Compared to elderly adults, PD patients had increased movement times and jerk scores, and exhibited shorter primary submovements that erred in initial movement direction. Lengthening the time delay increased movement time, decreased mean acceleration, and decreased the distance covered in the primary submovement for both groups. Parkinsonian patients, however, exhibited reduced length of the primary submovement across delay compared to elderly adults. Occluding vision caused the movements of PD patients to deteriorate on all measures. Although the performance of both groups was enhanced when vision was available, vision was not able to fully counteract the effects of delay in either group. In Experiment Two, participants moved to a previously viewed target to examine movement accuracy. Systematic undershooting of the target as a function of delay was found for both groups. Parkinsonian patients exhibited greater undershooting of the target after the primary submovement both with and without vision. Visual feedback reduced the effects of delay for both the elderly and PD patients. It can be inferred from the results that the decay in position sense as a function of time produces impairments in incorporating the initial limb position in motor planning process.
We examined grip force adjustments during movements of a hand-held object in a young man (BF) with Tourette's syndrome. We directly compared BF's voluntary up and down movements with tics in the same directions. Movement tics were elicited by cueing BF to move either up or down on a GO signal which appeared after a variable delay. During the delay period, we observed frequent tics which were almost always in the cued movement direction. BF's voluntary movements were well coordinated and featured precise and appropriate anticipatory grip force adjustments such that grip force was modulated in phase with movement-induced fluctuations in load. Precise anticipatory grip force adjustments were also observed in all of BF's movement tics. These results support the hypothesis that tics in Tourette's syndrome are purposeful voluntary movements that are well organized and coordinated.
After the completion of a voluntary movement or in response to somatosensory stimulation, a short-lasting burst of beta oscillations (post movement beta ERS, beta rebound) can be observed. In the present study, we investigated if this is also true for the illusion of movements, induced by a vibration at 80 Hz on the biceps tendon. We compared the post-movement synchronization of EEG beta rhythms induced by active and passive movements and illusion in eight right-handed healthy subjects. As a result, a short-lasting post-movement beta ERS was present over motor areas after both active and passive and also after illusion of movement in all subjects. These results suggested a possible role of MI and the somatosensory cortex in the somatic perception of limb movement in humans.
PURPOSE: Retrograde urethrography (UG) is commonly used at the time of simulation to assist in defining the prostate apex. Some investigators have reported that performing the UG introduces error by causing prostate displacement. We investigate the movement of the prostate caused by the retrograde UG. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Twenty-four patients treated with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer who had gold marker seeds placed into their prostates were studied. Marker seed locations at the time of simulation and on the portal images acquired just before the treatment were compared with the locations on digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRR). Movement in the superior-inferior and anteroposterior directions as seen on lateral images was measured from 402 portal images by offline customized imaging software and evaluated using analysis of variance methods for continuous variables and chi-square statistics for categoric variables. RESULTS: "Natural" nonrandom movement of the prostate around an "origin" as defined by markers on DRR was observed. This movement tends to be in a superior and anterior direction, with the average shift being 1 mm and 0.82 mm, respectively. The magnitude of movement in the superior direction averaged 2.88 mm compared with 1.64 mm in the inferior direction (p = 0.04). There was slightly greater movement after the UG compared with mean "natural" movement but the difference was less than 3 mm in either direction on average (difference: superior-inferior = 2.64 mm, p = 0.004; anteroposterior = 2.24, p = 0.035). CONCLUSIONS: Use of the UG induces a small but clinically insignificant displacement of the prostate when "natural" movement is taken into account.
In the present study, we used fMRI to investigate whether event-related preparatory processes of self-initiated and externally triggered movements differ. Twenty subjects were examined with 1000 T2*-weighted images in two consecutive sessions. During the first session subjects performed self-initiated abductions of the right index finger. For the second session subjects were instructed to perform the movements in response to visual cues. Number and timing of movements were matched between conditions. For statistical inference on multisubject level, random effects analyses were performed. Significantly enhanced activity during self-initiated compared to externally triggered movements was found within the left SMA, the left pre- and sensorimotor cortex, the right putamen, the left anterior cingulate gyrus, and the left inferior parietal lobe. The significantly increased activity during self-initiated in comparison to externally triggered movements might represent differential demands of the two conditions on the neuronal motor net during movement preparation, reflecting utilization of precise knowledge when to move in self-initiated movements. Our results emphasize a possible role of the primary motor cortex for movement preparation as observed in electrophysiological studies, but do not support a specific involvement of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as suggested by former block design studies.