DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES
9.10 and 9.100 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
SPRING SEMESTER 1999
Wednesday, February 17
Motor Control: Disorders
John Growdon, MGH
Required Reading for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Kandel, Schwartz & Jessell (1991). Principles of Neural Science.
Norwalk: Appleton & Lange. Chapter 42: The Basal
Ganglia, pp. 647-659.
Growdon, J. H., Corkin, S. & Rosen, T. J. (1990). Distinctive aspects
of cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. Advances in Neurology,
53, pp. 365-376.
Schmahmann, J.D. & Sherman J.C. (1998). The cerebellar
cognitive affective syndrome. Brain, 121, pp. 561-579.
Required Reading for Graduate Students (Recommended for Undergraduates)
Alexander, G. E. & Crutcher, M. D. (1990). Functional architecture
of basal ganglia circuits: Neural substrates of parallel processing.
Trends in Neuroscience, 13(7), pp. 266-271.
Supplementary Reading (Recommended for All)
DeLong, M. R. (1990). Primate models of movement disorders of basal
ganglia origin. Trends in Neuroscience, 13(7), pp. 281-285.
Growdon, J. H. Clinical Aspects of Parkinson's Disease.
Tanner, C. M., Ottman, R., Goldman, S. M., Ellenberg, J., Chan, P.,
Mayeux, R., Langston, J. W. (1999). Parkinson disease in twins: an
etiologic study. Journal of the American Medical Association, 281(4),
pp. 341-346.
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