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Muscle Sense

A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System. An excellent resource!

Some Australian jock using my animations

A very realistic look at the activity of spindles and golgi tendon organs by Arthur Prochazka.

Amazing things that neuroscientists do for the cause of science. To determine role of muscle receptors in proprioception, the lead author in this paper, DI McCloskey, exposed and transected the tendon of his own extensor hallucis longus under local anaesthesia and then pulled it with a pair of forceps.

 

Tutis Vilis
Department of Physiology
and Pharmacology

University of Western Ontario
London Ontario Canada

Last updated April 2, 2013
 Comments welcome:
tutis.vilis@schulich.uwo.ca