Are all reflex actions controlled by the spinal cord?

Spinal cord integrates many basic reflexes• Serve as a link for transmission of information b/w the brain and the remainder of body.• Integrate reflex activity b/w afferent input and efferent output without involving the brain. read more

In all this the brain is the power, and the cord the conductor ; but, as well as this, the cord has a special function —that of reflex action. If the connection of the cord with the brain be severed, and the skin supplied by afferent nerves below the injured part be irritated, movement will be produced in the part supplied by efferent nerves from the same part of the cord. read more

Spinal cord motor control involves: 1) reflex muscle movement, 2) the function of the spinal cord to allow there to be higher center modulation of muscle function, and 3) higher center awareness of what the muscle is doing. read more