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Functions of sensory systems; choose WRONG
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Monitor the internal and external environment
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Transmits signals from CNS to periphery
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Control of movement
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Transmits peripheral signal to CNS for processing
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Regulation of internal organs
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Which of these are sensory input under general (somatic) sensation?
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Touch
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Pain
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Vision
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Hearing
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Which of these are sensory input under general (somatic) sensation?
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Smell
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Thermal sensation
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Proprioception
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Taste
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Which of these are NOT sensory input under special sensation?
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Vision
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Hearing
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Taste
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Pain
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Smell
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What is true about the senses?
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General senses have receptors distributed over a large part of the body
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General senses have receptors within specific organs
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General senses located in skin, muscle and joints are somatic (touch, pain, temp, etc..)
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General senses located in internal organs are visceral (pain and pressure)
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Balance is not a special sense
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Stages of sensation; choose proper order
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Stimulation, Perception, Transduction, Transmission
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Stimulation, Transmission, Perception, Transduction
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Stimulation, Transduction, Transmission, Perception
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Stimulation, Transmission, Transduction, Perception
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Receptor types choose correct
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Somatic and olfactory senses reception is through secondary sensory neurons
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General secondary receptors release neurotransmitter that bind to a neuron that transmits info to brain
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Special secondary receptors release neurotransmitter that bind to a neuron that transmits info to brain
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In taste, hearing, sight and balance it is through specialized epithelial receptor cells - secondary receptor.
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Choose correct match of location and receptor
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Exteroreceptors - associated with skin
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Proprioceptors - associated with joints, tendons, muscle, vestibular system
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Visceroreceptors - associated with organs
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Exteroreceptors - associated with organs
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Choose correct receptor with the type of activation.
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Nociceptors - respond to changes in temperature
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Thermoreceptors - extreme mechanical, chemical, or thermal stimuli. Pain sensation
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Mechanoreceptors: compression, bending, stretching of cells. Touch, pressure, proprioception, hearing, and balance sensation
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Chemoreceptors - chemicals become attached to receptors on their membranes. Smell and taste sensation
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Photoreceptors - respond to light. Vision
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Division of sensation; choose WRONG
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Which of these are not an attribute of stimulus
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Division of sensations; according to the head
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EPICRITIC SENSATION – identification, localisation, characteristic, strength of stimulus possible
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PROTOPATHIC SENSATION – identification, localisation, characteristic, strength of stimulus possible
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PROTOPATHIC SENSATION – impossible precise identification of stimulus; often connected with impairing factors - crude touch, pain, extreme temperature
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EPICRITIC SENSATION – impossible precise identification of stimulus; often connected with impairing factors - crude touch, pain, extreme temperature
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Modalities of stimulus;
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Modality is encoded by a single pathway.
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Each pathway encodes one specific sense
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Each type of sensation (touch, sound, light, etc.) is called modality of sensation
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Different modality of sensation is transmitted by a specific nerve fiber and determined by where the nerve fiber terminates in the brain
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Location of stimulus; choose correct
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Receptors fires action potential only when stimulus impinges on the receptive field.
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Fine resolution requires large receptive fields
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Coarse resolution requires fewer receptive fields to cover the same body surface area
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Receptive field in skin differ in size and response to touch
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Location of stimulus; coarse and fine resolution. Choose correct.
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Coarse resolution; Certain regions of the body, such as arms & legs, have such very large receptive fields.
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Coarse resolution; Two stimuli separated by as much as 40 mm will be perceived as a single point
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Coarse resolution; Sensitive regions of the body with small secondary receptive fields include the fingertips.
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Coarse resolution; Two stimuli separated by as little as 2 mm will activate separate pathways and will be perceived as distinct stimuli
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Meissner occupy small receptive fields
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Paccini occupy large receptive fields
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Location of stimulus; choose correct
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Primary neuron response is improper to stimulus strength
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lateral inhibition - adjacent relay cells are inhibited from firing by the excited relay cell
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feed forward inhibition - primary sensory cell inhibits directly adjacent relay cells.
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Lateral inhibition increases stimulus contrast
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Intensity of stimulus;
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Population code - more sensory receptors are activated as stimulus gets greater
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Intensity is encoded through the firing rate of receptors
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Duration of action potential code for underlie perception of stimulus strength
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Frequency of the stimulus is encoded by the time course of firing
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Duration of the stimulus is encoded by the time course of firing
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Phasic receptors - long-lasting stimulus will produce a prolonged repetitive discharge in the primary afferent neurons. (pain)
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Phasic reseptors - long-lasting stimulus will produce a short-lived response in the primary afferent neurons.
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Tonic receptors are fast-adapting
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Which of these are NOT tonic receptors?
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Baroreceptors
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Paccinian corpuscles
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Nociceptors
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Poprioceptors
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Choose correct match of somatic sensory receptors to its stimuli.
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Tactile receptors (mechanoreceptors) - receptors detect position and movement
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Thermal receptors - stimuli: heat and cold
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Nociceptors - stimuli: painful touch, cut, extreme temperatures
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Proprioceptive - stimuli: touch, pressure, vibration
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Static proprioceptors - tonic discharge
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Static proprioceptors - phasic discharge
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Pacini's corpuscle;
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Stimulus: deep cutaneous pressure; vibration
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Located in epidermis
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Lamellated corpuscles, single dendrite to layers of corpuscles arranged like
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Pacini's corpuscle is a skin, sensory nerve ending
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Slow adapting
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Meissner's (tactile) corpuscle
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Has a two-point discrimination. Ability to detect simultaneous stimulations at two points on the skin.
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Rapidly adapting
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Numerous and close together on thigh and chest
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Used to determined temp of objects.
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Merkel (tactile) disks; Choose WRONG
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Axonal branches end as flattened expansions associated with epithelial cells
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Responsible for steady-state signals (continuous touch)
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Slowly adapting
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Basal layers of hypodermis
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Light touch and superficial
pressure
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Ruffini's end organ
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Hair follicle receptors
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Does not respond to bending of hair as occurs in light touch
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Hair end organs
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End organ receptor fields overlap; sensation not very localized, yet very sensitive
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Respond to bending of hair as occurs in light touch
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Free nerve endings; Choose WRONG
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Simplest, most common sensory receptor
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Scattered through most of body; visceroceptors are of this type.
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Picks up warm 10-15 times more numerous than cold
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Pain: respons to freezing cold and burning hot, cut of skin, painful touch
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Thermal sensation - choose correct
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Rapidly adapting
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Large receptive area
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Warm receptors: up to 30C, max excitability at 44-46C;
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Thermal signals are transmitted in pathways same to those for pain signals
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Cold receptors: max excitability at 24-28oC;
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Thermal sensation - choose correct
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Warm sensation - Transmission by C fibers
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For each 10C change metabolic rates (temp) alters intracellular chemical reactions more than 2-fold.
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Cold sensation - Transmission by C fibers
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Cold sensation - Transmission by Aδ
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Provide information about tension of muscles
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3-10 specialized intrafusal skeletal muscle cells
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Provide information about length of muscles
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Involved in stretch reflex
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Golgi tendon organ - Choose wrong
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Proprioceptors associated with tendons
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Respond to increased tension on tendon
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Involved in invers stretch reflex
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Provide information about length of muscles
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Stimulus encoding - Choose correct
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Lateral inhibition - Key attributes of the stimulus must be represented in the signals of the primary SN
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Stimulus transduction - Stimulus energy is converted into electrochemical energy
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The stimulus information must be encoded into an electrical signal of some sort. These will result in information about intensity, duration, and location.
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Neural encoding - sensory information must be fine tuned to achieve maximal discriminative capacity
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Which of these are NOT an organisation of the sensory system?
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Parallel pathways
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Relay nuclei and Interneurons
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Hierarchical organisation - different levels (highest at the head)
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Spinal cord and fiber types
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Neural maps - Parts of brain for different sensations
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Somatosensory transmission - Choose correct
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Transmission has specificity and follows topographical organisation
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Cross-over to decussate through 2 major pathways; Dorsal column and anterolateral pathway.
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Starts in the neurons of dorsal root ganglia
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Ends in thalamus nuclei
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Classification of sensory nerve fibers - Choose correct match
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Ia = Annulo-spiral ending of muscle spindle - A-alpha Fiber
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Ia = Golgi tendon organ - A-alpha Fiber
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II = Flower-spray ending of muscle spindle - A-beta Fiber
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III = Pain, temp and other receptors - Cdr Fiber
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Dermatomes; Choose correct
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Sensory supply to skin
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All impulses from the receptors first enter the peripheral afferent nerve fiber.
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After entering the Dorsal Roots it enters spinal ganglion
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Terminates in spinal cord
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Each dermatome is innervated by 2 segments of the spinal cord.
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Somatosensory transmission - Which is NOT a pathway?
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Ventral columns
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Dorsal columns
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Lateral and Anterior spinothalamic tract
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Anterior and posterior spinocerebellar tracts
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Spino-olivary cerebellar tract and Trigeminothalamic tract
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Dorsal columns- Choose correct
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Primary neurons have cell bodies in dorsal root ganglion.
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Fasciculus gracilis: sensations from inferior to midthoracic level.
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Fasciculus gracilis : impulses from above midthorax.
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Carries sensations of two-point discrimination, proprioception, pressure, vibration to cerebrum, and cerebellum
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Axons enter spinal cord and ascend to the medulla oblongata by decussating where they synapse with secondary neurons.
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Lateral spinothalamic tract - Choose correct
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Picks up pain and temperature
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Follows a 3 neuron system, where the primary neuron starts in dorsal root ganglia
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Secondary neuron - thalamus VPL nucleus
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Tertiary neuron - posterior horn neuron
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Anterior spinothalamic tract picks up which 4 sensations?
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Heat
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Tickle
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Itch
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Crude touch
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Pressure
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Trigemino-thalamic tract - Choose wrong
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Fibers join the spinothalamic tract in the brainstem
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Involves Cranial nerve VI
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In thalamus synapses on VPL nucleus
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Carries similar information to that of the spinothalamic and dorsal-column/medial- lemniscal system
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Carries info from face, Nasal cavity and Oral cavity
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Spino-olivary cerebellar tract - Choose correct
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Spino-reticular tract to superior olivary nuclei
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Spinal dorsal columns to nuclei of the medulla
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Starts as climbing fibers on Purkinje cells
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Spino-olivary - contribute to coordination of movement associated with balance
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Both impulses from Spino-reticular tract and Spinal dorsal columns go to cerebellum
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Anterior and posterior spino-cerebellar tracts - choose correct
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Anterior - sensation = Proprioception of muscle,
tendon, Joints receptors . Large tactile skin sensation
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Anterior - sensation = Efferent copy of the anterior
horn motor drive
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Posterior - termination = The same side as its origin. Mossy fibers on cerebellar cortex granular cells
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Posterior - termination = Both side of cerebellum. Mossy fibers on cerebellar cortex granular cells
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Sensory tracts - choose correct
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Cerebellum may reduce the conscious perception of sensations
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Cortex may reduce the conscious perception of sensations
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Spinotectal - involved in reflexes that turn the eyes and the head toward point of cutaneous stimulation
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Corticospinal tracts send branches to ascending tracts and release neuromodulators such as endorphins
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Corticospinal tracts send branches to descending tracts and release neuromodulators such as endorphins
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Somatic sensory area 1 - Choose correct
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Includes areas 3a, 3b, 1, and 2 in postcentral gyrus of the cortex
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Topographic (somatotopic) projection = the feet - near the midline of the brain,
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Topographic (somatotopic) projection = the feet - laterally, near the lateral fissure.
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The cells of the S1 cortex are organized in columns specific to a particular modality.
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The receptive fields of neurons contain only excitatory zones.
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Somatic sensory area 1 (homunculus) - Choose correct
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Regions needing low resolution are represented in the brain in fine detail
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Regions of the body most richly supplied with sensory receptors have the largest number of neurons in the related areas of the neocortex.
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High resolution is achieved by having many small receptive fields on the body surface
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A larger representation in the cortex occurs when less neurons are dedicated to a region of the body.
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Sensory area 1 - Modality of stimulus - Choose correct
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Areas 3b, 1- respond to slowly adapting cutaneous receptors
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Area 1- Deep skin receptors
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Area 2 - deep skin receptors
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Area 3a - muscle spindle, tendon and joint receptors
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Somatic sensory area 1 (homunculus - S1) = destruction to S1 causes inability to ...
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...to localize sensations discretely and judge pressure and weight
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...to judge shapes and forms and to recognize the position of parts of the body.
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...to judge taste and smell
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...to judge texture of material and fine gradations in temperature
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Somatic sensory area 2 - choose correct sentence
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Impulses come from the ventral column system
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Impulses come from the spinothalamic system and S1 area
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Located in postcentral gyrus - posterior and inferior part (area 40 of the cerebral cortex).
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Localization in this area is good.
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Somatic association area - Choose wrong
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Lesion to this area cause inability to recognize own body on same side as the lesion
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Located behind the S1 area - areas 5 and 7
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Lesion to this area cause inability to recognize own body opposite to the lesion
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Lesion of this area lead to inability to recognize the complex forms (feeling for the shape of one's own body is lost).
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Sensory are of the cerebral cortex - choose correct pairing
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Visual cortex: occipital lobe
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Olfactory cortex: superior surface of prefrontal lobe
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Primary auditory cortex: inferior part of temporal lobe
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Taste area: lower tip of postcentral gyrus
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Division of neurons; choose what doesn't belong below.
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Interneurons - characteristics; choose correct
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Salitatory conduction
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Bell-Magendie Law; choose correct
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In spinal cord conduction goes uni-aterally between anterior and porsterior root, in one direction only.
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Anterior spinal nerve roots contain only motor fibers
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Posterior spinal nerve roots contain only sensory fibers
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In spinal cord conduction goes bi-laterally between anterior and porsterior root
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Reflexes; choose wrong
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Somatic motor reflex - goes to viscera
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Somatic motor reflex - goes to muscle and skin
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Autonomic motor reflex - goes to viscera
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Autonomic motor reflex - goes to muscle and skin
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Monosynaptic reflex (knee-jerk)- Choose correct
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Large reflex arc
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One synaps between sensory and motor neuron
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Starts in Ia afferent fibers from muscle spindle
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Complicated reflex
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Duration of the knee jerk 19-24 ms.
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Spinal regulation; choose correct
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Each muscle spindle consists of 10 muscle fibers enclosed in a connective tissue capsule
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Nuclear bag fibers - thicker, 2 per spindle
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Nuclear chain fibers - thicker, 2 per spindle
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Primary - annulospiral endings – rapidly conducting Ia (A-alpha) afferents
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Secondary - annulospiral endings – rapidly conducting Ia (A-alpha) afferents
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Spinal regulation; choose correct
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Static (tonic) response of the nuclear bag region (rapid discharge after fast stretch, less rapid during sustained stretch)
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Dynamic (phasic) response of the nuclear chain region (discharge at an increased rate throughout the period when the muscle is stretched).
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Intrafusal muscle fibers - have gamma-motor neurons (S, D)
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Extrafusal muscle fibers - have alpha-motor neurons
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Spinal regulation - muscle spindle; choose correct
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Only the ends of the muscle spindle contract, due to lack of actin and myosin in the centre
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The mid-portion of the muscle spindle can stretch
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Gamma motor neurons contract extrafusal muscle fibers and plates, contracting outer part of muscle spindle
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Ia fibers only gives nuclear chain fiber
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Reflex patterns; choose correct
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Dynamic response –increase spindle sensitivity to steady stretch
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Gamma motoneurons cause contraction of spindle- stretch of nuclear bag portion – activation of Ia – reflex
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Gamma discharge increases with alpha discharge
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Static response - increase spindle sensitivity to rate of stretch
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Reflex patterns; choose correct
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Gamma discharge with muscle stretch – increase of discharge in Ia
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Dynamic response – decrease spindle sensitivity to
rate of stretch
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Control – descending tracts from CNS – postural control
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Gamma discharge decreases with alpha discharge
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Inverse stretch reflex; choose correct
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Sensory innervation: Ib - EPSP on motor neurons via interneurons
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Activation: passive stretch, active contraction of
muscle
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Receptors: in muscle spindle (nerve endings among fascicles of tendon)
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Very high muscle tension produces – cessation of contraction (autogenic inhibition)
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Regulate muscle force
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Withdrawal reflex; choose correct
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Receptor: in muscle
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Stimuli - nociceptive, noxious, painful
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Response - flexor muscle- contraction (limb is moved away from the range of the irritating stimulus), extensor – inhibition
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Effectors - recruitment of motor units – after discharge
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Center - inhibition of stimulus in spinal cord
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Functions of spinal cord; choose correct
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Regulation of the sensory function, contains motor centers and efferent pathways.
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Regulation of the motor function, contains sensory centers and efferent pathways
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Spinal modulation of impulses performed by sensory, motor, and interneurons in particular spinal segment
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Spinal modulation of impulses performed by sensory, motor, and interneurons among various spinal segments
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Function of spinal cord - spinal centers; choose correct
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Grey matter – neural centers for somatic-motor & sensory, and autonomic-motor & sensory
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White matter – neural centers for somatic-motor & sensory, and autonomic-motor & sensory
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Grey matter – neural pathways afferent and efferent
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White matter – neural pathways afferent and efferent
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Which does not belong as a division of the functions of the spinal cord?
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Convergence and divergence
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After-effect
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Contraction and relaxation
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Summation and facilitation
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Inhibition
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Spinal cord; choose correct
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alpha-motor neuron is a final common pathway, it connects impulses
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Central inhibition - presynaptic is only EPSP
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Central inhibition - Postsynaptic and autoinhibition are EPSP
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Central inhibition - Autoinhibition is IPSP and mediated by renshaw cells
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Inhibitory interneurons; choose correct
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Inhibitory interneurons modulating alpha-motoneurons through (IPSP) renshaw cells
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Inhibitory interneurons in stretch reflex.
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Inhibitory interneurons in inverse-stretch reflex.
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Inhibitory interneurons in withdrawal reflex.
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Use glycine in its synapses
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Afferent pathways to cerebral cortex - Spino reticular tract
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Crosses midline and ascends to brain stem reticular formation
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Projects bi-laterally through intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus to regions of the cerebral cortex
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Plays major role in general alertness and arousal in response to tactile (painful) stimuli
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Does not cross midline before ascending to brain stem reticular formation
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Afferent pathways to cerebral cortex - spinotectal (spinomesencephalic) tract; choose wrong
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Does not cross midline
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Crosses midline
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Projects to and synapses with anterior colliculi, play major role in orientating eyes and head towards visual stimuli
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The tract send fibers to grey matter with axons to post. horn of the spinal cord, can suppress incoming pain signal
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Spinal cord tests; choose correct
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Turck exam - Examines withdrawal reflex in spinal frog
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Brondgest - facilitation and inhibition of the reflex
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Sechenov - Component of the reflex arc
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Turck exam - Relation between strength of the stimulus and response
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Neurological examinations; choose correct
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Always consider left side symmetry
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Consider central vs. peripheral deficits
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Organize your thinking into seven categories
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Organize your thinking into five categories