What are the 3 organization principles of the brain?
How many output systems do we have?
What are some of the conditions that affect the motor system?
What is Human Motor Control?
In which situations will 100% of your brain be used?
What areas of the brain are involved with planning to hit a tennis ball?
CNS consists of 7 main regions:
What is Excitability?
Which cells are excitable?
What are the 3 types of neurons:
Alpha Motor neuron:
What happens if I have a contusion in my spinal cord?
White matter-
How do sodium channels influence the positive charge on the inside of the cell?
How does the cell depolarize?
what is spatial summation?
What is temporal summation?
Convergence
Divergence
Terminating the postsynaptic potential
Glia cells (astrocyte)
Cocaine
Alcohol
Cerebellum and Frontal Cortex
Alpha Motor Neuron
Motor Unit: is an alpha motor neuron and all the fibres it innervates
Motor Neuron pool
Intrafusal Muscle Fibres
Motor Neuron types
cortical motor areas can control alpha motor neurons and the brainstem (higher levels monitoring lower areas)
Tectum (roof of midbrain)
Vestibular spinal tract: 5 accelerometers in ears which land on alpha motor neurons which are set off by gravity. constantly sending a tonic signal to inform you of where you are
Reticulospinal tract
Reticular means web like
Lateral brain stem pathways: GOAL directed movements
not used as much in humans as in animals
Humans have a Lateral Corticospinal tract
M1 Neuroplasticity
PMA lesions
SMA lesions
Imagining a sequence of movements
true or false: the Basal Ganglia made of ganglia
What two parts of the basal ganglia make up the striatum?
Input into the Basal Ganglia:
Output from Basal Ganglia