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CNS S1 Flashcards

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CNS

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Brain and spinal cord

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PNS

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Made up of neurons and parts of neurons outside of CNS. Somatic and autonomic nervous system

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Somatic nervous system

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Controls voluntary action via skeletal muscle

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Autonomic nervous system

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Visceral functions such as heart rate, breathing, digestion (enteric nervous system)

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How many nervous are in the CNS/PNS

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86 billion in brain, 1 billion in spinal cord. 100-600 million in PNS

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CNS and CSF route

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3rd ventricle between lateral ventricles > 4th ventricle > central canal

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Grey matter

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Nerve cell bodies, unmyelinated axons and dendrites

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Cell body organization

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Organized in clusters called nuclei

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White matter

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Myelinated axons running in bundles called tracts

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PNS neuron clusters and axons nomenclature

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Clusters of neurons are ganglia and bundles of axons are nerves

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How many neurons are fired at any moment?

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4%, only one AP fires every 6s in the cortex

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Spinal cord

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31 segments, each with a pair of spinal nerves

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Dorsal root

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Carries afferent (incoming sensory) signals

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Ventral root

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Carries efferent (outgoing) motor signals from CNS to body

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Grey matter in the spinal cord

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Mainly in the middle and consists of a dorsal and ventral horn. Have motor and sensory nuclei

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Dorsal horn

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Contain sensory nuclei. Somatic nuclei get signals from skin, visceral nuclei get signals from internal organs

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Ventral horn

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Efferent nuclei. Autonomic send commands to glands and smooth muscle, somatic to skeletal muscle

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White matter in spinal cord + tract components (3)

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Consist of tracts

1) ascending tracts: sensory signals to brain (dorsal)
2) descending tracts: signals from brain (ventral)
3) propriospinal: stay in spinal cord

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Brain stem

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Medulla, pons and midbrain Control centre for many autonomic functions and reflexes.

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Cranial nerves

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Nerves that enter or leave the brain. 3-10 and 12 are in brain stem

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Diencephalon

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Made up of thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary and pineal gland

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Thalamus and hypothalamus

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Thalamus: processes information to and from cerebral cortex
Hypothalamus: regulates behaviour and endocrine/autonomic homeostasis

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Cerebrum

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2 hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum

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Cerebral grey matter

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Cortex, limbic system (motivation and memory) and basal ganglia (movement)

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Left and right hemisphere functions
left: speech, writing, language, math right: analysis by touch, spatial analysis
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Limbic system
Cingulate gyrus, amygdala, hippocampus
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Senses
9 senses. 5 special and 4 somatic
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Special senses
Vision, hearing, equilibrium, taste, smell. Have a sense organ that isn't skin
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Somatic senses
Touch, temperature, proprioception and nociception (pain and itch)
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Transduction
The process of converting stimuli into electrical signals
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Chemoreceptors
Respond to specific molecules or ions
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Mechanoreceptors
Respond to mechanical energy such as pressure, vibration, gravity, sound
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Photoreceptors
Respond to light
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Thermoreceptors
Temperature
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Perceptual threshold
The weakest stimulus that will cause conscious perception in the organism
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Labelled lines modality
The modality is revealed by which axons carry the signal
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Population coding of intensity
Represents stimulus intensity by the number of active neurons
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Phasic cells
Respond briefly to any change and then cease firing. Ex, retinal cells
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Tonic cells
Maintain activity when the stimulus isn't changing
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Phasic-tonic
React to change but don't return all the way to zero firing when stimulus is constant
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Temporal changes
Changes through time, between one moment and the next
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Spatial changes
Differences between neighbouring regions in space
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Edges
Edges convey information between two different areas conveying different stimuli. Can be accentuated by lateral inhibition
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Thalamus exception
Olfactory pathways are the only ones that don't project through thalamus
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Equilibrium pathways
Project mainly to the cerebellum
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Lens
Transparent disk that focuses light and is suspended by ligaments called zonules
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Anterior chamber
The front of the lens and is filled with aqueous humour
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Vitreous chamber
Filled with a vitreous body which helps maintain eye shape
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Cornea
Transparent bulge at the front of the eye that is continuous with the sclera. Lights enter through cornea
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Pupil
A hole in the iris that changes in response to light. Controlled by the pupillary muscle
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Refraction
Allows us to obtain a bright, infocus image. The bending of light.
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Refractive index
Light bends when it enters a different medium. Air and collagen of the eye are different so light bends to make a right angle
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Lens composition
Mesh of long cells without nuclei, packed by crystallin proteins
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Convex lens
Fatter in the middle and thinner at edges. Makes light converge at a focal point
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Concave lenses
Thinner in the middle and fatter at edges. Disperse light
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Accommodation
The process of changing the lens to alter the amount of refraction. Round lens bends light more, closer focal point. Skinnier lens bends light less, further focal point
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Focal point
Must fall on the retina. To bring a closer object into focus, the lens is rounder
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Ciliary muscle
Ring-shaped. Parasympathetic nerves contract the ring, making lens rounder and sympathetic signals relax the muscle, making lens flatter
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Presbyopia
Lens stiffening, hindering accommodation
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Hyperopia
Far-sightedness caused by focal point falling behind retina. Convex lens fixes it
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Myopia
Near-sightedness caused by a focal point in front of the retina. Solved by a concave lens
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How many cones and rods are in the retina
6 million cones and 120 million rods
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Structure of rods and cones
Outer segment: disk-like layers of membrane that contain visual pigment Inner segment: contains nucleus and organelles Basal layer: found in inner segment and contain synapse
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Photoreceptor mechanism
Pigment molecules change shape when light hits, hyperpolarizing the cells and reducing glutamate
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Pigment in rods and cones
Rhodopsin in rods, 3 other pigments in 3 types of cones
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Photoreceptor distribtuion
Most densely packed in the macula found in the fovea
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Cones vs rods
Cones are for bright light, rods are for dim. Cones are less sensitive and can distinguish colours
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Cone and rod distribution
Cones are almost exclusively in the fovea, peripheral retina contains rods
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Bipolar cells
Have center-surround receptive fields, with a round center region and.a hoop surround
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On-center cells
Excited by light in the center of the field, inhibited by light in the surround
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Off-center cells
Inhibited by light in the center and excited by light in the surround
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Bipolar cell projection
Project onto retinal ganglion cells which have center-surround receptive fields
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Magnocellular ganglion cells
Provide information used by the brain to infer movement of objects. Phasic
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Parvocellular ganglion cells
Provide information used to infer form and fine detail
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Melanopsin ganglion cells
Photoreceptors with their own visual pigment, melanopsin
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Optic nerve
Cranial nerve II. When each nerve reaches the optic chiasm, half cross to the other side of the brain (nasal half)
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Why do optic fibers cross
For information from the right hemifield to come together in the left cerebral hemisphere and vice versa
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Optic tracts
Nerve bundles emerging from the chiasm and end in the 2 lateral geniculate nuclei in the thalamus
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What wavelengths do humans see
400nm (violet) to 700nm (red) and powerful infrared light
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Three types of cones
Red, green and blue
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Blue cones
Peak at 420nm and prefer blue light
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Rhodopsin
Peak at 498nm and prefers blue-green light. Doesn't contribute to colour vision
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Green cones
Peaks at 533nm and prefers yellow-green light
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Red cones
Peak at 564m, and prefers yellow light
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Spectral colours
Colours that can be evoked by a light of a single wavelength (rainbow colours)
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Extraspectral colours
Can only be evoked by a mix of wavelength
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R + G cells
Ganglion cells excited by red and green to make yellow
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R - G cells
Ganglion cells excited by red and inhibited by green
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B - R - G cells
Excited by blue and inhibited by red or green
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Daltonism
Red-green colourblindness. Rarely occurs in women
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Reflectance
A surfaces tendency to reflect a certain wavelength of light and absorb others. Doesn't change

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