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Proprioception

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Feedback to the spinal cord from muscles receptors when in activity

2
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Receptors charged with Proprioception, type of signal

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Golgi tendon (tension) and muscle spindle (stretch and length)

3
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Flaccid paralysis what is it

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no reflexes below an injury

4
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Controllers of the controllers: part 1 cortex (name and function)

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SMA: internally generated movement
PMC: External stimuly

5
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Where are Mirror Neurons?

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in the Premotor cortex (PMC)

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Controllers of the controllers: part 2 subcortex (name and function)

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Cerebellum: excitatory learning to aim a violin at a moving cat while you dance to a waltz (skilled movements, motor learning, timing, aiming at a moving target)
Basal ganglia: inhibitory

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Huntington’s disease symptoms and cause

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Dance macabre, problems with concentration. Damage to the striatum (caudte nucleus + putamen) in the basal ganglia

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Parkinson’s disease symptoms and cause

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Hypokinesia and Bradikinesia= rigid and slow movements

Damage to the substantial nigra in the Basal Ganglia

9
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Treatments to Parkinson’s disease

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1- LDOPA: increases excitatory connections
2- Pallidotomy: decreases inhibitory connections
3 - Deep brain stimulation: a pacemaker for the basal ganglia, does the substantial nigra’s job (?)