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What is the first step of a spinal reflex?

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Stimulation of a receptor

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What happens after a receptor is stimulated?

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Activation of a sensory neuron

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What happens after a sensory neuron is activated?

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Information processing in the CNS

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What happens after information processing in the CNS?

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Activation of a motor neuron

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What happens after activation of a motor neuron?

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Response of a peripheral effector

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How are spinal reflexes described?

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Organised neural circuit which is contained within the spinal cord and is. reproducible, automatic response to a particular stimulus

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What are the two types of reflex?

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Stretch and withdrawal

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What is the first step of a stretch reflex?

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Stimulation of a receptor causes a stretch (receptor= muscle spindle)

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What happens after stimulation of a receptor causes a stretch?

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A sensory neuron is activated where the stretch occurred

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What happens after a sensory neuron is activated where the stretch occurred?

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Information processing in the CNS (spinal cord)

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What happens after information processing in the CNS (spinal cord)

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Activation of a motor neuron attached to muscle spindle

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What happens after activation of a motor neuron attached to muscle spindle?

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Response of a peripheral effector (contraction)

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What is the muscle spindle involved in?

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Stretch reflex (shortening of muscle) and posture

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What is included in the muscle spindle?

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Motor neurons from the CNS which innervate each muscle spindle

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What is the first step of the withdrawal reflex?

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Painful stimulus

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What happens after the painful stimulus in the withdrawal reflex?

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To the posterior root ganglion

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What happens after the posterior root ganglion in the withdrawal reflex?

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Distribution within grey horns to other segments of the spinal cord and to the brain (more than one synapse)

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What happens after the distribution within the grey horns to other segments of the spinal cord and to the brain in the withdrawal reflex?

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Excitatory effect is relayed to flexors and relax effect is relayed to extensors to cause reciprocal inhibition

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What happens in the brain during the withdrawal reflex?

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Messages received in the spinal cord may be overridden by what is happening in the brain if there is other consequences of the movement

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What is the function of the cerebellum in preparing for and performing movement?

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Coordinates muscles guided by sensory feedback, compares intended movement with the actual result, helps maintain posture and gaze and helps learn and automate movements

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What happens when preparing form movement in the brain?

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The decision made in the frontal lobe is transferred to the premotor cortex and then to the cerebellum

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What does the cerebellum do when performing voluntary movement?

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Compares sensory feedback about the actual movement to the intended movement and signals adjustments to the primary motor cortex

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What happens after adjustments have been signalled to the primary motor cortex?

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Messages are conducted down the corticospinal pathway to the lower motor neurons so that motor units can be activated to cause muscle contraction

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What can cerebellar deficits cause?

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Ataxia characteristic ‘drunken gait’

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What are the two types of sensory inputs into the brain?
Special senses and somatic & visceral sensations
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What are some special senses?
Vision, hearing, taste, smell (& pheromones) and vestibular (balance)
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What are some somatic & visceral sensations?
Touch, pain, warm & cold and body position
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What is an example of direct inputs?
Hypothalamic temperature sensing
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What is an example of endocrine inputs?
Food intake regulation
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What type of neurons are sensory neurons?
pseudounipolar
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What is the receipt for somatic & visceral sensation?
The ending of an afferent (somatosensory) neuron
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What is the receptor for special senses?
A specialised receptor cell
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What is inside the receptor cell?
Vesicles containing a chemical messenger
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What is sensory receptors highly sensitive to?
A particular stimulus (modality)
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What are the four types of information to describe a sensory stimulus?
MModality, intensity, duration and location
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What is meant bu modality?
The type of sensory receptor activated
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What is meant by intensity?
The frequency of action potential firing in afferent neuron
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What is meant by duration?
Duration of action potential firing in the afferent neuron
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What is meant by location?
Location of sensory receptors activated 'mapped' in the brain
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What controls proprioreception?
Muscle spindle controls muscle length, body position, movement and posture
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What are the sensory receptors of the muscle spindle?
The endings of the axon wound around the muscle fibres
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What do touch receptors have?
A variety of different forms and special functions
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What are some touch receptors associated with?
A single hair, the free nerve endings of pain receptors spread more widely in the skin and can respond to stimulation over a wider area (have a larger receptive field)
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What happens when the stimulus is below threshold?
There is no response in the afferent neuron
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What happens when there is an increasing stimulus?
Increases the action potential frequency and it is conducted down the axon.
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What can stronger stimuli also do?
Activate more receptors sn action potentials in more sensory neurons
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What are sensory receptors most sensitive to?
Change
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What do sensory receptors often show?
Adaptation
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What is adaptation?
Decreased output over time in response to continuous stimulation
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What is an example of adaptation?
Thermoreceptors are most sensitive to changes in temperature, some touch receptors are most sensitive to vibration
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What are the two types of receptors?
Tonic and phasic
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What do tonic receptors do?
Are active all the time and the frequency of action potential increases when the stimulus increases
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What is an example of a tonic receptor?
Muscle spindles that monitor and detect muscle length
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What do phasic receptors do?
Occur in patches when on or off
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What is an example of phasic receptors?
Touch receptors activated by vibration
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What is the receptive field?
The region of space in which a stimulus can lead to activity in a particular afferent neuron
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What does small fields and dense innervation do?
Gives good discrimination (detailed and accurate information)
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Fields can...
Overlap, a strong stimuli may activation more than one
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What is modality coded as?
A labeled line
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What does a labeled line do?
Say what type the information is and where it has come from
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What is in integration?
Cerebral cortex, couscous sensation and perception
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What is in afferent neurons?
Peripheral nerve and tract or pathway
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What is the sensory receptor?
Sensory stimulus converted into action potentials, TRANSDUCTION
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What is the post central gyrus?
The primary somatosensory cortex
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What is the parietal lobe?
Somatic sensory association cortex
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What is sensation and where does it occur?
Conscious identification of 'what and where' occurs in the primary region of the cortex (post central gyrus)
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What is perception and where does it occur?
Meaningful interpretation occurs in the association (secondary) region of the cortex- parietal lobe
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What do areas of the somatosensory cortex correspond to?
Areas of the body
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What occupies large regions of the somatosensory cortex?
Densely innervated areas of the body with small receptive fields
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What does the left cortex represent?
The right side of the body and vice versa

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