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Define postural stability

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Maintaining position

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Define orienting movements

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Movements that turn the body toward a sensory stimulus

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Define voluntary actions AKA praxis

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Includes speech, facial expressions, reaching, grabbing, holding, playing

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Medial tracts function in
A) Orientation
B) Praxis
C) Posture

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A and C (orientation and posture)

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Lateral tracts function in
A) Orientation
B) Praxis
C) Posture

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B (Praxis)

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The lateral vestibulospinal tract, reticulospinal tract, and anterior corticospinal tract function in what?

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They are parts of the medial tract that function in posture

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The medial vestibulospinal tract and tectospinal tract function in what?

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They are parts of the medial tract that function in orientation

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The lateral corticospinal tract, corticobulbar spinal tract, and rubrospinal tract function in what?

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They are parts of the lateral tracts that function in praxis

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Which tracts function in complex movements?

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Corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts

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Complex movements require __________ projections while simple movements require ____________ projections

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Direct; indirect

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What are the direct projections involved in complex movements?

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From motor control centers to motoneurons

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What are the indirect projections involved in simple movements

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From motor control centers through motor interneurons to motoneurons

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Which tracts are involved with simple movements?

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All descending tracts

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What is the affect of a motoneuron lesion on volitional movement

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Weak or none

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What is the affect of a motoneuron lesion on reflexive movement

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hyporeflexia or areflexia

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What is the affect of a motoneuron lesion on muscle tone

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Decreased or absent

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What is the affect of a motoneuron lesion on muscle appearance

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Moderate to severe atrophy from disuse

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What is the affect of a motoneuron lesion on EMG findings suggestive of muscle denervation

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Fibrillations, fasciculations

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What is the effect of a lesion of descending tracts (corticospinal included) on volitional movement

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None: paralyzed (if corticospinal tract is involved)

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What is the effect of a lesion of descending tracts (corticospinal included) on reflexive movement

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Hyper-reflexia

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What is the effect of a lesion of descending tracts (corticospinal included) on muscle appearance

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Mild atrophy from disuse mitigated by the hyper-reflexive use

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What is the effect of a lesion of descending tracts (corticospinal included) on EMG findings suggestive of muscle denervation

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Typically transient if present

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Medial tracts correspond with ____________ and _________

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posture and orientation

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Lateral tracts correspond with _______

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Praxis

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Motoneuron death results in ___________
no movement, hypo/areflexia, atrophy
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Motor tract lesions result in _______________
no volitional movements, hyperreflexia, no atrophy
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Difficulty of holding a posture depends on what 2 things?
Center of mass and support surface
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What is a "support surface"
Point at which the body touches the ground
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Which of the following positions is easiest and why? A) Lying prone B) Sitting C) Bipedal upright
A) lying prone because it has the maximum support surface
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Which of the following positions is most difficult and why? A) Lying prone B) Sitting C) Bipedal upright
C) Bipedal upright because there is limited support surface
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Center of force must lie over ______________
support surface
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What is the force equation?
Mass x acceleration = force
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Feed forward reflexes are engaged in ______________
standing
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Postural adjustments only occur when there is perturbation or a disturbance of equilibrium - true or false?
FALSE: Postural adjustments occur in the absence of any actual perturbation, precluding any disturbance of equilibrium before it happens
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Somatosensory afferents detect and signal unexpected forces that impact the COM and elicit feedback corrections from _______________
Descending postural motor tracts
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Give the pathway for the descending postural tract
Feedforward adjustments --> descending postural tract --> motor interneurons
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LVST and RST terminate on _____________
Gamma motoneurons--> gamma loops --> alpha motoneurons
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Which motoneuron elicits a contraction?
Alpha-motoneurons
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How do descending postural tracts play a role in feedback?
By modifying corrective reflexes
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Reversal of ___ reflex from inhibition to excitation happens in the feedback by descending postural tracts
lb
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Increased sensitivity of ___ reflex during equilibrium instability happens in feedback by descending postural tracts
la
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What are the postural descending tracts?
Lateral vestibulospinal tract (LVST), reticulospinal tract (RST), and anterior corticospinal tract (ACST)
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What input does the superior colliculus receive?
Primarily visual, but also auditory and somatosensory
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Define sensory-motor transformation
Transformation of sensory input by the superior colliculus into a motor map
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Give the pathway for orienting movements
Sensory information --> superior colliculus --> tectospinal tract --> interneurons and central pattern generators in the brainstem and cervical spinal cord --> orienting movement of shoulders, neck, and eyes toward a stimulus on the opposite side
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Define praxis
Physical actions that arise from cognitive processes, including internal thoughts and perceptions of external events
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What is the function of the rubrospinal tract in praxis?
Fundamental gross movements
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What is the function of the lateral corticospinal tract in praxis?
Volitional movements of skeletal muscles in the neck, body, and limbs
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What is the function of the corticobulbar tract in praxis?
Volitional movement of the skeletal muscles in the oral cavity, larynx, and face
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What is the origin of the rubrospinal tract?
Red nucleus
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Where does the rubrospinal tract cross?
At the midline at the level of the red nucleus
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What does the rubrospinal tract end in?
Spinal cord ventrolateral to the sorticospinal tract
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What does the rubrospinal tract support?
Posture, locomotion, and reaching
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Give the pathway of fine voluntary movements
Cortex (primary motor, somatosensory areas of parietal, premotor, and supplementary motor) --> corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts --> interneurons and motoneurons in the spinal cord and cranial nerve nuclei
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Define somatotopy
Relative cortical area controlling different body parts related to the precision with which movements of the regulated muscles are controlled
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Give the detailed pathway of fine voluntary movements
Cortex --> corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts --> internal capsule --> cerebral peduncle --> pons-pontine nuclei --> medulla-pyramid --> spinomedullary junction
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Voluntary control of muscles on one side of the body depends on neurons in the motor cortex on which side?
Contralateral (opposite)
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What is the function of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the motor trigeminal nucleus?
Muscles for chewing
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What is the function of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of facial nucleus
Muscles of facial expression
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What is the function of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of nucleus ambiguous
Laryngeal and upper airway muscles
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What is the function of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the spinal accessory nucleus (spinal cord)
Muscles used for shrugging the shoulders and turning the head
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What is the function of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the hypoglossal nucleus
Control tongue muscles
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What are clinical signs of a unilateral dysfunction of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the motor trigeminal nucleus?
No discernible deficit, chewing muscles receive bilateral inputs
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What are clinical signs of a unilateral dysfunction of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the facial nucleus
Loss of expressions in the contralateral lower face
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What are clinical signs of a unilateral dysfunction of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the nucleus ambiguous
Deficits in swallowing or articulation
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What are clinical signs of a unilateral dysfunction of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the spinal accessory nucleus (Spinal cord)
Weakness in shrugging the ipsilateral shoulder and rotating the head to look contralaterally
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What are clinical signs of a unilateral dysfunction of the corticobulbar tract at the termination site of the hypoglossal nucleus
Contralateral loss, tongue sticks out toward the side fo the lesion
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Corticobulbar tract ALWAYS controls motoneurons and movements contralateral to the side of origin - true or false?
FALSE; it does not always do this
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Fine control of muscles in the bottom half of the face are important for which activities?
Eating and speech
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Does the corticobulbar tract directly or indirectly innervate the motoneurons that control muscles of facial expression?
Directly
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Is the top half of the human face primarily under direct or indirect motor control?
Indirect
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Is corticobulbar tract innervation of facial motoneurons controlling the upper face muscles mostly unilateral or bilateral?
Bilateral
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What is the advantage of direct projections of the corticobulbar tract from motor control centers to motoneurons?
Support of the ability to deliberately make fine movements
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What is the advantage of indirect projections of the corticobulbar tract from motor control centers to motoneurons?
Support of simple bilateral movements; may support fine movements but requires practice to successfully engage this
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Which is easier, fine control of the bottom half of the face or the top half?
Bottom half
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Control of the top half of the face is dictated by what part of the brain?
Anterior cingulate gyrus
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Control of the bottom half of the face is by what part of the brain?
Primary motor cortex
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What is the outcome of a facial motoneuron lesion?
Cannot move the face on the side of the lesion
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What is the outcome of a supranuclear (above the facial nucleus) lesion
Impacts the bottom half of the contralateral face musculature; can't lift mouth on the side of the lesion to smile; can frown bilaterally
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What is the effect on emotionally motivated movements by a corticobulbar lesion?
Can't make facial expressions voluntarily, but CAN make reactions emotionally
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What part of the brain controls volitional movement of the brain (mostly the contralateral bottom half)
Primary motor and premotor cortices
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What is amimia
The ability to make voluntary facial expressions in response to a command, but not in association with an emotion
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What part of the limbic system control emotional facial expressions of the top half of the face?
Anterior cingulate gyrus
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Which part of the cortex is involved in communication being a reason for action (i.e., people reacting to verbal requests)?
Primary motor cortex
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Which part of the cortex is involved in internal reasons for action (i.e., internal thoughts, emotions, motivations)
Supplementary motor area
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Which part of the motor cortex is involved in external reasons for action (i.e., reactions to objects or stimuli in the environment)?
Premotor cortex

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