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Quiz 1- Lectures 1 and 2 Flashcards

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Somatosensory afferents carry infro from _______ to _________ via the _________________

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skin surface, central circuits, dorsal root ganglia

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Describe the pathway from sensation to the cortex

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skin, afferent neuron, dorsal root ganglia/trigeminal ganglia, brainstem, thalamus, cortex

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Touch in the center of the receptive field _____ firing

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increases

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Actions requiring lots of cortical circuitry

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facial expression, speaking, and hands

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Can cortical circuits rearrange?

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Yes

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On-center ganglion cells

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increase firing (more APs) when luminance increases in receptive field center

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Off-center ganglion cells

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increase firing when luminance decreases in center

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signal flow in eye

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photoreceptors, bipolar cells, ganglion cells (crossover in chiasm), LGN, V1 cortex

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How do LGN neurons work?

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They have center-surround receptive fields that respond selectively for changes in luminance

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Cells in primary visual cortex

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respond to ‘bars’ or edges, and neurons fire most when bar is in a certain orientation

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Auditory pathway

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Cochlea, spiral ganglion, cochlear nucleus, superior olive, inferior colliculus, thalamus, auditory cortex 1

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Cerebellum

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coordination of ongoing movement

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basal ganglia

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initiation of intended movement and suppression of unwanted movement

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motor cortex

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planning, initiating, directing voluntary movements

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brainstem centers

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rhythmic, stereotyped movements and postural control

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ICM

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intracortical microstimulation– small current initiates excitation of several muscles

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T or F: motor map is more precise than the somatotopic map

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False

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motor map location

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precentral gyrus

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somatotopic map location

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postcentral gyrus

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stimulation of arm regions in primary motor cortex

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movements of arm towards central space

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stimulation of lateral motor areas

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lead to hand to mouth movements and mouth opening

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stimulation of medial areas

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climbing or leaping

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anterior sites in premotor cortex

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defensive and reaching motions

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visual cortical neurons are divided into how many groups and based on what?

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7; based on how much they respond to either the contralateral or ipsilateral eye

BUT if one eye is sewn shut few cortical cells could be driven and retinal and LGN cells were normal; the eye DISCONNECTS from the visual cortex– this is permanent amblyopia or cortical blindness (no effect if done in adults)

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Patient S.M-- calcification and atrophy of anterior-medial temporal lopes and amygdala
cannot recognize fear and no self reports of fear
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somatosensory system
cutaneous mechanoreceptors-- fine touch, vibration, pressure specialized receptors with muscles, tendons, joints for proprioception free nerve endings-- pain, temp, coarse touch
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somatosensation includes
touch, pressure, vibration, limb position, heat, cold, itching, pain (circuits for each modality)-- transduced from skin to CNS
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Dermatome
territory innervated by each spinal nerve-- defined in shingles because shingles associated with dorsal root ganglia -- some overlap
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1a, 1b, II afferents
large and fast, supply receptors to muscles for proprioception largest in diameter and most myelinated, found in muscle spindle
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ab afferents
merkel, meissner, pacinian, ruffini cells-- detection of touch slightly smaller than 1a,1b,2 but second largest in diameter and conduction velocity/myelination
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a-delta and c
smallest, slowest, pain, temp, itch c are UNMYELINATED and the smallest
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does area of skin surface change rate of action potential?
yes, nearer to receptive field's center causes more neural activity
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what body parts have the lowest two point discrimination threshold
(smaller receptive field, more sensitive)-- hands including palm and fingers, face
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slowly adapting afferents
sustained discharge, provide info about size and shape of stimulus
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rapidly adapting afferents
fire rapidly at stimulation and then fall silent; best for changes
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layers of skin from top to bottom
epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous
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order of receptors in skin from top to bottom
nerve endings (pain), meissners corpuscle (motion detection and grip), merkel cell neurite complex (shape/texture), ruffini corpuscle (force, shape, internal motion), pacinian corpuscle (vibration)
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merkel cells
found in epidermal sweat ridges, form and texture, responds to edges, points, corners, curvature, smallest receptive field, slow adapting, 25% of mechanoreceptors in the hand
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meissner corpuscle
close to skin surface, near dermal papillae-- help with motion detection and grip, responds to skin potion, rapid adaptation, small receptor field, 40%
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small and large receptor fields (somatosensory)
small-- merkel, meissner large- pacinian, ruffini
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fast and slow adaptation (somatosensory)
slow-- merkel, ruffini fast-- meissner, pacinian
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pacinian
dermis and deeper tissues, perception of distant events through vibrations, tool use, receptive field is entire finger or hand and it has rapid adaptatio, 10-15% of receptors
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ruffini
least understood, dermis, responds to tangential force, hand shape, motion direction, responds to skin stretch,
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responses when reading braille, most to least specific
merkel, meissner, ruffini, pacinian
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proprioceptors
info about position of limbs and body parts
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proprioceptive receptors
muscle spinfles, golgi tendon organs, joint receptors
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muscle spindles
signal changes in muscle length; afferents coil around intrafusal muscle fibers Primary endingd (1a afferents): largest myelinated sensory axons have rapidly adapting responses to changes in muscle length, they transmit info about limb dynamics, velocity and direction of movement secondary (group 2): sustained responses to constant muscle lengths, static limb position
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golgi tendon organs
signal changes in muscle tension; these 1b afferents are distributed among the collagen fibers forming the tendons
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joint receptors
relay finger position for range of motion protection; around and in joints
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tactile from body pathway
dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway
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tactile from face
trigeminothalamic pathway
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proprioception pathway
spinocerebellar tract
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Dorsal colunm medial lemniscal pathway first order neurons
info ascends in columns ipsilaterally in spinal cord to medulla- medial-lateral bundles fasiculus gracilis to gracile mucleus (the fracile tract is lower limbs, more medial) fasciculus cuneatus to cuneate nucleus: upper limbs, trunk, neck-- more lateral
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Dorsal colunm medial lemniscal pathway 2nd order
internal arcuate fibers are the axons of second order neurons-- they cross over the midline and form one neuron-- the medial lemniscus second order neurons synapse with the incoming first order neurons they synapse at the ventral posterior lateral nucleus vpl of the thalamus
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Dorsal colunm medial lemniscal pathway third order neurons
ventral posterior lateral neurons send axons to synapse in s1 and s2 somatosensory cortex
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Tactile from face first order
cell bodies in trigeminal ganglia, enter brainstem at pons to synapse on the trigeminal brainstem complex with different nuclei processing different stimuli submodalities (principal and spinal nuceli)
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Tactile from face second order
cross over and ascend as the trigeminal lemniscus (tri because divisions are opthalmic, maxilliary, mandibular), synapse at ventral posterior medial nucleius of thalamus
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Tactile from face 3 order
vpm send axons to synapse in somatosensory cortex s1
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proprioception first order
travel with axons in dorsal column bifurcate into ascending and descending branches (dorsal and ventral horns); lower limbs innervate clarkes nucleus in medial dorsal horn
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second order proprioception
travel to medulla and into ipsilateral cerebellum via dorsal spinocerebellar tract, synapse in proprioceptive neurons of dorsal column nuclei
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third order proprioceptive
decussate and travel in medial lemniscus to vpl
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ventral posterior lateral nucleus vs ventral posterior medial nucleus
both in thalamus, but vpl is body and vpm is face
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somatotopic maps- foot, leg, trunk, etc are in a _____ arrangement
medial to lateral
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somatosensory cortex 1 areas from left to right
3a,3b,1,2
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3b and 1 in s1
cutaneous stimuli
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3a
proprioceptors
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tactile and proprioception
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where does info from s1 go?
all go to secondary somatosensory cortex, then amygdala and hippocampus for tactile learning and memory 3a (propioeptors) and b(curaneous) also goes to areas 1 and 2 2 goes to parietal areas 5 and 7 which goes to motor and premotor cortical areas and helps with integration of sensory and motor info
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can cortical circuits reorganize?
yes- after lesion of digit 3 on cortex, cortical region is unresponsive but after few weeks responds to stimulation of neighboring areas- so region 3 disappears and regions 2 and 4 grow in the cortex similarly, after stimulating certain cortical areas, they grow in the cortex
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