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What does the iris do?!

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Contract and relax to allow different amounts of light in and out

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What does the lens do?!

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Refract light onto the fovea

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Where is the origin of blood vessels?!

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The optic disk

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What is the macula involved in?!

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Central vision

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What are the two components of the retina?!

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Nasal retina and the temporal retina

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What are the two types of photoreceptors in the eye?!

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Rods and cones

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Which out of the two photoreceptors is involved with colour vision?!

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Cones

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What do the photoreceptors do?!

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Convert light energy to neural activity

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Which photoreceptor is more sensitive to light?!

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Rods

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What happens to light that isn’t absorbed by the photoreceptors?!

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Absorbed by the black cell layer

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What do bipolar cells do?!

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Create the direct pathway from photoreceptors to ganglion cells

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What is the direct pathway in the eye?!

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Photoreceptors - bipolar cells - retinal ganglion cells

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What is involved with the indirect pathway in the eye?!

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Horizontal cells and amacrine cells

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What is the signal transduction pathway in photoreceptors in the dark?!

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Constantly depolarised and therefore constantly releasing neurotransmitters

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What is the signal transduction pathway for photoreceptors in the light?!

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The photo pigment GPCR, is activated

This means GMP’s are made which reduces cGMP’s and therefore Na+ channels close = no neurotransmitter is released

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Does light stimulate or inhibit the release of neurotransmitters?!

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Inhibit

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What is the primary visual cortex arranged into?!

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The cortical module

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What do the blobs in the cortical module do?!

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Process colour

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Where does information go from the retinal ganglion?!

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To the optic nerve followed by the optic chiasm

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What is the main nucleus called that is involved with the retinofugal projection?!

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Lateral geniculate

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Where are rod receptors mainly located?!

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In the periphery

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What does the fovea contain a large number of?!

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Cone photoreceptors

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Are rods or comes convergent?!

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Rods - small signals are pooled together to make a response

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Do rods or cones produce a image with a single photon of light?!

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Rods

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Do rods or cones have higher spatial acuity?!
Cones
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In what form is sound?!
Pressure waves?!
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What makes up the outer ear?!
Pinna Concha Auditory meatus
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What does the external ear do?!
Gathers sound energy and focuses it onto the tympanic membrane
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What does the middle ear do?!
Focuses the energy from the tympanic membrane onto the oval window
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What do the ossicles connect?!
The tympanic membrane and the oval window
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What increases the efficiency of sound transmission to the inner ear?!
Two small muscles called the tensor tympani and the stapedius Flexion of these muscles stiffens the ossicles and reduces the amount of sound energy transmitted to the cochlea
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What does the cochlea do?!
Amplifies sound waves and converts them into neural signals
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What are the fluid filled chambers of the cochlea called?!
Scalar media Scala tympani Scala vestibule
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What does the motion of the travelling wave do?!
Displaces the hair on the basilar membrane | This bends the sterocilla causing the potassium ion channels to open and potassium moves in
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How does information from the cochlea reach the brainstem?!
Auditory nerve enters the brainstem and then branches to innervate the three divisions of the cochlea nucleus
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What happens when the sterocilla are disturbed?!
You get mechanoelectrical transduction
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Which nerve converts auditory information to the brain?!
Cranial nerve VIII
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Where are the ossicles located?!
The middle ear
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What are chemical stimuli called?!
Odourants
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How are the olfactory bulb and receptors connected?!
Via the olfactory nerve
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Which cortex is involved with smell?!
The pyriform cortex in the temporal lobe - relayed to the thalamus
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Where does transduction of olfactory information occur?!
In the olfactory epithelium
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Describe the olfactory receptor neurones.
Small diameter Bipolar Unmyelinated
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How can olfactory receptors get damaged?!
They have direct access to odourants including airborne pollutants etc.
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What do olfactory receptor neurones express?!
Olfactory specific G-protein
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What does the olfactory specific G protein activate?!
Agenylate cyclase which produced cAMP, this opens cyclic nucleotide-gated channels which allows sodium and calcium to enter, chloride channels also open causing depolarisation - action potential
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What do the axons that leave the epithelium form?!
Make up the olfactory nerve (cranial nerve I)
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Where is the auditory complex located?!
Superior temporal gyrus in the temporal lobe of the brain
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What does the olfactory epithelium line?!
Nasal cavity below the cribform plate
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What are the three types of taste buds?!
Circumvallate papillae Foliate papillae Fungiform papillae
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What are the circumvillate papillae?!
The largest taste buds, contain thousands of taste buds and are located at the posterior
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What are the foliate papillae?!
Elongated structure | Posterior lateral edge
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What are the fungiform papillae?!
Smallest Widespread across the anterior Tip of the tongue
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What are the basic tastes?!
Salty, sweet, bitter, sour and urmani | Located across all areas of the tongue
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Where do the first order neurones for taste project to?!
Medulla
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Where do 2nd order neurones for taste project to?!
Thalamus
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Where do third order neurones for taste project to?!
Gustatory cortex
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Where are taste buds found?!
Palate, pharynx and larynx
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What is urmani the taste of?!
Monosodium glutamate
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Where is the fovea located?!
Central region of the retina
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What is the endolymph rich in?!
Potassium ions (ions move from the endolymph into the cell)
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Where is the auditory complex located?!
The superior temporal gyrus
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What does the production of cAMP in the olfactory pathway do?!
Opens the cationic channels = move in Opens chloride ions = move out Causes depolarisation
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Where do olfactory signals go?!
``` Orbitofrontal cortex Thalamus Hypothalamus Hippocampal formation (All above are indirect) Amygdala ```
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What connects the olfactory bulb to its targets?!
Olfactory tract
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What connects the olfactory receptors to the olfactory bulb?!
Olfactory nerve (cranial nerve I)

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