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Sensory System — Review Flashcards

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6 subsets of neurological function

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  1. Mental Status
  2. Cranial Nerves
  3. Motor Function
  4. Reflexes
  5. Sensory Status
  6. Coordination, Gait, and Balance (Cerebellar)
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Information goes toward the CNS

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Sensory/Afferent

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Information going away from the CNS

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Motor/Efferent

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4
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Primary somatosensory cortex

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Postcentral Gyrus (Parietal Lobe)

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5
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Brodmann’s Area 312

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Postcentral Gyrus (Parietal Lobe)

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6
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Allows conscious awareness of sensation and ability to localize it;
discriminatory sensation

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Postcentral gyrus (Primary Somatosensory Cortex)

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7
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Understanding of what is being felt

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Somatosensory Association Area

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8
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Executive functioning

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Cerebral cortex

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9
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Little Man

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Homonculus

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10
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Referring to Homunculus: location of the sensation for the Face

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Lateral side

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Referring to Homunculus: sensation for upper extremities and trunk (thorax and abdomen)

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Top of the parietal cortex

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12
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Referring to Homunculus: sensation of the lower extremities and genitalia

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Medial side

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13
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Sensory receptors: pain and temp

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Free nerve endings

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14
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Sensory receptors: light touch

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Merkel discs

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15
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Light touch and entwines with hair follicles

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Root hair plexuses

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16
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Light touch in hairless skin

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Encapsulated Meissner’s corpuscles

17
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Deep pressure and stretch

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Ruffini’s corpuscles

18
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Deep pressure and vibration

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Pacinian corpuscles

19
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Visceral pain, nausea, hunger and fullness

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Pacinian corpuscles

20
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Overall body position during movement and acceleration;

Kinesthetic sense

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Joint position sense/Propioception

21
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Sensors of propioception

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Muscle spindles
Golgi tendon
Joint kinesthetic receptors

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