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(9) somatosensory, vestibular and olfactory systems Flashcards

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-Sensory projections ascend from the

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spinal cord into the brain through the brainstem.

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When sensory projections travel through the thalamus, they act as…

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which acts as a relay processing station of signals to other brain regions

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What is a pathway?

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Pathway is the receptor to the brain

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What are the skins three layers?

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  • Epidermis: thin outer layer
  • Dermis (thick inner layer)
  • Hypodermis
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What is Glabrous Skin?

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  • Smooth, thick skin on palms and soles of our feet , e.g. finger tips
  • Epidermis = 1.5 mm Dermis = 3 mm
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What is Hairy Skin?

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  • Thin skin populated with hair follicles, widespread

- Epidermis = 0.1 mm Dermis = 1-2 mm

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What are sweat glands?

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  • Eccrine – secrete saline (heat regulation)
  • Sebaceous – secrete complex cell cytoplasm
  • (Primary source of human body odour!)
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What are Meissner Corpuscles?

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Small receptive fields, fast adapting

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What are Merkel Cells?

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Small receptive fields, slow adapting

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What are Ruffini Endings?

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large receptive fields, slow adapting

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What are Pacinian Corpuscle?

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large receptor fields, fast adapting

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What is the ‘Two point discrimination test’ for?

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which skin region is more accurate

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The receptive field of an individual sensory neuron is the

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particular region of the sensory space in which a stimulus will modify the firing of that neuron

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Bell-Megendie Law, in the dorsal the sensory afferents or efferents?

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-dorsal= sensory afferents

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Bell-Megendie Law, in the ventral the sensory afferents or efferents?

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-ventral= motor efferents

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Whats a Dermatome?

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an area of skin in which sensory nerves derive from a single spinal nerve root

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Somatosensory signals are sent through the spinal cord via the dorsal column pathway to the

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primary somatosensory cortex (S1) in the brain.

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What is somatotopy?

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Each part of the skin surface is represented by a specific region of primary somatosensory cortex

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What is “sensory homunculus”?

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(little man) The area devoted to each body part reflects the receptor density in that part

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What is Cortical magnification?

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The receptive fields and cortical representations give more acuity to fingers, mouth, nose and tongue

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Pain and touch are processed by

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separate neural systems, Pain is detected by special receptors in the skin

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What are Nociceptors (free nerve endings)?

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Signal mechanical & chemical pain

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What are Thermoceptors?

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Signal hot and cold pain, Ending of unmyelinated C-fibers

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What are the three types of nociceptors?

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  1. Mechano-sensitive nociceptors (high threshold)
  2. Thermo-sensitive nociceptors (high threshold)
  3. Polymodal (chemo-sensitive) nociceptors
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What two types of firing occur at?

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Two Types: Cold receptors fire when T decreases from 34°C, maximal firing at 25°C
Warmth receptors fire when T increases from 34°C, maximal firing at 45°C

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How are hot sensations detected?

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noxious stimulus detected by nociceptors, not thermal receptors

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What are thermoceptors resting state?

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34 degrees

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Pain perception has two components

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fast and slow

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What is fast pain?

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  • Fast (first) pain is sharp, instantaneous, and tends to fade
  • Fast pain is signalled by myelinated (fast) Aδ(”A-delta”) nerve fibers
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What is slow pain?

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  • Slow (second) pain is delayed, dull, diffuse, and long-lasting
  • Slow pain is signalled by unmyelinated (slow) C fibers
31
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Pain signals travel through the spino-thalamic tract to the brain – runs parallel to…

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somatosensory (dorsal column) pathways

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Pain signals travel through the spino-thalamic tract are…

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  • Afferent to spinal cord laminae I & II
  • Cross midline to contralateral anterolateral column
  • Ascend via direct (spinothalamic) and indirect pathways to thalamus
  • To somatosensory cortex
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What are the two central pain systems?

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EMOTIONAL AVERSIVE and SENSORY DISCRIMINATIVE

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What is the emotional aversive?

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  • Amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, insular cortex

- Mediate perception of fear, anxiety, and

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What is the sensory discriminative?

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  • Somatosensory cortex (S1 & S2)

- Mediate perception of location, intensity, and “quality” of painful stimuli

36
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The vestibular labyrinth answers two questions basic to the human condition:

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where I am? which way is up?

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What are Semicircular Canals?

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head angular acceleration

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What is a Otholiths head?

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linear acceleration gravity

-Can’t stop from firing

39
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Semi-circular canals filled with

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liquid (endolymph)

40
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Rotation of head cause liquid to move

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opposite to rotation

41
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Rotation of head cause liquid to move opposite to rotation which causes…

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-This bends the jelly-like cupula, causing embedded vestibular hair cells to bend and fire action potentials

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What does the otoliths consist of~?

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The otoliths consist of hair cells embedded in a gelatinous (jelly-like) substance, covered with heavy calcium carbonate crystals

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What does linear acceleration cause?

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Linear acceleration (e.g. tilting the head) cause the crystals to pull the gelatinous substance downward, bending hair cell stereocilia and causing depolarisation

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What is the Vestibulo-ocular reflex?

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keep the eyes still in space when the head moves, stops feelings of sickness and gives stability

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What is the Vestibulo-collic reflex?

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keeps the head still in space –or on a level plane when you walk

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What is the Vestibulo-spinal reflex?

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adjusts posture for rapid changes in position, posture and balance

47
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Information about rotation and tilt travels through the brainstem and cerebellum and helps maintain

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posture

48
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Vestibulo-ocular reflex allows maintaining

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gaze while rotating or moving head

49
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Smells are detected by specialised

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Smells are detected by specialised olfactory receptors (6) in the nasal cavity (olfactory epithelium [4])

50
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Olfactory receptors send axons to the

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Olfactory receptors send axons to the olfactory bulb(1) where they contact mitral cells (2) that send signals to the brain through the olfactory nerve

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Olfactory receptors and mitral cells contact each other in structures called

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Olfactory receptors and mitral cells contact each other in structures called glomeruli. Each glomerulus responds to one type of odorant, corresponding to one type of olfactory receptor neuron

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Olfactory receptors have special receptor proteins in their…
Each olfactory receptor has only…

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  • Olfactory receptors have special receptor proteins in their cell membrane
  • Each olfactory receptor has only one type of receptor protein which bind specific odorant molecules
  • This sets of a G-protein chain reaction that causes the receptor to depolarise and fire action potentials
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Signals from the olfactory nerve travel to the

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pyriform cortex

54
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Neurons in pyriform cortex respond to

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odours

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-Olfactory signals are also sent to the

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amygdala (emotional responses)

56
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What are the 5 basic tastes?

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  • Sweet
  • Sour
  • Salty
  • Bitter
  • Savoury/umami
57
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Taste (gustatory) receptors are located in

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taste buds on surface of taste papillae

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Information about taste is transmitted from taste receptors through the

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thalamus to the gustatory cortex in the insula

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