Ascending tracts

Question 1

What sensation is carried in the dorsal column pathway?

Answer 1

fine touch, pressure, vibration (steretogenesis)

Question 2

What modality goes through DCML pathway?

Answer 2

Sensory

Question 3

Does sensation from the legs travel through faciculus gracillis or cuneatus

Answer 3

Faciculus gracillis

Question 4

Does sensation from the arms travel through faciculus gracillis or cuneatus

Answer 4

faciculus cuneatus

Question 5

Where do the fibres decussate?

Answer 5

medulla (pyramids)

Question 6

What side is the information interpreted by?

Answer 6

contralateral side

Question 7

What sensation does the anterior spinothalamic tract convey?

Answer 7

pain and temp

Question 8

What sensation does the lateral spinothalamic tract convey?

Answer 8

crude touch and pressure

Question 9

Does the anterior spinothalamic tract decussate at the level of the cord or the medulla?

Answer 9

At the cord (but goes up a couple of segments first)

Question 10

Does the lateral spinothalamic tract decussate at the level of the cord or the medulla?

Answer 10

At the cord - decussates immediately

Question 11

What leminiscus does the anterior spinothalamic tract travel up in after descussating

Answer 11

medial leminiscus

Question 12

What leminiscus does the lateral spinothalamic tract travel up in after descussating

Answer 12

spinal leminiscus

Question 13

what does the spinocerebellar pathway carry?

Answer 13

proprioceptive info to cerebellum to coordinate posture and movement of limbs

Question 14

What does the dorsal/ posterior spinocerebellar pathway carry?

Answer 14

lower limb proprioception

Question 15

What does the cuneocerebellar spinocerebellar pathway carry?

Answer 15

upper limb propioception

Question 16

What does the ventral/anterior spinocerebellar pathway carry?

Answer 16

lower limb (deccusates twice)

Question 17

Does spinocerebellar pathway go to the ipislateral or contralateral cerebellum?

Answer 17

Ipsilateral