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What is the heirarchy of motor control?

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Cortex: planning
Mid-brain- Equilibrium
Brain stem- Posture
Spinal cord- Execution

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Movements

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Voluntary- skilled, learned, conscious
Involuntary- postural, antigravity

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What are the 2 major groups of descending pathways?

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Lateral pathways and ventromedial pathways

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Lateral pathways

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Involved in voluntary movement of the distal musculature (limbs)

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Ventromedial pathways

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Involved in the control of posture and locomotion

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Corticospinal tract (lateral pathway)

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Controls primary motor activity for the somatic motor system from the neck to the feet

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Lesion of the corticospinal tract

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Inability to manipulate the lips and tongue
Deficit in fore legs (muscle weakness)
Conscious proprioeptive deficit
Spastic paralysis

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Rubrospinal tract (lateral pathway)

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Control of muscle tone in flexor muscle groups (important for newborns)

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Lesions in the rubrospinal tract

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Ataxia (precise aiming at the target)
Impairment of distal movement (impaired ability to grasp)

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Reticulospinal tract (ventromedial)

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Excites flexors and inhibits extensors
Helps with voluntary movement staying at equilibrium

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Lesion in the reticulospinal tract

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lack of anticipatory adaption
Increased reflex activity
Impaired motor movement
Abnormal posture

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Vestibulospinal tract (ventromedial)

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Balancing system in the ear
Works when the body is in motion
Ipsilateral

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Lesion in the vestibulospinal tract

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Loss of antigravity muscle tone
Postural destabilization
Vestibular ataxia
Head and body will tilt to the injured side

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Descending brainstem motor pathways to the spinal cord (rubrospinal)

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  1. Motor cortices
  2. Red nucleus
  3. Rubrospinal tract
  4. Lateral white matter (lateral column) and lateral part of gray matter
    PNS
  5. Distal musculature
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Descending brainstem motor pathways to the spinal cord (Reticulospinal)

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  1. Motor circles
  2. Reticular formation
  3. Reticulospinal tract
  4. Medial white matter (ventral column) and medial part of gray matter
    PNS
  5. Axial proximal musculature
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Descending brainstem motor pathways to the spinal cord (vestibulospinal)

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  1. Sensory organs in head
  2. Vestibular nuclei
  3. Vestibulospinal tract
  4. Medial white matter (ventral column) and medial part of gray matter
    PNS
  5. Axial proximal musculature
17
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Brainstem

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Motor and sensory functions for the face and head regions

18
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What centers does the brainstem control?

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Respiration, cardiovascular, GIT (partially), equilibrium and eye movements (affected by lesions in the medulla)

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Central pattern generators

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Produce the patterns of neural activity that underlie rhythmic motor behaviours
Generated centrally, without sensory feedback

20
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Where does CPG control in the brainstem?

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Breathing, swallowing, chewing, and certain eye movements

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CPG for locomotion

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Walking, trotting, cantering, scratching and paw shaking are within the spinal cord

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Somatotopic map of primary motor cortex

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More than 50% to the upper motor system (face)
Next is hands
Not too much to the feet, legs and toes

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Cerebral cortex

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Primary motor cortex (discrete purposeful movements)
Premotor area (patterns of movement)
Supplemental motor area (bilateral movements, fixation movements)

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Inputs to motor cortex

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Somatosensory, frontal, auditory, visual
Cerebellum and basal ganglia

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What is the function of the supplementary and premotor cortex

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Sends axons into corticospinal corticobulbar tract descending brainstem motor pathways

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Basal ganglia location

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Bunch of nuclei located on either side of thalamus

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What is the function of basal ganglia

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Making of smooth motor movements
Change from one pattern to another
Programming and correcting movement while it’s happening
Postural control

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Corpus Striatum (caudate nucleus and putamen) afferents

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From premotor and supplemental motor areas of cortex, somatosensory cortex, substania nigra

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Corpus Striatum (caudate nucleus and putamen) efferents

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To globus pallidus, eventually back to cortex

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Corpus Striatum (caudate nucleus and putamen)

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For gross movement initiation and visual limb placement

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Globus pallidus afferents

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from the striatum and subthalamus

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Globus pallidus efferents

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To substania, nigra, subthalamus, thalamus and RF

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Globus pallidus

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For motor relay and tonic background contractions

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NTs

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Dopamine (-): substantia nigra to caudate nucleus
ACh (+): from cortex to putamen and caudate
GABA (-): from caudate and putamen to globus pallidus and substania nigra

35
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Basal ganglia lesions produce _________

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Contralateral signs

36
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Cerebellar lesions produce _________

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Ipsilateral signs

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