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Chapter 16 - Nervous System: Senses Flashcards

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what is each unique type of sensation called?

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sensory modality

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what are the general senses?

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Somatic senses 
-Tactile - touch, pressure, vibration, itch, tickle
-thermal sensations - warm / cold
-Pain
-proprioception  
Visceral senses 
-Info about internal organs
**scattered throughout body
**simple structures
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what are the special senses?

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Smell
taste
vision 
hearing 
equilibrium and balance
**concentrated in specific locations in the head
**anatomically distinct structures
**form complex pathways
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where does sensation begin?

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  • sensory receptor = specialized cell OR dendrites of a neuron
  • *Receptors are selective – only respond to one type of stimulus
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Exteroceptors

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near external surfaces of body respond to eternal stimuli

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Interoceptors (visceroceptors)

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internal environment
(In blood vessels, organs, muscles)
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proprioceptors

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tells you position of limbs and body in space

Muscles, tendons, joints, inner ear

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what are the 3 sensory receptors named by location?

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Exteroceptors
Interoceptors (visceroceptors)
proprioceptors

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what are the 6 sensory receptors named by action?

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1) Mechanoreceptors – responds to deformation
2) Thermoreceptors- respond to temperature
3) Nociceptors – respond to pain
4) Photoreceptors – respond to light
5) Chemoreceptors - respond to chemicals (tastes, smells)
6) Baroreceptors - respond to pressure

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what is unique about tactile receptors?

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thermo, mechano- or nociceceptors located in the skin

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describe nociceptors

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  • chemoreceptive, free-nerve endings
  • Activated by tissue damage from intense thermal, mechanical or chemical stimuli
  • Little adaptation – pain tends to linger
  • In every tissue in the body except the brain
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fast pain

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(acute, well localized) occurs rapidly – myelinated axons

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slow pain

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  • gradually increases in intensity

- Burning, aching, throbbing

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superficial somatic pain

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Receptors in skin

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deep somatic pain

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Muscles, joints, tendons, fascia

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Visceral pain

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-Nociceptors in visceral organs
-Pain is felt in or just deep to the skin that overlies the organ
OR pain felt far from affected organ = referred pain

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referred pain

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pain felt far from affected organ

Ex) heart attack – chest pains and pain felt far from area (arm)

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sensory pathway: first-order / primary somatosensory neurons

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Into brain stem or spinal cord

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sensory pathway: Second-order / secondary neurons

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to thalamus

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sensory pathway: Third-order neurons

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From thalamus to cortex

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describe the distribution of somatic sensory neutrons in the body

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not distributed evenly in the body

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where does motor activity begin?

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in the primary motor areas of the primary motor cortex and other cerebral integrative centers

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Upper motor neuron (UMN)

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-Motor neuron not responsible
for stimulating muscle
contraction
-Connects brain to the upper 
level in spinal cord
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lower motor neurons (LMNs)

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descend to innervate skeletal muscle

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what are the 3 external stimulus's
- light rays - strike the retina of eye - sound waves - tympanic membrane of ear - molecules in the air and food smells and tastes detects by nose and tounge
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VISION: 3 steps for converting electromagnetic radiation into an image in the brain
1) Focus light on the retina 2) Convert photons of light into an action potential - Use photoreceptors 3) Take APs and generate an image in the brain
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anatomy of the eye: Fibrous tunic and parts
Fibrous tunic- outter layer - Sclera -protects internal structures - Cornea- transparent, continuous with sclera
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anatomy of the eye:Vascular tunic
Vascular tunic -middle layer - Choroid highly vascularized – nourishes the retina - Ciliary body changes shape of lense - Iris smooth muscle, central opening (pupil)
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anatomy of the eye: Nervous tunic
Nervous Tunic – inner layer (contains many neurons) - Retina - light deflected here - Fovea - small central area of retina, Area of sharpest vision, contains Photoreceptor cells – rods and cons - Optic disc – where CNII exits the eye
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Vision - what does normal image formation depend on?
- Refraction of light waves - Accommodation of the lens - Construction of pupil - Convergence of 2 eyes
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Vision: step A: how does the retina focus light?
- Light entering the eye will be bent by cornea (refraction) - the lens must change shape to focus light on the retina - Correction are accomplished using a positive (convex) or a negative (concave) lens
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What are the two types of photoreceptors and where are they located?
1) Rods – in periphery of Retina 2) Cones – more abundant in central areas and fovea - retina
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rod - shaped photoreceptors
- Adapt to low light - High sensitivity – don’t need a lot of light to produce AP - Produce low resolution, black and white images
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cone- shaped photoreceptors
-Function in high-light -Produce high resolution, color images -3 varieties of cones: (pick up different light waves) -Red -Green -Blue * If your missing one of these – results in color blindness - high concentration in central fovea (digit in centre of retina)
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Vision: step B: Convert photons of light into an action potential
* visual transduction - Light is focused on the retina - Must be converted by photopigments in photoreceptors into signals the brain can interpret - Photons AP - Rods have rhodopsin as the photopigment - Cones have 3 different photopigments - Photopigment = pigment that is sensitive to light
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3 main steps of visual transduction. (in light)
- In light: 1) Isomerization - absrption of a photon of light causes cis-retinal to straighten to trans-retinal 2) Bleaching - trans-retinal separation from opsin - opsin has no color = bleaching 3) Regeneration an enzyme converts trans-cis retinal, binds back on opsin
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rhodopsin bleaching causes what?
- Process of bleaching causes Na+ channels to close | - Closes Na+ channels = hyperpolarization of plasma membrane
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process of visual transduction. (in dark)
- In darkness, retinal has a bent shape called cis-retinal - Na+ channels are open - Photoreceptor cell is depolarized - Inhibitory neurotransmitter is released - Bipolar cell is inhibited - No signal is sent on to the ganglion cell or brain
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process of visual transduction. (in light)
- Na+ channels close - Photoreceptor cell is hyperpolarized - Ca+ channels stay closed and inhibitory NT is NOT released - Bipolar cell depolarized - Excitatory NT to ganglion cell and brain
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VISION: Step C: Take APs and generate an image in the brain
- graded potentials generated by the photoreceptors undergo considerable processing at synapses - The axons of retinal ganglion cells provide output that travels back “towards the light”, exiting the eyeball through optic nerve
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describe the process of processing of visual
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