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Chapter 8: Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain Flashcards

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Sensory Processing

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Sensory receptor organs detect energy/substances

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What question do sensory receptors answer?

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What type of stimulus was that?

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Where does sensory processing begin?

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Receptor Cells

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Sensory processing is ___ and ___.

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  1. Selective
  2. Analytical
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Sensory Receptor Organs

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Organs specialized to detect a certain stimulus.

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Receptor Cells

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Cells within the organ that convert the stimulus into an electrical signal and transmit it back to the CNS.

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Receptor organs are very ___.

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diverse

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What is an example of a receptor organ?

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Eyes

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Adequate Stimulus

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A type of stimulus to which a sensory organ is particularly adapted.

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What is an example of an adequate stimulus?

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Light for your eye

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How do you classify sensory systems?

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  1. Type
  2. Specific modality
  3. Adequate stimuli
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What is an example of the restricted range of sensory systems?

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The frequency range for hearing (varies per species)

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What type of energy do all senses use?

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Action potential

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Labeled Lines

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The brain recognizes distinct senses because AP travel along separate nerve tracts.

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Sensory Transduction

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The conversion of electrical energy from a stimulus into a change in membrane potential in a receptor cell.

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Generator Potentials

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Local changes in membrane potential.

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Pacinian Corpuscle

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A skin receptor that detects vibration.

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What happens when a stimulus is added to the corpuscle?

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A graded electrical potential is produced.

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Coding

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Patterns of AP in a sensory system that reflect a stimulus.

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Range Fractionation

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Different cells have different thresholds for firing, over a range of stimulus intensities.

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Why is range fractionation important?

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Individual cells often cannot reflect the entire range of a stimulus.

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Somatosensory System

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Detects body sensations (touch and pain)

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How is stimulus location determined?

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The position of activated receptors.

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Adaption

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The progressive loss of response to a maintained stimulus.

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Tonic Receptors

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Show slow or no decline in action potential frequency.

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Phasic Receptors

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Display adaptation and decrease frequency of action potentials.

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What is the purpose of adaption?

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Shows changes in the environment.

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Accessory Structures

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Additional components attached to a primary organ.

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Example of accessory structure

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Eyelids

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Central Modulation of Sensory Modulation

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Higher brain centers suppress some sensory inputs and amplify others.

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Sensory Pathway

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Neurons connecting to other neurons.

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Where do most neural pathways pass through?

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Thalamus

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Where do pathways terminate?

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Cerebral Cortex

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Receptive Field

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The space in which a stimulus will alter a neuron’s firing rate.

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35
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What do receptive fields differ in?

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  1. Size
  2. Shape
  3. Response types to stimulation
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36
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How can receptive fields be examined?

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Experimentally

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Initial Receptor Cell

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Relatively small receptive field
- Cell fires more when stimulus occurs in its field

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What happens when you move to higher level neurons?

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You get larger receptive fields due to the convergence of input from multiple sensory cells.

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Center Surround System

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Stimulation of the center produces the opposite effect of stimulation in the surroundings.

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What does the center surround system create?

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A sharper contrast in sensation of the stimulus.

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Primary Sensory Cortex

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Exists for each modality

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Secondary Sensory Cortex

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Receives its main input from the primary cortical area for that modality.

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Primary Somatosensory Cortex (S1)

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Receives touch information from the opposite side of the body.

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Secondary Somatosensory Cortex (S2)

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Maps both sides of the body

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What do association areas in the brain show?

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A mixture of inputs from different modalities.

46
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Polymodal Cells

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Allow for inter-sensory interactions

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Synesthesia

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A stimulus in one modality creates a sensation in another.

48
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Example of synesthesia

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  1. A person may perceive colors when looking at letters
  2. Identify taste when hearing a tone
49
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What system is touch a part of?

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The somatosensory system

50
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What are the 4 tactile receptors that perceive touch?

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  1. Pacinian Corpuscles
  2. Meissner’s Corpuscles
  3. Merkel’s Discs
  4. Ruffini’s Endings
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  1. Pacinian Corpuscles
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Vibration, fast adapting

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  1. Meissners Corpuscles
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Touch, fast adapting

53
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  1. Merkel’s Discs
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Touch, slow adapting

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  1. Ruffini’s Endings
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Stretch, slow adapting

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Dorsal Column System

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Delivers touch information to the brain.

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Dermatome

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A strip of skin innervated by a particular spinal root.

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How are brain regions arranged?

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The body surface plan

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What do brain regions reflect?

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The density of body innervation.

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What can change receptive fields?

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Experience

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What does the cortical map represent?

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The innervation of a body region.

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What happens to the cortical area when the body region is servered?

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It shrinks

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What happens when a body region is completely removed?

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The cortical area for the adjacent regions will expand.

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Pain

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An unpleasant experience associated with tissue damage

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Congenital Insensitivity to Pain

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An inherited syndrome that can still discriminate touch.

65
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Touch and pain are ___ systems.

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separate

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Nociceptors

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Peripheral receptors that respond to painful stimuli.

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Free Nerve Endings

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Located in the dermis and have specialized proteins that respond to temp changes, chemicals, and pain.

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Capsaicin

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The “hot” in chili peppers

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TRPV1

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The receptor that binds to capsaicin.
- detects painful heat

70
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TRP2

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  • Detects even higher temps
  • Does not respond too capsaicin
    Found on Ao Fibers
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Ao Fibers

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Large myelinated axons that register pain quickly.

72
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Where are TRPV1 receptors located?

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On C fibers

73
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C Fibers

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Thin, un myelinated axons that conduct slowly, producing lasting pain.

74
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Cool Menthol Receptor 1 (CMR1)

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Responds to menthol and cold temps

75
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Where are CMR1 receptors located?

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C Fibers

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Anterolateral/Spinothalamic System

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Free nerve endings that synapse on spinal neurons that transmit the sensations of pain and temperature.

77
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Where is pain information integrated?

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Cingulate Cortex

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Analgesia

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The loss of pain sensation.

79
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Opioids

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Drugs that control pain

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Opioid Peptides

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The endogenous neurotransmitters in the brain.

81
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What are the three classes of endogenous opioids?

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  1. Endorphins
  2. Enkephalins
  3. Dynorphins
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Opioid Receptors

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Respond to opiates/opioids

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Periaqueductal Gray

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An area in the midbrain involved in pain perception.

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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)

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Delivers electrical pulses to the skin which relieve pain by stimulating the nerves around them.

85
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Naloxone

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An opioid antagonist that can block the pain relieving effects of TENS

86
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TENS depends on…

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Endogenous opioid release

87
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Placebo

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Can sometimes relieve pain even though it is an inherit substance

88
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What type of pain do C Fibers relate to?

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Long lasting pain

89
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What type of pain do AO Fibers relate to?

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Initial pain

90
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What is releases to cause itching?

A

Histamine

91
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What type of pain modulation system do we have?

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Descending (brain sends signals down body)

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