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Exam 2 material Flashcards

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Forms of sensation

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  • Touch (edges/superficial touch, pressure/deep, texture/sliding)
  • Vibration
  • Pain (sharp, burning)
  • Temp (hot, cold)
  • Proprioception
  • Itch
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Sensory pathways

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  • dorsal root ganglion
  • posterior columns
  • anterolateral pathways
  • Trigeminothalamic tract
  • Spinocerebellar tracts
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Dorsal root ganglion

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  • pseudounipolar sensory neurons
  • cell bodies in ganglion dorsal to spinal cord
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Posterior columns sense what?

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  • vibration
  • proprioception
  • fine touch
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Posterior columns pathway *

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1) primary sensory neuron enters dorsal root entry zone
2) ascends posterior columns (fasciculus gracilis: medial/legs) (fasciculus cuneatus: lateral/arms)
3) synapses on nucleus gracilis/cuneatus in medulla

4) decussates in LOWER MEDULLA

5) ascends medial lemniscus
6) synapses in ventral posterior lateral nucleus of thalamus
7) ascends in posterior internal capsule to primary somatosensory cortex

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Anterolateral pathways sense what?

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  • pain
  • temp-
  • crude touch
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Anterolateral pathways (path!)

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1) primary sensory neuron enters dorsal root entry zone
2) synapses on secondary neuron within spinal cord gray matter

3) decussates within a few levels in the spinal cord

4) travels up anterolateral tract
5) TRACKS (spinoreticular, spinomesencephalic, spinothalamic tract)
6) ascends in posterior internal capsule to primary somatosensory cortex

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Spinoreticular tract

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(part of anterolateral pathway)

  • synapses in medullary reticular formation
  • involved in alertness
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spinomesencephalic tract

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(part of anterolateral pathway)

  • synapses in midbrain periaquductal gray
  • involved in pain modulation
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spinothalamic tract *

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(part of anterolateral pathway)

-synapses in ventral posterior lateral nucleus of thalamus

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Trigeminothalamic tract

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  • similar to posterior columns / anterolateral pathways
  • originates in trigeminal brainstem nuclei
  • travels up trigeminal lemniscus (parallel to medial lemniscus)
  • synapses in ventral posterior medial nucleus of the thalamus
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Spinocerebellar tracts

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  • dorsal/ventral spinocerebellar = leg proprioception
  • rostral spinoverebellar/cuneocerebellar = arm proprioception
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Dorsal spinocerebellar tract

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  • information on limb position to cerebellum
  • type 1a and II fibers enter with dorsal fibers
  • some form spinal reflexes (stretch reflex)
  • Lower body
  1. fibers ascend fasiculus gracilis
  2. synapse on Clarke’s nucleus, ipsilaterally
    1. column of cells in posterior horn
    2. runs through lumbar/thoracic spinal cord, but most concentrated at thoracolumbar junction
  3. ascends in dorsal spinocerebellar tract
  4. Enters cerebellum through inferior cerebellar peduncles

-upper body

  1. fibers ascend fasciculus cuneatus
  2. synapses on external cuneate nucleus (just lateral to cuneate nucleus)
  3. ascends through the inferior cerevellar peduncle (cuneocerebellar tract)
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Ventral spinocerebellar tract

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  1. information from spinal interneurons in lower limbs
  2. starts in spinal cord intermediate cells (near Clarke’s nucleus)
  3. decussates immediatelly
  4. travels up ventral spinoverebellar tract
  5. enters cerebellum through superior cerebellar peduncle (decussates again)
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Rostral spinocerebellar tract

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  1. information from spinal interneurons in upper limbs
  2. poorly characterized pathway
  3. some fibers ascend ipsilaterally entering the inferior cerebellar peduncle, some double-cross and enter the superior cerebellar peduncle
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Spain cord vascularization (major components)

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  • anterior spinal artery
  • posterior spinal arteries
  • spinal artery plexus
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Spain cord vascularization (major supplies)

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  • vertebral arteries form rostral end
  • aorta supplies thoracic and lumbar cord through radicular arteries, largest is the great radicular artery of Adamkiewicz
  • watershed zone (T4-T8)
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watershed zone

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T4-T8

-area that gets the least blood because it is between the two sources

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Spain cord vascularization (Distribution - anterior and posterior)

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Anterior spinal artery

  1. anterior and lateral columns
  2. anterior and lateral horns

Posterior spinal artery

  1. posterior columns
  2. posterior horns
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sensory receptors: adaptation

(rapidly vs slowly adapting)

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  • Rapidly adapting: only responds to changes
  • slow adapting: contiunues to respond
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sensory receptors: receptive field

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  • related to sensory neuron branching
  • inversely related to receptor density
  • tested with 2-point discrimination (feel one or two touches?)
    • more density = smaller 2-point discrimination
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touch receptors

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  • Merkel cells
  • Meissner Corpuscles
  • Pacinian corpuscles
  • Ruffini corpuscles
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Merkel cells

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  • Touch
  • fine touch, edges (static pressure)
  • slow adapting, small receptive field
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Meissner corpuscles

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  • Skin motion, sliding, texture (dynamic)
  • rapid adaptation, small receptive field (3mm)
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Pacinian corpuscles

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touch

  • vibration
  • rapid adapting (dynamic pressure), large receptive fields
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Ruffini corpuscles

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  • Stretch
  • slow adapting, large receptive field
  • Joint capsules stuff
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Proprioception (receptors)

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  • Muscle spindles
  • Golgi tendon organs
  • joint receptors (ruffini)
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Pain/temp receptors

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  • Free nerve endings (peripheral)
  • TRP membrane channels (sensitive to hot and cold)
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Sense receptor fiber types

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  • 1a, II fibers
  • A-beta fibers
  • A-delta fibers
  • C fibers
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1a and II fibers

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  • proprioception
  • muscle spindle
  • large, fast myelinated fibers (~100 m/s)
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A-beta fibers

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  • touch
  • merkel, meissner, pacinian, and ruffini cells
  • large, fast myelinated fibers (~50m/s)
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A-delta fibers

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  • sharp pain, temperature
  • free nerve endings
  • small, slower myelinated fibers (~5-30 m/s)
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C-fibers

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  • Dull pain, temp, itch
  • free nerve endings (unmyelinated)
  • small, slow unmyelinated fibers (~1 m/s)
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Pain vs suffering

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  • pain can be helpful (protective)
  • suffering is not always productive (response to pain?)
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Nociception vs normal sensation

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  • Different systems (pain is not just increased normal sensation)
  • nociceptor pathways don’t fire for non-painful stimulation
  • stimulation of normal pathways maximally don’t produce sensation of pain
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Fast vs slow pain

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  • A-delta
    • myelinated, fast(-er) fibers
    • initial sharp painful response
  • C fibers
    • unmyelinated, slow
    • dull, slow response
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Visceral pain (transmitted through…)

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  • Anterolateral system
  • vagus nerve

dorsal columns

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Visceral pain (referred pain)

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  • uncommon sensation is perceived as coming from a more common location
  • heart
    • chest, arm, face regions
39
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Peripheral sensitization (Mediators)

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Hyperalgesia = up sensitivity to pain

  • substance P
  • ATP
  • Prostaglandins
  • Bradykinin
  • Cytokines
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Substance P

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peripheral mediator

  • pain substance, kind of line pain neurotransmitter. Up regulates pain
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ATP (peripheral mediator)

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  • With pain… should not be in tissue floating around so it means that something is wrong
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Prostaglandins

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peripheral mediator

  • cause pain, as well as up-regulate pain sensitivity
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Bradykinin

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peripheral mediator

  • cause pain, as well as up-regulate pain sensitivity
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Cytokines

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peripheral mediator

  • inflammatory modulators
  • cause pain, and as well as up-regulate pain sensitivity
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Gate theory of pain

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  • (Central sensitization)
  • touch receptors inhibit pain sensation.
  • Compete for pathways
  • smash hand and press on it to make it hurt less
46
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TENS

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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

  • stim theoretically inhibits pain transmission
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Allodynia

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  • Experience normal stimuli as painful
48
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Endogenous pain modulation

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  • enkenphalins
  • endorphins
  • dynorphins
49
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Neuropathic pain

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  • damage to neurons
  • causes burning, tingling sensation
  • difficult to treat
  • better treated with neural-modulators relative to analgesics
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Chronic pain

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  • short-term sensitization: (pull your back and it starts to hurt. you dont rest it so the pathway is strengthed and the pain gets worse)
  • long-term potentiation: pathway is strengthened?
  • psychologic mechanisms:
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COX-inhibitors for pain treatment

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  • inhibits synthesis of prostaglandins
  • NSAIDs
  • ASA
  • Acetaminophen
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Opiates as treatment for pain

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  • replicate endorphins
    • ***work on spinal gating

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