Homunculus Flashcards
Homunculus motor
Reach region of the primary motor cortex (precentral gyrus)
Provides to all respective body parts
Via efferent, or outgoing tracts
Motor homunculus
Anatomical representation of the degree of innervation
Homunculus distorted image
Innervation of different muscles in different body parts. Varies
Homunculus more or fewer tracts
Coming down from primary motor Cortex, through brainstem and spinal cord to the body
Sensory homunculus
Anatomical representation of the degree of sensory input
That each region of the body provides to the primary sensory strip (post central gyrus)
Sensory homunculus
Via afferent or incoming tracts and it’s a distorted image of sensory feedback form different muscles in different body parts, varies
There are direct and indirect motor pathways from the cns to spinal nerves
True
Direct pathways for motor control
Corticospinal and corticobulbar Key ideas: Voluntary, skilled movements Deliberate, controlled movements Of skeletal muscle Do such and such movements
Look at slide 18
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Paired spinal nerves
They occur at each vertebral interval
Emerging from the spinal cord, one on each side of the body
31 pairs of spinal nerves
Posterior Incoming sensory
Anterior Outgoing motor
Where anterior rootlets meet up with posterior rootlets you gave a spinal nerve that is mixed
Cervical pair
Eight
Thoracic pair
12
Lumbar pairs
5
Sacral pairs
5