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What does the frontal lobe do?

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Reward, attention, memory, planning, and motivation

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What does the parietal lobe do?

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Sense of touch, temperature, pain and language processing

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What does the temporal lobe do?

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Memory, hearing, language, comprehension, emotion

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What does the occipital lobe do?

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Visual processing

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Retinotopic map is for _____ input.

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visual

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Tonotopic map is for _____ input

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audio

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3 cortices with sensory modalities.

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Somatosensory, gustatory (taste), olfactory (smell)

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Brain stem contains… (3)

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Midbrain, pons and medulla

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Brainstem provides the main motor and sensory innervation to the face and neck via ________

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cranial nerves

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Of 12 pairs of cranial nerves, ___ pairs come from the brain stem.

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10

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What role does the brainstem play?

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Regulation of cardiac and respiratory function

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Where does spinal cord attach to?

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Brainstem

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Name the conduit of information (brain-body)

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Skin, joints, muscles. spinal nerves: dorsal root, ventral root

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What is peripheral nervous system (PNS)?

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Nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord

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What does somatic PNS innervate?

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Skin, joints, muscles

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What is dorsal root ganglia?

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Clusters of neuronal cell bodies outside the spinal cord that contain somatic sensory axons

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What does visceral PNS do?

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Innervates internal organs and their functions such as blood circulation, hormone release, heart rate, digestion and urination, sexual arousal

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What is phrenology based on?

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The concept of brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized specific modules

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Franz Joseph Gall’s assumption in 1796, that _________, _________, and _______ are located in a specific parts of the brain is considered an important historical advance toward neuropsy.

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Character, thought, emotions

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Brain map is continuously modified by ______

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experience

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What happens to a violinist’ brain map?

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Auditory cortex will have larger sensitivity to violin. Somatosensory cortex will enlarge cortical map to left-hand fingers

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What is perception?

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Continuous interpretation of the world based on sensory systems, memory, and other neural processes

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Information is sent from the periphery to ____

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CNS

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External environment _______ ; internal environment ________

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sensory; visceral afferent

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What does somatosensory system sense?
Pressure and temperature
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What is somatic?
sensations of skin
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What is proprioception?
perception of limb and body
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What is the modality of balance and equilibrium?
Acceleration
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What is the modality of taste and smell?
Chemicals
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What do sensory receptors do?
Detect specific form of energy in the external environment
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Photoreceptors are for? and its modality.
Vision; photons of light
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Chemoreceptors are for? and its modality.
Taste, smell, pain; chemicals dissolved in saliva, chemical dissolved in mucus, chemicals in extracellular fluid
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Thermoreceptors are for? and its modality.
Warmth and cold; increase T between 30-43, decrease in T between 35-20
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Mechanoreceptors are for? and its modality.
Vibration, sound, balance and equilibrium; pressure, sound waves, acceleration
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Name 2 mechanoreceptors.
Pacinian corpuscle, hair cells
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What is sensory transduction?
Conversion of stimulus energy into electrical energy
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Receptor/ graded potentials are triggered by _____.
sensory stimuli
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If the receptor potential __________, it can generate an action potential.
exceeds threshold
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__________ in spinal cord. (somatosensory)
Dorsal root ganglion
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_________ in nasal cavity. (smelling)
Olfactory receptor cells
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__________ in cochlear. (hearing)
Hair cells
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_______ in retina. (vision)
Rod/cone cells
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_________ in taste bud. (taste)
Taste receptor cell
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What is sensory pathways?
Specific neural pathways transmitting information of a specific modality
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Sensory unit: all receptors are of _______ type within a _______
similar; modality
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Sensory unit: __________ may result from activation of receptors
Action potential
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What is receptive field?
Area in which a sensory unit is activated
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What is the coding for stimulus intensity?
Frequency of action potentials; number of receptors or units activated (population coding)
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Stronger stimulus activates more _____ or more _______
receptors; sensory units
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Name the generalized pathway for sensory systems.
Stimulus -> receptors -> afferent neuron -> spinal cord/ brainstem -> second-order neuron -> thalamus -> third-order neuron -> cortex
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Somatosensory receptors: What does proprioceptors do?
Position of the limb in space (joint angle, muscle length, muscle tension)
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Somatosensory receptors: What does mechanoreceptors do?
Sensation of mechanical pressure/ distortion
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Somatosensory receptors: What does thermoreceptors do?
Sensation of relative changes in temperature in Ruffini's ending
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Somatosensory receptors: What does nociceptors do?
Pain sensation by damaging stimuli in free nerve ending
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Name the dorsal column-medial lemniscal pathway
Proprioceptors/ mechanoreceptors -> medulla oblongata -> thalamus -> primary somatosensory cortex
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What are the somesthetic sensation?
Touch & pressure, proprioception
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Name the spinal cord-thalamus pathway
Nociceptors/ thermoreceptors -> spinal cord -> thalamus -> primary somatosensory cortex
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What does the spinothalamic tract sense?
Temperature and tissue-damaging stimuli
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Which pathway skipped medulla?
Spino cord-thalamus pathway
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Pain sensation is produced by _________
tissue-damaging stimulus
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Pain elicits ________ and ________ response.
autonomic; emotional
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Pain perception in spinothalamic tract.
Somatic PNS, visceral PNS -> thalamus
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What is two-point discrimination?
A sensory acuity that is an ability to perceive 2 points on the skin
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Two-point discrimination is used to determine _____
tactile agnosia
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What is two-point threshold?
The smallest distance between two points that still results in the perception of two distinct stimuli is recorded as the two-point threshold
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What is tactile acuity?
The keenness or sharpness of the sense of touch, usually measured by the two-point threshold
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Which place has the highest acuity?
Lips
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Which place has the least acuity?
Calf
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What is a taste bud?
A cluster of taste cells (receptor cells)
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Microvilli at the _____ of the taste cells extend into the ______
apical end; taste pore
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How many taste buds?
More than 10,000 taste buds
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Taste pore exposed to ____ in mouth.
saliva
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How many taste receptors cells per taste bud?
50-150
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Taste receptors respond to ______, that give food its flavor.
tastants
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Taste sour due to...
H+
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Taste salty due to...
Na+
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Taste sweet due to...
ligands (sugar)
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Taste bitter due to...
ligands (quinine)
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Do each taste receptor cell only respond to one taste?
No, each responds to all four primary tastes. Receptor cells generally respond to one taste more strongly than the others
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One taste bud one receptor cell?
Different types of receptor cells located within a taste bud
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Sensory neurons = cranial nerves...
VII, IX and X
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Neural pathway for taste terminate in _______
brainstem gustatory nucleus -> thalamus -> gustatory cortex in parietal lobe
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Olfaction depends on chemicals in ____ that bind to ________ in the ________.
air; chemoreceptors; olfactory epithelium
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Where does olfactory epithelium locate?
In nasal cavity
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What are the 3 cell types that make olfactory epithelium?
Receptor cells; basal cells; sustentacular cell
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Describe the receptor cells for smell.
Neurons that respond to odorants
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What is basal cells?
Precursor cells for new receptor cells
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What does sustentacular cell do?
Maintain extracellular environment
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Name the order in olfactory epithelium.
Mucus layer -> cilia of receptor cell -> receptor cell -> sustentacular cell -> basal cell -> lamina propria -> cribriform plate -> axon of olfactory nerve
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The neurons (basal neurons) that are _______ continuously.
replaced
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Chemoreceptors will be used when cilia project into _____.
mucus
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Where do olfactory binding proteins locate?
Mucus
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What do olfactory binding proteins do?
Transport odorants to receptors
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_______ comprises cranial nerve I, the _______ nerve.
Axons of receptor cells; olfactory
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Neural pathway for olfaction: Communication between _______ and _______ in glomeruli.
Mitral cells; olfactory neuron
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Neural pathway for olfaction: Relay in _______ to _______ cortex
olfactory tubercle; cerebral
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The neocortex is reached only by a pathway that synapses in the ______ of the _____
medial dorsal nucleus; thalamus

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