Lecture 1 Flashcards
interoception
sense inner state of body
e.g. blood sugar levels
externoception
sense external environment e.g. smell
proprioception
sense configuration/movement of body
- receptors in joints and muscles
interoceptive signals
- biochemical
- mechanical
- thermal
key nerve in interoceptive signals
vagus nerve
sensory receptor
specialized excitable cell sensitive to a form of physical energy (modality)
electromagnetic energy/modality
photoreceptor
law of specific nerve energies / receptor specificity
receptors are usually sensitive to a particular type of modality/energy
adequate stimulus / receptor specificity
the modality to which a receptor responds best
neuronal signalling
- pre synaptic neuron
- AP
- neurotransmitter
- post synaptic neuron
- post synaptic potential
sensory transduction
conversion of physical energy to a receptor potential in the receptor neuron
transduction in skin mechanoreceptors
- receptor potentials are graded potentials
local anaesthetics
blocks sensory transduction of signal
sensory unit
- cell where transduction happens
and - cell where AP generated happens
- sometimes same cell sometimes 2 different cells
afferent neuron
- neuron in peripheral NS that conducts APs to CNS