Lecture 1 Test 3 Flashcards
What part of the spinal cord transmits sensory pathway in ascending (afferent)?
(Blue part) mostly dorsal and some lateral
What part of the brain does the information being sent through the spinal cord go to?
Brain stem, cerebellum and brain
What part of the spinal cord transmit in descending (efferent) motor pathways?
lateral corticospinal
What has a larger area in the spinal cord between sensory and motor pathways?
Sensory pathways
Name different types of sensors the body has?
Pressure sensors in the skin, temperature, vibration, and pain sensors
Which pathway takes up more real estate in the cord?
Ascending (sensory) pathway
What does the gray matter mainly do?
Decision making through synapses
What’s in the gray matter?
Cell bodies of motor neurons and parts for communication (synapses/decision making)
Bundle of axons outside of the CNS
Nerves
Bundle of axons within the CNS
Tract
What are the 2 main groups of descending pathways?
Pyramidal tract; extra pyramidal tract
Which descending tract does the primary (voluntary) motor function that we think about go through?
(Arm movement, leg movement)
Pyramidal tract
accessory motor pathways (complex tasks)
no realization of these things functioning but fine tune motor commands.
help control or give feedback on instructions
Extrapyramidal tract (outside of pyramidal tract)
If the pressure sensor needs to make it up (ascend) to the brain, which pathway does it go?
Dorsal column
The higher you go up in the cord, the ____ the dorsal columns are gonna be.
Larger
Where does the ascending crossover of the left side of the brain to the right side of the brain occur?
At the DCML lemniscus decussation located at the lower part of the medulla
What is the medial lemniscus?
This is a structure that the information travels through to get to the brain stem after the crossover process.
Where does the DCML information get routed through after the thalamus?
Ventrobasal Complex
What’s in charge of running the sensory information up towards the parietal lobe of the brain.
Ventrobasal Complex
Meaning of corticospinal
Signal originated from the motor cortex
Where does 80% of our motor function occur in the spinal cord?
Primary pyramidal tract
located in our skin
figure out if we’re holding on to something
we have our hands up in the air.
o pressure sensors (touch perception)
o Aka spinothalamic tracts, or spinothalamic pathways
o Anterolateral column pathway
Where are pain signals relayed?
spine and up the thalamus (spinothalamic tract) and then the parietal lobe
A system of 10 layers of gray matter within the spinal cord and their functions. Numbered from back to front
Rexed’s Laminae
Aka “Lamina marginalis”
First tip of dorsal horn
Lamina I
What type of pain fibers does Lamina I use?
Fast pain myelinated nociceptors (A(d) -Fibers)
Fast pain pathway
Neospinothalamic pathway
aka Substantia gelatinosa
Lamina II & III
What type of pain fibers does Lamina II & III use?
Slow pain; nociceptors that are non-myelinated C fibers
Sometimes Lamina II & III has a synaptic connection with
Lamina V
Activated by the descending motor pathways; motor neurons are located here
Anterior horn