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Lecture 11: Sensory Physiology Flashcards

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What 2 things can be used to classify a peripheral nerve?

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Contribution to an action potential. (Letter)

Fiber diameter, myelin thickness. (Number)

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Aalpha nerve
Classification:
Fiber diameter:
Conduction velocity:

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Classification: Ia, Ib
Fiber diameter: large
Conduction velocity: fast

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C nerve
Classification:
Fiber diameter:
Conduction velocity:

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Classification: IV
Fiber diameter: small
Conduction velocity: slow

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What is a generator potential?

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A stimulus, when large enough, can trigger an AP to be carried over a distance into the CNS.

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Receptor adaptation

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When a stimulus persists for awhile, the neural response diminishes and sensation is lost.

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Slowly adapting receptors

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Receptors that respond to prolonged and constant stimulation

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Rapidly adapting receptors

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Receptors that respond only at beginning or end of stimulus when the intensity of stimulus increases or decreases.

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Meissner’s corpuscle
Adaptation rate:
Sensation produced:
Receptive field size:

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Receptor Adaptation rate: RA
Sensation produced: tap, flutter
Receptive field size: small

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Hair follicle receptors
Adaptation rate:
Sensation produced:
Receptive field size:

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Receptor Adaptation rate: RA or SA
Sensation produced: motion, direction
Receptive field size: N/A

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Pacinian corpuscle
Adaptation rate:
Sensation produced:
Receptive field size:

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Receptor Adaptation rate: RA
Sensation produced: vibration
Receptive field size: large

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Merkel disk
Receptor Adaptation rate:
Sensation produced:
Receptive field size:

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Receptor Adaptation rate: SA
Sensation produced: touch, pressure
Receptive field size: small

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Ruffini corpuscle
Receptor Adaptation rate:
Sensation produced:
Receptive field size:

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Receptor Adaptation rate: SA
Sensation produced: skin stretch
Receptive field size: large

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Where is tactile acuity highest?

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Small receptor fields (fingertips, lips, etc).

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Where is tactile acuity lowest?

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Large receptor fields (calf, thigh, back, etc)

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Pre-synaptic inhibition

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Diminishes excitatory signal.

  1. GABA –> influx of Cl-.
  2. Hyperpolarization
  3. Less Ca++
  4. Less NT release
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What is the use for pre-synaptic inhibition? How?

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It helps the brain localize the signal.

The activated neuron can send collateral branches to inhibit nearby neurons, which would enlarge the sensory area.

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3 roles of cortical processing

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Initial processing of signal.
Integration of the initial processing into larger schemes.
Emotional response to the processing.

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What is interesting about the somatotopic maps?

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They can be changed (i.e. magnified (OMM) or diminished (amputation, severed nerve)).

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What layers of the cortex are enlarged in the primary sensory cortex?

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III and IV

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What layers of the cortex are the main site of termination of axons from the thalamus?

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III and IV

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Each column within the cortex deals with what?

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One sensory modality in one part of the body (Meissner’s of arm, free nerve endings leg, etc).

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How does sensory info arrive at its column in layer IV?

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Via the thalamus

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What is S1 involved in?

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Integration of the info for position sense, and size and shape discrimination.

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What is S2 involved in?

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Comparisons between objects, sensations, etc. and whether or not something becomes a memory.

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PTO
High level interpretation of sensory inputs from many areas. | Analyzes spatial coordinates of self in environment. Names objects.
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Once it receives sensory, what does the primary sensory cortex send projections to?
Mostly back to thalamus, but also to other parts of cortex.
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What do the thalamic projections from the primary sensory cortex do?
Permits focusing activities
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What is the function of cortico-cortical projections?
It allows for linking of primary and association areas of sensory cortex. Allows for simultaneous processing multiple sensations.
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What is the corticofugal signal?
Transmits back from cortex to thalamus, medulla or SC. | Typically inhibitory and suppresses sensory input.
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Pain vs nociception
Pain: both the sensory and emotional unpleasantness from a harm. Nociception: Neural process of encoding noxious stimuli.
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Fast pain is done by:
A-delta fibers
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Slow pain is done by:
C-fibers
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3 types of pain
Thermal Mechanical Chemical
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Silent nociception
Nociceptors that are not generally activated
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Phenotype switching
Induction of nociceptive receptors where they otherwise are not.
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Free nerve endings have which kind of fibers? (2)
C fibers | A-delta fibers
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Peptidergic free nerve endings Peptides expressed: Responsive to: What kind of pain?
Peptides expressed: SP, CGRP. Responsive to: NGF (nerve growth factor) What kind of pain? Chronic inflammation and visceral pain.
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Non-peptidergic free nerve endings Peptides expressed: Responsive to: What kind of pain?
Peptides expressed: no neuropeptides Responsive to: GDNF What kind of pain? Diabetic neuropathy
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TRP receptors are permeable to? (3)
Ca++ Na+ K+
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TRPV1
Capsaicin, and heat
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TRPA1
Menthol
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TRPM8
Allyl isothiocyanate and coldness.
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Other receptors sensing pain (3)
Na 1.7 channel: Mechanosensitive sodium channel. P2X: ATP activated. ASIC: activated by H+.
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Gate theory of pain
Rubbing the spot that hurts. No pain is sensed because the inhibitory interneuron is blocking the nociceptive signal (activates the A-beta fiber which activates an interneuron which is inhibitory).
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Descending inhibition
NE and serotonin activates inhibitory interneurons which release opiods on presynaptic C-fibers which leads to reduced nociception/ALS.
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What mediates chronic pain, or subthreshold pain?
Bradykinin
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Role of insular cortex
Interpretation of pain. | Integrates all signals referred to pain.
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Asymbolia
No emotional attachment to pain
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Where does visceral input travel?
With ANS to hypothalamus and medulla.
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``` Types of pain associated with: Skin: Joints: Muscle: Viscera: ```
Skin: thermal and chemical Joints: mechanical and chemical Muscle: mechanical and chemical Viscera: mechanical and chemical
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How does referred pain occur?
Many afferents converge in the dorsal horn. If they synapse on the same 2nd neurons, then the pain is perceived in many places.

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