Lecture 14: 9/30 - Pain Flashcards
Test 2
What pathway does fast pain go up?
Lateral spinothalamic tract
What pathway does slow pain go up?
Anterior spinothalamic tract
Where are the fast pain synapse?
Laminae I
What type of fibers do fast pain travel on?
Heavily mylinated A-Delta fibers
What is a pain neuron called?
Nociceptor
Free nerve ending
What are the neurotransmitters on for fast pain?
Glutamate
Where is fast pain sent to?
Parietal Lobe (post central gyrus)
What pathway slightly mimics the fast pain pathway?
DCML
Describe Glutamate in fast pain
Fast to release and bind to receptor
Fast to generate AP
If there is fast pain on your LE, what part of the parietal lobe is that sent to?
Midline/Top
If there is fast pain on your face, what part of the parietal lobe is that sent to?
Lateral
Why can you localize fast pain better than slow pain?
Fast pain mimic the DCML and terminates in the parietal lobe vs slow pain that does always reach that far. The parietal lobe controls your senses
What are the neurotrasmitters in slow pain?
What is the main one?
Glutamate
Substance P
Calcitonin Gene-related peptide (CGRP)
Substance P
Where are the synapse for slow pain?
Laminae II, III, and V
Describe Glutamate in slow pain vs fast
Glutamate acts slower in slow pain
What is a Neospinothalamic tract?
New pain pathway that has branched off of slow pain pathway. More sophitocated
What is a paleospinothalamic tract?
older tract that hasnt been developed much
T/F: Slow pain transmitters are slow to release and bind to receptor and generate an AP
T
Where does crossover happen in pain?
Anterior White Commisure (AWC)
T/F: Pain goes up the spinal cord on the same side the pain went into the spinal cord
F
Pain crosses over at the AWC before going up
Describe the pathway of fast pain
Dorsal root/rootlets -> Dorsal horn -> Laminae 1 (Laminae marginalis) -> Crossover at AWC -> Lateral spinothalamic tract -> ascends through the spinomesencephalic tract -> thalamus -> ventrobasal and intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus -> internal capsule -> Parietal lobe / cortex
Where are the somatosensory areas?
Parietal lobe
What areas do the DCML and fast pain have in common?
Ventrobasal complex in the thalamus and the internal capsule
Where do slow pain signals normally terminate?
Where is this?
Reticular formation
Tissue at the top of the brainstem
If slow pain does go pass the reticular formation, where does the signaling usually go?
Limbic system
Describe extrapyramidal tract: Olivospinal
Descending motor pathway
only needs to know it exists