Lecture 19: Voluntary Motion Flashcards

1
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What cortical areas are associated with voluntary motion?

A
  • Primary Motor Cortex
  • Supplementary Motor Cortex
  • Pre-Motor Cortex
  • Parts of Pre-frontal Cortex
  • Parietal cortex

Redundant Roles

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What does the premotor cortex do?

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  • Receives sensory information required to move
  • Determines the appropriate motion and intent of the motion (dorsal part)

Identifies goal and motion required to meet goal

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What does the supplementary motor area of the supplementary motor cortex do?

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Postural control

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What is the pre-supplementary area of the supplementary motor cortex involved in?

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Plans motor program required to make the action occur

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What does the supplementary motor cortex?

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  • Postural Control
  • Organize motor sequences
  • Acquire specific motor skills (with cerebellum)
  • Executive control (decision to switch actions/strategies)
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What does the primary motor cortex do?

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  • Controls specific movements of the body to reach goal
    • Fine motions have high representation
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What does layer 4 of the primary cortex do?

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Receives sensory input from muscles and joint proprioceptors

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What does layer 5 of the primary motor cortex do?

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  • Output for corticopsinal tracts: axons will travel down spinal cord (UMN)
  • If axons synpase with alpha motor neuorns, they are known as pre-motor neurons
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9
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What sets of neurons are found in each column of the primary motor cortex?

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  1. Start motion
  2. Maintain motion as long as necessary
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10
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How are columns organized in the primary motor cortex?

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Neighboring columns have similar motions

  • Also agonist/antagonist columns are nearby each other
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11
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What is the visual pathway required for both reaching and grasping?

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Dorsal visual pathway

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How does the brain receive visual information required for reaching?

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Visual information is relayed to specific areas of the parietal cortex:

  • V6A
  • PEc
  • MIP
  • VIP
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What does the ventral intraparietal (VIP) area do?

What action is it involved in?

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Creates a rough map of space around you and desired object

Reaching

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Where does the VIP area send its information to?

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F4 areas within in pre-motor cortex

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What does F4 do?

How does it do it?

How does the F4 region create a detailed map of the space around you?

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Create a detail map about the space around self.

Neurons in F4 are excited by proximity: more activity the closer the desired object is

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16
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Where does the super parietal cortex send information to?

What information is it sending?

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F2 area of the pre-motor cotex

Visual information about where your arm is in space

17
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What does the F2 area do?

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Creates a map about the location of arm in relationship with body and objects around self

18
Q

What actions are the anterior intraparietal area and PFG of the parietal cortex responsive to?

A

Seeing an object and grasping it

19
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Where does PFG/Anterior intraparietal area relay their information to?

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F5 of the pre-motor cortex

20
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What does the F5 area do?

A

Respond to goal of the action

(Intended goal: to drink the tea, how it is held is not important)

21
Q

What are the functions of the spinocerebellum?

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  • Vermis: Postural Control
  • Paravermis: Force and direction
    • Correct ongoing motions and control ballistic motions
22
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What are the functions of the cerebrocerebellum?

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Plan complex motions and sequencing them

23
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What are the functions of the vestibulocerebellum?

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Balance/eye movements

24
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What structures transmit the output from the cerebellum?

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Deep Cerebellar Nuclei

  • Dentate
  • Emboliform
  • Globose
  • Fastigial
25
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What are the inputs and outputs to the vermis of the spinocerebellum?

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  • Input: Efferent copy (what berrain sends to muscle), vestibular, auditory input
  • Output: Interpositus and Fastigial Nuclei to rubrospinal tract
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What are the inputs and outputs to the paravermis of the spinocerebellum?

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  • Input: Efferent copy (what berrain sends to muscle) and muscle afferent
  • Output: Interpositus Nuclei to rubrospinal tract
27
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What are the inputs and outputs of the cerebrocerebellum?

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  • Input: Cerebral cortex relating to motion
  • Output: Dentate nucleus back to cortex
28
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What are the inputs and outputs of the vestibuloocerebellum?

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  • Input: Vestibular Apparatus
  • Output: Fastigial nucleus to vestibular nuclei
29
Q

To produce motion, we must ____ the direct pathway and ____ the indirect pathway

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Activate

Inactivate

30
Q

To make motion occur, what is the brain’s action on muscle spindles in the antagonist muscle?

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Inhibits alpha-motor neurons and gamma-motor neurons