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Movement Flashcards

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What are involuntary movements?

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Automatic
e.g. flexion
Withdrawal reflex

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What are voluntary movements?

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Conscious control
e.g. visually guided
reaching movement

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What does skilled movement involve?

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Motor learning and memory

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What is declarative memory?

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Factual information
Life events
Available to consciousness
Easily formed/forgotten

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What is non-declarative memory?

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E.g. Procedural memory
Motor skills
Not available to consciousness
Less easily formed/forgotten

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What are the ballistic movements?

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Pre-programmed

Movements largely based on a set of pre-programmed instructions called ballistic movements

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How fast and accurate are ballistic movements?

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Rapid but at expense of accuracy- little opportunity for compensation for unexpected changes e.g. striking a cricket ball, returning a tennis serve

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What is the pursuit of visual feedback movements?

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Motor command continually updated according to sensory feedback (e.g. visual)

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How fast and accurate is the pursuit of visual feedback movements?

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Highly accurate (can be modified while in progress) but slow e.g. visual tracking

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What does the pursuit of visual feedback movements involve?

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Mixture of both feedback and ballistic strategies

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Where can evidence for the SMA (supplementary motor area) be found?

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Activity in the SMA, M1, S1 during finger movement task

Only when the movement is mentally rehearsed

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What is sensory information crucial for?

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Co-ordinated movement

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What is proprioception?

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Feedback from peripheral sensory receptors on the positions and movements of limbs- somatic sensory cortex

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What is vision?

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eyes, visual system and visual cortex

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What the vestibular system?

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Feedback from organs of balance subcortical

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What is the prefrontal cortex?

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Decision to make movement

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What is the supplementary motor are and premotor area?

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Planning of movements (imaging studies and movement rehearsal)

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What is the primary motor cortex?

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Distorted motor map

Main source of ouput signals producing muscle contraction

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What is the sensory cortex?

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Somatic sensory and visual cortex feedback information on the positions of limbs in relation to environment

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What is decussation of pathways?

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Pathways providing connections between primary sensory and motor areas and the periphery are crossed

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What do the functions lost in a stroke depend on?

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Dependent on the extent of the haemorrhage

22
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What is a stroke?

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Paralysiss and loss of sensation will be contralateral to the side of the haemorrhage

23
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What are the basal ganglia and cerebellum?

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Main non-cortical brain structures involved in the control of movement

24
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Where does input usually go for the basal ganglia?

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Prefrontal cortex- intended movement

25
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Where does output usually go for the basal ganglia?

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Pre-motor area (via thalamus)

26
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What is the function of the basal ganglia?

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Initiation of movement- putting motor plan into action

Planning of complex voluntary movement

27
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What is Parkinson’s disease?

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Difficulty in initiating movement (tremor)

28
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What is Huntington’s disease?

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Random involuntary movements

29
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What are the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease?

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Tremors, hypokinesia, progressing to general cognitive decline

30
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What is the pathology in the basal ganglia of Parkinson’s disease?

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Loss of dopaminergic neurones

31
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What are treatments of Parkinson’s disease?

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DOPA

Deep brain stimulation

32
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What is DOPA?

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Precursor to dopamine

33
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What are the symptoms of Huntington’s disease?

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Choreas
Difficulty speaking and swallowing
Progressing to general cognitive decline

34
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What part of the brain does Huntington’s disease affect?

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Basal ganglia

Inherited- triplet repeat disease

35
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Where does the input of the cerebellum go?

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Mainly sensory cortex

36
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Where does the ouput of the cerebellum go?

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To primary cortex (via thalamus)

37
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What is the function of the cerebellum?

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Co-ordination and smooth execution of movements

Motor learning, detection

38
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What does damage to the cerebellum produce?

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Cerebellular ataxia- poor co-ordination

39
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What are the lateral pathways?

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Corticospinal and rubrospinal

40
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Where do the pyramidal neurones in M1 project in lateral pathways?

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To the spinal cord (corticospinal tract) and red nucleus (rubrospinal tract)

41
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What is the main function of lateral pathways?

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Control of voluntary movement e.g. distal muscles- fine control of hand

42
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What are ventromedial pathways?

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Control of axial (trunk)- control of posture

Descending systems synapse on motoneurones or on interneurones in the spinal cord

43
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What is the main function of ventromedial pathways?

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Mainly control proximal and axial (trunk) muscles and maintain posture

44
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What are skeletal muscle fibres innervated by?

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Alpha motoneurones

45
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What do motoneurones provide?

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Final common output

46
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What does each motor axon branch to do?

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Innervate from 3 (e.g. ocular) to 1000 (e.g. gastrocnemius)

47
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What is a motor unit?

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Motoneurone and the muscle fibres it innervate form a functional unit called a motor unit

48
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What do motoneurones pools of each muscle form?

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Columns in the ventral horn

49
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What are collections of motoneurones in the ventral horn called?

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Motonuclei

50
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What in practice is the most important mechanism for grading force muscle force?

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Recruitment of motor units

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