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1
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Motor control

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Cortex
Basal nuclei
Cerebellum

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2
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Dorsal root

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Sensory

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3
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Ventral root

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Motor

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4
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Antagonistic muscle

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Extensor vs. flexor

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5
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Motor unit

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Single alpha motor neuron and all muscle fibers it ennervates

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Motor pool

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Group of alpha motor that innervate muslce

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Muscle spindle

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Stretch detectors
Innervated by 1a afferent sensory neurons

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8
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Extrafusal fibers

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Generate force and movement
Innervated by alpha motor neuron

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9
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Intrafusal fibers

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Respond to muscle movement
Innervated by gamma motor neurons

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10
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Golgi tendon

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Monitor tension to prevent muscle
Innervated by type 1b afferent

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11
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Divergence

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I signal to multiple areas
ex. leg withdrawal

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Convergence

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Multiples neurons meet
Involved interneurons

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Reverberating circuit

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Maintain input through excitatory, positive feedback
ex. working memory

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14
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Rhythmic circuit

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Switch between activating and inhibiting
ex. Walking, stance vs. swing

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15
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Primary primary cortex

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Somatopically organized
Project to spine
Cross over laterally
Control small groups of muscle

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16
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Supplementary motor cortex

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Programming and coordinating
Planning and executing
ex. rehearsing

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17
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Premotor cortex

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Set related neurons fire before and until action completed
Planning and execution

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18
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Posterior parietal cortex

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Integrates visual info for movement i.e. depth perception

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19
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Cerebellum

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Initiation, coordination and modulation based on sensory input
Made up of parking cells with dense dendrites

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20
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Climbing fibers

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Strong pathways in cerebellum

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21
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Parallel fibers

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Weaker pathways in cerebellum

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22
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Basal nucleus

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Planning and execution

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23
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D1 neurons

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Promote action

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24
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D2 neurons

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Indirect, inhibit action

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25
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Basal nuclei VS Cerebellum

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Basal nuclei is higher order aspect of movement
Cerebellum is execution of movement

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26
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Parkinson’s Disease

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Symptoms: reduced and slowed movement, 3 Hz tremor
Cause: loss of dopaminergic neurons in substantial nigra
Treatment: L-Dopa, DBS

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27
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MPTP

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Kills dopamine neurons - Parkinson’s like symptoms

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28
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Huntington’s disease

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Symptoms: involuntary movements, cognitive impairment, mood disorders
Cause: CAG repeats, polyglutamine disease, autosomal dominant
Treatment: gene therapy, stem cells

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29
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Tardive dyskinesia

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Symptoms: involuntary movement, cognitive impairment, mood disorders
Cause: long term use of antipsychotics leads to dopamine hypersensitivity
Treatment: discontinue antipsychotics

30
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Somatic VS. Autonomic

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Somatic: voluntary, peripheral, monosynaptic
Autonomic: involuntary, central, disynaptic, direct inhibition

31
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Sympathetic VS Parasympathetic

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Sympathetic = fight or flight, more organ innervation, ACh then NE
Parasympathetic = rest and digest, less organ innervation, ACh then ACh

32
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Dually innervated

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Adrenal gland
Cortex = endocrine glan
Medulla = chromatffin, excitable neuroendocrine

33
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Enteric nervous system

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Myenteric plexus - outer, gut motility
Submucosal - inner, gut secretions

34
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Heart experiment

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Heart submerged in ACh bath without electricity still functioned - chemical signals, discovery of ACh

35
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Hormone pathway

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Hypothalamus release hypophysiotropic hormone to pituitary
Pituitary release anterior pituitary hormone to gland
Gland release third hormone to target

36
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Anterior pituitary

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Gland
Growth, metabolism, reproduction

37
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Posterior pituitary

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Neural tissue
Water balance, birth + lactation

38
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Pineal gland

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Secretes melatonin, internal clock

39
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Explicit/declarative memory

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Semantic - facts
Episodic - autobiographical

40
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Implicit/Non-declarative memory

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Skills
Conditioning

41
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Ranges of memory

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STM (5-7 units)
ITM
LTM
vLTM

42
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Anterograde amnesia

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Cannot form new memories

43
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Retrograde amnesia

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Can’t remember past

44
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Hippocampus

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Trisynaptic pathway with pyramidal neurons

45
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Perforant pathway

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Entorhinal cortex to granule cells in dentate gyrus

46
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Mossy fiber

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Granule cells to CA3

47
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Schaffer collaterals

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CA3 to CA1

48
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HM

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Removal of bilateral hippocampus led to anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia
Able to learn

49
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EP

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Encephalitis damaged medial temporal lobe
Anterograde amnesia
Semantic and episodic memories from earlier in life in tact

50
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Morris Water Maze

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animals learn to find platform, even without platform
can’t learn with hippocampal lesions

51
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Age & LTM

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Age disrupts LTM

52
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Pavlovian conditioning

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Contextual - learn to fear environment
Cued - learn to fear sound

New environment - no fear until sound cue

Hippocampal lesion, slow to learn but able to learn fear over time

53
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Long term potentiation

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Encoding of memories

54
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Hebb’s postulate

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Cells that fire together, wire together

55
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Synaptic strength increases

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Rapidly induced, cooperatively, associativity

56
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Cooperativity

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Must reach threshold

57
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Associativity

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Activation of strong pathway can boost weak pathway

58
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Tetanus

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High frequency stimulation which can strengthen EPSP

59
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AMPA receptors

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Faster, depolarized by influx of Na+

60
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NMDA receptors

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Slower, depends on AMPA, blocked by Mg2+

61
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Removal of Mg2+ block

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Na+ influx causes depolarization, repulsion of positive charges removes Mg2+

62
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Elevation of Ca2+

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Necessary for LTP

63
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Ca2+ and Calmodulin

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CAMKII depends on Ca2+ and calmodulin, open active site, persistently open

64
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CAMKII

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Activates AMPA receptors through phosphorylation
Recruits AMPA receptors

65
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Memory consolidation

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Encoded over time with lability which decreases over time

66
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Labile stage

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Memory is sensitive to post-experience at first but overtimes, less disruptablee

67
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Range of LTP

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E-LTP to L-LTP, depends on amount of high frequency

68
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LTM

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Requires new proteins

69
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CREB

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Promotes new proteins

70
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Autism

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Lack of specific proteins

71
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Fragile X

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Excess methylation, spindly neurons

72
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mGluR

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Target for synaptic plasticity
Plays roles in LTD

Physiology 502 (4 decks)

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