Physiology I- Midterm 2 Flashcards

1
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The part of a neuron that receives an action potential

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Dendrite

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2
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The part of a neuron that transmits an action potential

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Axon

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3
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A side branch of an axon

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Collaterals

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Located between axon and cell body; neuron trigger zone

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Axon Hillock

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5
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The part of a neuron that releases chemical messengers; output zone

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Axon Terminals

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Mylin

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  • insulates axon (prevents loss of energy)
  • made of lipids and proteins
  • formed in CNS by oligodendrocytes and in PNS by Schwann Cells
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Contiguous Neurons

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  • unmyelinated fiber

- e.g. digestive neurons

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Saltatory Neurons

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  • myelin sheath with nodes of ranvier between
  • energy efficient
  • e.g. skeletal neurons (large), urinary neurons (small)
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9
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Multiple Sclerosis

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  • occurs in people who have an inability to form myelin
  • signs: fatigue, weakness
  • symptoms: vision loss, difficulty walking
  • could be caused by environment (cold weather), viruses (i.e. herpes), or a free radical
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10
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Synaptic Vesicles

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-store neurotransmitter

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Synaptic Cleft

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between pre and post-synaptic neurons

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12
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Excitatory Synapse

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creates excitation and action potential

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13
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EPSP

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Excitatory Post Synaptic Potential

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14
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Inhibitory Synapse

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  • K+ or Chloride cause hyperpolarization

- shuts down post-synaptic neuron to stop action potential from travelling

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15
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IPSP

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Inhibitory Post Synaptic Potential

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16
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5 Steps of Nervous Transmission

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  1. Action potential reaches terminal
  2. Voltage gated Ca2+ channels open allowing calcium to enter synaptic knob
  3. Neurotransmitter is released via exocytosis into synaptic cleft
  4. neurotransmitter binds to receptor site on PSN
  5. K+ and Na+ channels open in the subsynaptic membrane continuing action potential
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17
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Temporal Summation

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-two of the same excitatory potentials will add to form larger potential

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18
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GPSP

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Grand Post Synaptic Potential

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19
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Spatial Summation

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-two different excitatory potentials will add to form larger potential

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20
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How does cocaine effect synaptic transmission?

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-blocks re-uptake of dopamine at pre-synaptic terminals

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21
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How does tetanus toxin effect synaptic transmission?

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-prevents release of inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA affecting skeletal muscles

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22
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How does Parkinson’s effect synaptic transmission?

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-low dopamine levels

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23
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5 Types of Chemical Messengers

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  1. Autocrine
  2. Paracrine
  3. Hormones
  4. Neurocrines
  5. Cytokine
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24
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3 Types of Neurocrines

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  1. Neurotransmitters
  2. Neurohormone
  3. Neuromodulator/Neuropeptides
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25
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What makes Neuromodulators/Neuropeptides special?

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  • action occurs over hours, days and years

- used in memory and learning

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26
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What are cytokine chemical messengers used in?

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  • tissue development

- fever (inflammation)

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27
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Embryonic CNS Development: Week 3/Day 20

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-CNS begins to develop

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28
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Embryonic CNS Development: Week 3/ Day 23

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-CNS and PNS differentiate

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29
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Embryonic CNS Development: Week 4/ Day 28

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-forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain develop

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Embryonic CNS Development: Week 6/ Day 42

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  • forebrain differentiates between cerebrum and diencephalon

- hindbrain differentiates into medulla, pons, and cerebellum

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Embryonic Development: Week 11/ Day 77

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  • cerebrum growth is more rapid than other parts of brain

- looks more human

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32
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2 Components of CNS

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  1. Brain

2. Spinal Cord

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33
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3 Components of Brain

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  1. Forebrain
  2. Cerebellum
  3. Brains Stem
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34
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2 Components of Forebrain

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  1. Cerebrum

2. Diencephalon

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35
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3 Components of Cerebellum

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  1. Spinocerebellum
  2. Cerebrocerebellum
  3. Vestibulocerebellum
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36
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3 Components of Brain Stem

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  1. Medulla
  2. Pons
  3. Midbrain
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2 Components of Cerebrum

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  1. Cortex

2. Basal Nuclei

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38
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2 Components of Diencephalon

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  1. Thalamus

2. Hypothalamus

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39
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Afferent Neuron

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Receptors of Body –> Peripheral Axon –> Central Axon –> CNS

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40
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Interneuron

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  • found in CNS
  • 99% of all neurons
  • very complex
  • abstract phenomenon happen here (learning, motivation, emotions)
  • cell body and dendrites–> axon terminals
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41
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Efferent Neuron

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-cell body –> axon–> target

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42
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2 Locations of Efferent Neurons

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  1. Somatic

2. Autonomic

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43
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Glial Cells

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  • “unsung heroes of CNS and PNS”
  • neuroglia
  • glue
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44
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2 Types of Glial Cells in PNS

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  1. Satellite Cells

2. Schwann Cells

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45
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4 Types of Glial Cells in CNS

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  1. Oligodendrocytes
  2. Astrocytes
  3. Microglia
  4. Ependymal Cells
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46
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Satellite Cells

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  • form a capsule

- ganglia/ nuclei

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47
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Schwann Cells

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  • form myelin

- provides neurotrophic

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48
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Oligodendrocytes

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  • form myelin
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49
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Microglia

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  • small gluing cells
  • scavengers
  • stationary until activated
  • destroy foreign particles in brain
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50
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Astrocytes

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  • star shaped
  • form tight junctions
  • secrete paracrine signals leading to BBB
  • provide neurotrophic factors
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51
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Ependymal Cells

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  • epithelial cells lining cavities of brain
  • instrumental in secretion of CSF
  • neural stem cells producing new neurons
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52
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Glioma

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tumor in brain that is nearly untreatable

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53
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Overactive microglia can cause…

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  • worsening of MS
  • Dementia
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Stroke
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54
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3 Components of Meninges

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  1. Dera Matter
  2. Arachnoid Matter
  3. Pia Matter
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55
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Dera Matter

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  • closest to brain

- rich in venous system

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56
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Arachnoid Matter

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-contains sub-arachnoid spaces which fill with fluid that goes back into the venous system through arachnoid villi which draw out anything that needs to go back to the venous system

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Pia Matter

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  • thinnest layer

- contains arteries which provide nutrients and oxygen to brain

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58
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Meningitis

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  • bacterial infection affecting one or all of the three layers which can kill or paralyze
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59
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Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF)

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  • made by ependymal cells lining choroid plexus (3rd and 4th ventricle)
  • produces 3x per day
  • bathes neural tissue and fills subarachnoid space
  • high Na+ content (for nerve transmission)
  • provides physical support for brain through buoyancy
  • shock absorber
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60
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How often and how much CSF does the body produce in a day

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  • 3x per day

- 125-150mls

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Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)

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  • produced by astrocytes

- substances can cross only with transporters

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62
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Were is the BBB absent and why?

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  • vomiting centre (medulla longata) and hypothalamus

- allows imbalances and particles to be sensed and expelled/fixed

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63
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What is Parkinson’s caused by, what are the symptoms, and what is the treatment and why?

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  • caused by lack of dopamine
  • shuffling gait
  • L-dopa used as treatment because dopamine will not pass through the BBB
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64
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Cerebrum

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  • two hemispheres
  • split by corpus collosum
  • surface is highly convoluted
  • consists of white (one layer, myelinated) and grey matter (6 layers, unmyelinated)
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65
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4 Parts of Cerebrum

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  1. Occipital- vision
  2. Temporal- sound
  3. Parietal_ sensory stimuli
  4. Frontal- voluntary activity, elaboration of thought, spoken language
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Somatosensory Cortex

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  • directly behind central sulcus

- point where senses are relayed to

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67
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What areas of the body have the most somatosensory cortex allocated to them?

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  • tongue
  • lips
  • face
  • hand
  • genetilia
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Motor Cortex

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-point where motor signals are sent from

69
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What ares of the body have the most motor cortex area allocated to them?

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  • mouth
  • thumb
  • fingers
  • tongue
  • lips
70
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Cerebral Dominance: Right vs Left Brained

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  • right- non-verbal skills, dream imagery, artistry, philosophy, spatial skills, wholistic world view, creators, often left handed
  • left- language, math, logical, analytical, sequential analysis, detailed thinkers, generally right handed
71
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Wernike’s Area

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  • understanding language

- located between occipital, temporal, and parietal lobes

72
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Brocha’s Area

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  • located in front of central sulcus in frontal lobes

- forms words (speech)

73
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Stroke affecting Wernike’s Area

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  • can’t comprehend spoken language

- receptive aphasia

74
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Stroke affecting Broca’s Area

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  • comprehension intact
  • cannot form words
  • expressive aphasia
75
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3 Association Areas

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  1. Prefrontal Association Cortex
  2. Parietal-Temporal-Occipital Association Cortex
  3. Limbic Association Cortex
76
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Prefrontal Association Cortex

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  • personality traits
  • decision making
  • working memory
77
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Working Memory

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stores data and makes decisions based on it

78
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Parietal-Temporal-Occipital Association Cortex

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  • gives complete picture of your body

- see, hear, sense

79
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Limbic Association Cortex

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  • memory
  • emotion
  • motivation
80
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Basal Nuclei

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  • suppresses unwanted movements encourage useful motor activity especially posture and support
  • “refiner”
  • receives stimulus from thalamus “relay centre”
81
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Huntington’s Disease

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  • genetic
  • fatal
  • affects neurons
  • decline in motor activities
  • lose in nervous activity leading to dementia (early 20’s)
  • loss of cognition
82
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Hypothalamus

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  • brain area most involved in regulating internal environment
  • controls many homeostatic functions
  • around 1% of the brain and two glands
83
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Thalamus

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  • collection of nuclei
  • crude awareness of motor activity
  • relay station
  • site of sensory processing (minus olfactory)
  • sends refined sense to higher sensory cortex
84
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Pineal Gland

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  • located in thalamus

- secretes melatonin and affects circadian rhythm

85
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ADH

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  • anti-diuretic

- regulates blood pressure

86
Q

Hormones secreted by Anterior Pituitary

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  1. Gonads (progesterone, testosterone)
  2. Mammary
  3. Metabolism
87
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Hormones Secreted by Posterior Pituitary

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  1. Oxytocin (for birth and milk)

2. ADH

88
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Spinocerebellum

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  • muscle tone
  • skilled activity
  • middle management
89
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Cerebrocerebellum

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  • planning activity
  • procedural memories
  • repeated learning
  • motor memory
90
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Vestibulocerebellum

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  • eye
  • balance
  • inner ear
91
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Brain Stem

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  • primitive
  • reticular activating system
  • 12 pairs of nerves
  • life giving/sustaining functions: BP, sleep/arousal, cardiovascular center
92
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Medulla

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  • BP
  • breathing
  • vomiting
93
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Pons

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  • bridge between lower and upper brain
  • breathing
  • eye movements
  • auditory responses
94
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Midbrain

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  • most primitive

- does not change from week 3 of gestation onwards

95
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CNI

A

olfactory

96
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CNII

A

Optic Nerve

97
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CNX

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  • vagus nerve
  • thoracic region
  • heart and tongue
98
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Limbic System

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  • specialized region within forebrain

- emotions

99
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3 Components of Limbic System

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  1. Cingulate Gyrus
  2. Amygdala
  3. Hippocampus
100
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Cingulate Gyrus

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-some fear

101
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Amygdala

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  • almond shaped
  • controlling of fear
  • aggression
  • rage
  • sex drive
102
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Hippocampus

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  • neuronal stem cells
  • only site where new neurons are produces
  • learning and memory
  • here and now memory (what, who, where, people, places)
103
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Alzheimer’s

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  • caused by genetic mutation in hippocampus
  • loss of cholinergic neurons causing lack of Acetyl-choline
  • old age disease (65% of cases over age of 65)
104
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5 Types of Reflexes

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  1. Cranial
  2. Innate
  3. Acquired
  4. Monosynaptic
  5. Polysynaptic
105
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Cranial Reflex

A

-brain or spinal cord

106
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Innate Reflex (3 examples)

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  1. Babinski’s Reflex- stroke sole of child’s foot (toes curl-negative, or flex- positive)
  2. Sucking- in babies; disappears over time
  3. Landeau- 2-18 yrs
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Acquired Reflex

A

-e.g. toilet training

108
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Monosynaptic

A

-stretch

109
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Polysynaptic

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-withdrawal reflex

110
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Transduction

A

conversion of one energy form to another

111
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Perception

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nervous input + memory + knowledge

112
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Generators vs Receptors

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-generators directly receive stimulus while receptors receive stimulus and transmit it across a synaptic cleft via neurotransmitters to the afferent neuron

113
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Does pain stimulus require a receptor or generator?

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Receptor

114
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Ionic Adaptation

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  • fire until stimulus is removed

- e.g. proprioreceptors and baroceptors

115
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Phasic Adaptation

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  • rapid adaptation to stimulus
  • fire rapidly, resting potential, then hyperpolarization called of response
  • e.g. touch or tactile receptors
  • anything you sense but then get used to (olfactory)
116
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Large Field Acuity

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one point discrimination, sent off as one signal

117
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Small Field Acuity

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two point discrimination, sent off as two separate signals

118
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Lateral Inhibition

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  • capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors
  • disables the spreading of action potentials from excited neurons to neighboring neurons in the lateral direction.
119
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Free Nerve ending Corpuscles

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  • superficial

- myelinated or unmyelinated

120
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Meissner’s Corpuscles

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  • respond to fluttering and stroking movements

- light touch like air movement

121
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Ruffini Corpuscles

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  • deeper
  • respond to skin stretch and deformation
  • apply continuous pressure in order to feel them
122
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Merkel’s Corpuscles

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  • “touch dones”

- tissue displacement

123
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Pacinian

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  • vibration
  • transient touches
  • most well-known corpuscles
  • used in electrical machines in physio
124
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Fast Pain Receptors

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  • myelinated
  • small
  • A-Delta
  • 6-30 m/s
  • first part of any pain signalling
  • sharp stabbing pain
125
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Slow Pain Receptors

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  • dull aching pain
  • second part of pain
  • lasts much longer
  • unmyelinated fibers
  • C-fibers
  • 1-2 m/s
126
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A-Beta

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  • pain control

- inhibits pain

127
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Somatic Pain

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  • after intense exercise
  • do not need pain killers
  • should go away on its own within a few hours
128
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Referred Pain

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  • pain in the internal organs that is felt elsewhere

- e.g. heart pain felt in left arm/shoulder

129
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Pathological Pain

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  • long-term

- chronic

130
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Phantom pain

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  • felt in amputees missing limbs

- theory is that little neurons develop and fire at stump

131
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2 Neurotransmitters

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  1. Substance P

2. Glutamate

132
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Substance P

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  • named for pain?
  • secreted by first order neuron
  • stimulates second order neuron
  • e.g. asprin, morphine, endogenous piatis, endorphins, enkephalins, and dynorphins
133
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Glutamate

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  • has two receptors

- receptor a. opens calcium channels causing hypersensitivity

134
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Nociception

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pain reception

135
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Lens

A
  • transparent
  • separates two chambers of eye (posterior and anterior)
  • apoptosis
136
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Anterior Chamber

A
  • filled with aqueous humor

- drain by canal of schlemm

137
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Cause of Glaucoma

A
  • lack of draining via canal of schlemm in anterior chamber

- puts pressure on nerves and eventually destroys optic nerve

138
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Aqueous Humor

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plasma-like fluid

139
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Posterior Chamber

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-filled with vitreous humor

140
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Vitreous Humor

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  • gel-like
  • gives eye it’s shape
  • “glassy” looking
141
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Sclera

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  • transparent

- within posterior chamber

142
Q

Cornea

A

-transparent

143
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Choroid

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  • pink area just inside sclera

- within posterior layer

144
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Ciliary Body

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  • produces aqueous humor

- formed by choroid layer when it enters the anterior chamber

145
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Iris

A
  • pigment
  • even more accurate at identification than DNA
  • unique
  • very thin
146
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Pupil

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  • small opening
  • allows light to enter the eye
  • size of opening determines how much light can come in and out
147
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Retina

A

-photo receptors

148
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Optic Disc

A

-contains optic nerves

149
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Fovea

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  • layers of the retina spread aside
  • let light fall directly on the cones
  • give the sharpest image
150
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Macula

A

-region surrounding fovea

151
Q

Degeneration of Macula causes…

A
  • donut vision

- peripheral vision only

152
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CNII

A

optic nerv

153
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CNIII

A

ocular motor nerve

154
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CNVII

A

tear production (facial nerve)

155
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CNVI

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abducens- outward gaze

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Emmetropia

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  • no refractive error

- 20/20 vision

157
Q

In a healthy eye cilliary muscles are relaxed when _____ and contracted when _______.

A
  • the eye is looking at something far away (flat lens)

- the eye is looking at something close (round/taught)

158
Q

Myopia

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  • difficulty seeing far
  • most common
  • light falls in front of retina
  • corrected by concave lens
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Astigmatism

A

-unequal focus with your eyes

160
Q

Hyperopia

A
  • difficulty seeing near
  • less common
  • corrected by convex lens
  • light falls behind retina
161
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Presbyopia

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  • difficulty focusing up close
  • centre of lens starts to wear
  • becomes worse with age
  • corrected with bifocals
162
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Rods

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  • 100 million
  • black and white/greyscale
  • low acuity
  • night vision
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Cones

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  • 3 million
  • high acuity
  • day vision
  • red, green, and blue (high to low wavelength)
164
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Colour Blindness

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  • affects cones
  • more prevalent in males
  • linked to X chromosome
  • due to damage/lack of red/green cons (higher wavelength)
165
Q

Dark Photons

A

Rhodopsin Inactive–> CGMP increases–> Na+/K+–> Inhibitory neurotransmitter–> darkness

166
Q

Light Photons

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Rhodopsin Active–> activation of G Protein transduction–> Enzyme Phosphodiesterase –> CGMP deceases –> inhibitory neurotransmitters decrease –> bipolar graded potential –> ganglion cell action potential –> optic nerve action potential

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Light to Dark Adaptation

A

rods become less adapted

168
Q

Dark to Light Adaptation

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  • cones become dislodged

- momentarily blurry

169
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Roles of Ganglion Cells

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  • very complex
  • increases acuity
  • increased lateral inhibition
  • creates, borders, curves, and sharpens colours
  • increases sensation