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Sensation Flashcards

1
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What does somatosensory mean?

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From the body

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What are the types of peripheral somatosensory receptors?

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  • Muscle spindles (stretch, rate of movement)
  • Golgi tendon organs (tension)
  • Joint receptors (stretch, rate of movement)
  • Cutaneous receptors
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What are the 3 types of cutaneous receptors?

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  • Thermal (temp)
  • Nociception (pain)
  • Mechanoreceptors (light/firm touch, vibration)
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What are the types of mechanoreceptors?

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  • Pacinian corpuscles
  • Merkel’s disks
  • Meissner’s corpuscles
  • Ruffini endings
  • Lanceolate endings
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What is the difference between myotome and dermatome?

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Myotome: Muscles innervated by one nerve root
Dermatome: Area of skin innervated by one nerve root

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What does postural control require?

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  • Sensory info coming in
  • Processing of info at an automatic/cognitive level
  • Activating muscles an appropriate amount for the environment/task
  • Ability to rapidly modify the response
  • Learning & memory
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What is the thalamus and where is it located?

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Major processing centre of the brain, in the diencephalon

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What somatosensory information is relayed to the somatosensory cortex via the thalamus?

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Conscious sensation of touch, pressure, pain, temperature, vibration and proprioception

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What somatosensory information is relayed to the cerebellum via the brainstem?

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Unconscious sensation, e.g. position, movement

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How does the visual system work?

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  • Photoreceptors respond to light
  • Sensory info transmitted via optic nerve
  • Medial optic nerve fibres cross at optic chasm
  • Lateral optic nerve fibres remain on same side, forming optic tract
  • Optic tract carries info to lateral geniculate nucleus in thalamus
  • Info transmitted to primary visual cortex in occipital region
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What are the afferent and efferent functions of the visual system?

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Afferent: Provide sight & info about posture & body movement
Efferent: Eye movements

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How can you test the afferent and efferent function of the visual system?

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Afferent: Test pupillary reflexes, Snellan chart, visual fields
Efferent: Test eye movements

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What does the vestibular system monitor?

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Monitors changes in head position, movement and direction of gravity

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Where are the vestibular system receptors located?

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Within the inner ear

  • Utricle
  • Saccule (vertical/linear displacement, gravity)
  • Semicircular canals (direction, acceleration)
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How is sensory info from the vestibular system transmitted?

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By vestibular nerve to vestibular nuclei within brain stem and cerebellum

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What is the function of the vestibular system?

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  • Stimulates reflexes for equilibrium and gaze stabilisation
  • Coordinates balance
  • Contributes to positioning of head, postural adjustments, autonomic function & consciousness
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How can the vestibular system be tested?

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  • Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (clicking sound while holding head up)
  • Neck muscle activity
  • Caloric test (response to water in ears)
  • Eye movements
  • Rotations tests
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What are muscles spindles composed of?

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Intrafusal muscle fibres (3 types):

  • Static nuclear bag
  • Dynamic nuclear bag
  • Nuclear chain (less elastic)
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What are the two types of afferent neurons in muscle spindles?

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Group Ia & Group II (cell bodies in dorsal root ganglion)

20
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Where are group Ia afferent neurons located and what do they detect?

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Wrap around the middle of IF muscle fibres (bag and chain)

Sense rapid change in muscle length

21
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Where are group II afferent neurons located and what do they detect?

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Wrap around the area just off the middle (mostly chain)

Less responsive to stretc

22
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What type of efferent neurons are located in muscle spindles?

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Gamma motor neurons (dynamic & static)

23
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How does reciprocal innervation occur in a pain withdrawal reflex?

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  • Afferent neurons conduct action potentials from receptors to spinal cord
  • Synapse with excitatory interneurons (withdrawal reflex)
  • Collateral branches of afferent neurons synapse with inhibitory interneurons
  • Inhibitory interneurons synapse with alpha motor neurons
  • Alpha motor neurons relax extensor muscles (reciprocal)
24
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What are the 3 ascending sensory spinal cord pathways?

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  • Dorsal column/medial lemniscus
  • Anterolateral/spinothalamic
  • Spinocerebellar
25
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What sensations and receptors are associated with the dorsal column?

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Sensations: Fine touch, pressure, vibration, conscious proprioception

Receptors: Sensitive mechanoreceptors

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What sensations and receptors are associated with the spinothalamic tract?

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Sensations: Pain, crude touch, temp

Receptors: Nociceptors, mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors

27
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What sensations and receptors are associated with the spinocerebellar tract?

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Sensations: Unconscious proprioception

Receptors: Golgi tendon organs, muscle spindles

28
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How is the spinocerebellar tract different from the other 2 spinal cord pathways?

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No 3rd order neuron, does not cross sides of the spinal cord

29
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What is the 1st order neuron for all 3 ascending sensory pathways?

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Dorsal root ganglion

30
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Where does the dorsal column cross to the other side of the spinal cord?

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At the 2nd order neuron, the nucleus cuneatus in the medulla

31
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Where does the spinothalamic tract cross to the other side of the spinal cord?

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At the 1st order neuron, the DRG

32
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What is myelin and where is it produced?

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  • A sheath made of a lipid layer that surrounds axons and facilitates fast signal conduction
  • Produced by Schwann cells in PNS
33
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What do myelinated nerves (type A) transmit?

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Large fibres: Motor function, proprioception, touch, pressure, pre-ganglionic signals
Small fibres: Pain, temperature, crude touch

34
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What do unmyelinated nerves (type C) transmit?

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Small fibres: Slowly transmit pain, touch, pressure, post-ganglionic signals

35
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What are the types of sensory neuron fibres?

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  • A-alpha (I)
  • A-beta (II)
  • A-delta (III)
  • C (IV)
36
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What does the Nottingham assessment test?

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Light touch
Pressure
Pinprick
Temperature
Tactile localisation
Bilateral simultaneous touch
Kinaesthetic sensation
Stereognosis
37
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What are the indications for neurological examination?

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  • Spinal symptoms extending past the point of shoulder or buttock crease
  • Reports of altered sensation/weakness in the limbs
38
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What does neurological examination screen for?

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  • Nerve conduction loss
  • PNS vs CNS involvement
  • Nerve root vs peripheral nerve injury/compression
  • Neural sensitisation
39
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What are the causes of nervous system disorders?

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  • Trauma
  • Vascular disorders
  • Infections
  • Degeneration
  • Structural disorders
  • Other, e.g. tumours
40
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What are the injury-related sensation changes in the spinal cord, nerve root and peripheral nerve?

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Spinal cord: Bilateral, non-dermatomal
Nerve root: Unilateral, dermatomal
Peripheral nerve: Unilateral, peripheral nerve

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What are the injury-related strength changes in the spinal cord, nerve root and peripheral nerve?

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Spinal cord: Bilateral, non-myotomal
Nerve root: Unilateral, myotomal
Peripheral nerve: Unilateral, peripheral nerve

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What are the injury-related reflex changes in the spinal cord, nerve root and peripheral nerve?

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Spinal cord: Bilateral increased, non-myotomal, +ve Babinski, clonus
Nerve root: Unilateral decreased, myotomal, -ve Babinski, clonus
Peripheral nerve: Unilateral decreased, peripheral nerve, -ve Babinski, clonus

43
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What is the nervi nervorum?

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Nerve of the nerve, contained within the perineurium and epineurium

44
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What are 3 types of traumatic peripheral nerve injuries?

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  • Neuropraxia
  • Axonotmesis
  • Neurotmesis
45
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What are the 2 types of pain?

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Nociceptive: Pain signal transmitted to CNS following tissue injury

Neurogenic: Pain generated by nerve due to nerve injury

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