Somatic Sensations 1 Flashcards
Components of the central and peripheral nervous systems that receive sensory information from the external and internal environment:
Somatic Senses
Specific functions making it possible for humans to experience and interact with the enviornment
Special Senses
Special senses:
Grouped in localized areas
Concentrated in specific locations in the head
Complex neural pathways (Vision, Hearing/Balance, Smell, Taste)
Somatic senses:
Widely distributed
Scattered throughout the body
Simple structures (relatively) (Tactile, Thermal, Pain, Proprioceptive, Visceral, “Deep”)
Somatic Senses - Mechanoreception:
Tactile &Position
Somatic Senses - Thermoreception:
Hot & Cold
Somatic Senses - Nociception:
Pain from tissue damage
Somatic Senses - Exteroreception:
Surface of the body
Somatic Senses - Proprioception:
Position of the body
Somatic Senses - Visceral:
Internal organ sensations
Somatic Senses - Deep:
Tissues, muscle, bone, tendons
6 Types of Tactile receptors:
Free nerve endings
Meissner’s corpuscle
Merkel’s Discs
Hair end-organ
Ruffini’s endings
Pacinian Corpscle
What Receptor is associated with - Touch, & Pressure detection (Only receptor found in cornea of the eye)
Free Nerve Endings
What Receptor is associated with - Touch and vibration, is very sensitive, quickly adapts to sensation, is a long encapsulated nerve ending (Large myelinated fibers type AB) Location: non-hairy skin, fingertips, fingernails, lips.
Meissner’s Corpuscle
What Receptor is associated with - “expanded Tip” Iggo dome receptor, Touch localization and texture sensation, determination of continual touch, Strong initial adaptation followed by weak adaptation of stimulus continues, Location: Fingertips, Hairy-parts of the skin, Steady-state signals
Merkel’s Discs
What Receptor is associated with - Protruding epithelium with a collection of Merkel discs creating a “dome”, “Receptor Organ”, Extremely sensitive receptor!, One large myelinated cell (type AB)
Merkel’s Discs - Iggo Dome Receptor
What Receptor is associated with - Interweaving base of hair roots, Touch receptors, Detects movement of the object on the skin and initial contact with the body.
Hair End- Organ
What Receptor is associated with - Deep in the skin layers & internal tissues, Also found in joint capsules (joint rotation), multi branched, encapsulated, slow adaptation (signals continuous states of stimulation), Touch & pressure receptors.
Ruffini’s Endings
What Receptor is associated with - lay beneath the skin & deep into tissues, rapid local compression stimulation, adapt to the compression very QUICK! detects rapid changes & tissue vibration, single myelinated nerve
Pacinian Corpuscles
More critical Receptors:
Transmit signals via Type AB nerve fibers, 30-70m/sec, Precision of location, minute intensity changes, or acute changes in sensation. Meissner’s, Iggo Dome, Hair, Pacinian & Ruffini’s
Not-so critical Receptors:
Transmits signals via Type A delta fibers, 5-30m/sec, Pressure, poorly localized touch & tickle (some FNEs transmit via C fibers, 2m/sec, mainly tickle)
What types of tactile receptors are involve in detection of vibrations?
All tactile receptors, but each detects different frequencies
What tactile receptor detects high frequency vibrations in the 300-800 cycles/se range, has rapid response to deformation, Type AB nerve fiber transmission
Pacinian
What tactile receptor detects slow frequency vibrations in the 2-80 cycles/sec range (slow response to deformation compared to Pacinian)
Meissner’s