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Week 9 Flashcards

1
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What do our skins and touch sensations do?

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  • Protect inner organ systems
  • Maintain homeostasis
  • Provide strong social feedback
  • Enable planned motion
  • Detect objects and textures
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The ability to sense the ** position** of the body and limbs.

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Proprioception

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The ability to sense ** movement ** of the body and limb.

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Kinethesis

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4
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Perception of touch and pain from stimulation of the skin.

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Cutaneous senses

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5
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Proprioception

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Our (static) perception of our bodies, caused by feedback rom the skin, muscles, and joints.

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Kinethesis

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Tracking our body as it moves
- information is sent to the spinal cord and brain from Corgi tendon organs (monitor tension) and muscle spindles (monitor stretch and speed). These are proprioceptors.
- motor signals return to the muscle to execute both planned and automatic movements.

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7
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Mechanoreceptors

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Provide detail about items we touch and hold.

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8
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The receptors that establish our ** cutaneous receptive fields ** include:

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  • Merkel receptors
  • Meissen corpuscles
  • Ruffini cylinders
  • Pacinian corpuses
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9
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Merkel receptors

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Fire continuously while stimulus is present.
Slow adapting - DETAIL

Have small cutaneous and high acuity. Located close to surface of skin.

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10
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Meissen corpuscles

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Fires only when a stimulus is first applied and when it is removed.
Rapid Adapting - responsible fro controlling HANDGRIP.

Have small cutaneous and high acuity. Located close to surface of skin.

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Ruffini cylinders

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Fires continuously to stimulation
Slow adapting - associated with STRETCHING of the skin around objects and gross movements.

Larger cutaneous receptive fields and low acuity. Located deeper in the skin.

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Pacinian corpuscles

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Fires only when a stimulus is first applied and when it is removed.
Rapid Adapting - associated with sensing FAST VIBRATIONS and FINE TEXTURE.

Larger cutaneous receptive fields and low acuity. Located deeper in the skin.

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13
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SA

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Slow Adapting

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RA

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Rapid Adapting

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15
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Which mechanoreceptors seems most useful for kinethesis?
A. Golgi tendon organ
B. Merkel
C. Meissner corpuscles
D. Ruffini cylinders
E. Pacinian corpuscles

A

D

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16
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Tactile Acuity

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Sensitivity to details on the skin

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17
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Two-point threshold

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Minimum separation needed between two points to perceive them as two points.

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18
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Grating acuity

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Place a grooved stimulus on the skin and the participants to indicate the orientation of the grating.

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19
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Raised pattern indentification

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Using letters or simple shapes to determine the smallest size that can be identified

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20
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Which mechanoreceptors do you expect to have the greatest acuity in the somatosensory system?
A. Merkel
B. Meissner corpuscles
C. Ruffini cylinders
D. Pacinian corpuscles

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A

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21
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What does the high density of Merkel disk receptors in the fingerprints (glamorous skin) mean?

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That its sensitive to small differences in the grating space.

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22
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What does the firing of the Merkel disk reflect?

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The pattern in the grooves on a grating acuity test
Pacinian does not

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23
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Cortical Magnification

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Strong correlation between areas of the hand and tactile acuity.

Finger tip > Base of finger > Palm

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24
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The Pacinian corpuscle CP is primarily responsible for

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Sensing vibration

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25
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Nerve fibers associated with PCs respond best to

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High rates of vibration
They are rapid adopting cells.

26
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The structure of the PC is responsible for the

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Response to vibration.
Fibers with the PC covering removed will respond to continuous pressure.

27
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Spatial cues

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Are determined by the size shape and distribution of surface elements like bump and grooves.
SA
Merkel

28
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Temporal cues

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Are determined by the rate of vibration his skin is moved across, finally texture surface like sandpaper.
RA
Pacinian

29
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Duplex theory of texture perception

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Perception of texture need to have special cues and temporal cues acting together.

30
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What can you use to determine which rapid adapting cell is involved in texture?

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Selective adaptation

31
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Result of the adaptation experiment to determine which rapid adapting cell involved in texture

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Only the adaptation to the 250Hz stimulus affected the perception of fine texture.
Movement is necessary for fine texture detection, and this involves Merkel cells and Pacinian corpuscles.

32
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Signals travel in bundles of nerve fibers, and enter the spinal cord via the ___

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Dorsal root

33
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Spinothalamic pathway

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Consists of smaller fibers that carry temperature and pain information

34
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Medial lemniscal pathway

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Consists of large fibers that carry proprioceptive and touch information

35
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Spinothalamic pathway and medial lemniscal pathway, both (mostly) pass through the _____ in the thalamus.

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Ventral Posterolateral nucleus.

36
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Signals travel from the thalamus to the primary somatosensory receiving area (S1), and the secondary receiving area (S2) in the ____ lobe.

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Parietal

37
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Homunculus

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Cortical representation of the body

38
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True or false: sensory and motor maps are static, and would not change.

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False, the Maps can change in response to sensory input

39
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Focal dystonia

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A neurological disorder that causes involuntary muscle movement or contractions in one part of your body.

40
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Haptic perception

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The use of active touch in the exploration of 3-D objects with the hands

41
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Three systems of haptic perception

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  1. Sensory system
  2. Motor system
  3. Cognitive system
42
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exploratory procedures

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Lateral motion
Pressure
Enclosure
Contour following

43
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True or false people can identify objects haptically in 1 to 2 seconds

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True

44
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In somatosensory cortex, single cell recordings indicate

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Some cells respond, maxima lead to orientations of stimuli and others to direction of the movement.

45
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What can also increase the firing rate of somatosensory cells?

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Paying attention

46
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Pain

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Multi modal phenomenon, containing a sensory component (from the area of pain) and an affective component (emotional).

47
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Skin uses pain receptors as a____

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Threat detection system

48
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Congenital insensitivity to pain CIP

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People with CIP don’t experience pain and can unintentionally injure themselves while performing normal activities.

49
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Sensory processing disorder SPD

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Can result when an individual is too sensitive to common sensations

50
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Nociceptive pain

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These signal impending damage to the skin
- Specific nociceptors respond to heat, chemicals, severe pressure and cold.
- These typically trigger a protective (withdrawal) response.

51
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Inflammatory pain

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Caused by damage or irritation, within tissues and joints

  • Infections or injury associated with immune responses make nociceptors more responsive (hyperalgesia)
  • tumor cells (release toxins in the tissue causing immune response)
52
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Neuropathic pain

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Caused by damage to the nervous system, including:
- Brain damage caused by stroke
- Repetitive movement which causes conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome.

53
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Social pain

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This perceived pain resulting from interactions with other people (or lack thereof)

  • Sometimes called, psychological or mental pain
  • Typically cases involving depression and social rejection
  • No tissue damage with strong affective element
54
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Direct pathway model

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Suggested that nociceptors are stimulated by the appropriate stimuli, and immediately send signals to the brain.
Problems with this model :
- Pain can be affected by a persons mental state
- Pain can occur when there is no stimulation of the skin (phantom limbs)
- Pain can be affected by a person’s attention.

55
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Gate control model

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the gate consists of substantia gelatinosa cells in the dorsal horn of the signal cord. (SG- and SG+)

56
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Gate input

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  • S small diameter fibers: information from nociceptors.
  • L large diameter fibers: information from tactile stimuli (Mechanoreceptors)
    -Central control: information from top down cognitive factors from the cortex.
57
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Gate output

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Gate output is transmission cell activity. More T cells activity means more intense pain.

58
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Pain ____ when the gate is closed by stimulation of SG- by central control or L-fibers.

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Decreases

59
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Pain ______ when stimulation of the S-fibers activate S+ to open the gate.

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Increases

60
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What can we do with the gate control model?

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We can regulate amount of pain sensed through other tactile input (rub or scratch), or cognitive factors, (mood or attention)

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