Wk 3 - LE 5: Neuromuscular (spinal control & sensory influence on muscle)

Question 1

What are rhythmic motor patterns?

Answer 1

movement without voluntary effort (e.g. breathing, walking)

Question 2

What is rhythmic motor pattern sustained by?

Answer 2

Central pattern generators (CPGs)

Question 3

What generates alternating bursts of activity in opposing flexor and extensor muscles ??

Answer 3

Locomotor central pattern generators (CPGs) in the spinal cord

Question 4

Sensory neurons important to movement originate within _____, _____ and _____.

Answer 4

muscle, tendons and joints

Question 5

Sensory neurons can be activated by 3 types of stimuli…

Answer 5

1) mechanical
2) chemical
3) thermal

Question 6

A monosynaptic pathway mediates _______

Answer 6

contraction of stretched muscle (one neuron connects with another)

Question 7

A disynaptic pathway mediates ______ of agonists

Answer 7

relaxation

Question 8

Muscle spindles sense _____

Answer 8

Length/stretch of muscle (an example of sensorimotor pathway)

Question 9

Golgi tendon organs sense_____

Answer 9

Force in muscle