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Sensory Systems (Lecture 6)

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Dermatomes   31 pairs of spinal nerves, sensory and motor that innervate the regions of the body accordingly  
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Types of Sensation   Mechanoreceptive (Tactile), Thermoreceptive (Temperature), Nociceptive (Pain)  
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Free nerve endings sense   pain, temperature, some tactile  
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Free nerve endings are located   throughout body (skin, tissue, visceral organs)  
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Free nerve endings   Can send information at slow rate for long periods of time (constant dull ache)  
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Encapsulated endings sense   tactile  
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Free nerve endings are located primarily   in skin of fingertips, palms, bottom of feet, lips, genitalia  
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Free nerve endings have   a fluid filled layer around fluid, displaced fluid stimulates nerve  
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Free nerve endings are   Most sensitive, primarily mechanical  
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Free nerve ending Meissner Corpuscles   closer to skin surface, light touch sensation primarily in hands and feet  
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Free nerve ending Pacinian   larger endings, more responsive to deep pressure  
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Expanded tip endings sense   tactile and temperature  
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Expanded tip endings are located   in dermas (skin) and joints  
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Expanded tip ending Ruffini Endings   spindle shaped, sensitive to skin stretch, contribute to sense of finger position movement (i.e. gripping), in deeper layers monitors angle change in joints  
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Expanded tip ending Merkel Receptors   extremely sensitive to tissue displacement, feel find details in fingertips  
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Three neuron organization of a sensory pathway: First order neurons   cell bodies in dorsal root ganglion of spinal cord transmit sensory information from the periphery to second order neurons  
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Three neuron organization of a sensory pathway: Second order neurons   most cell bodies in brainstem (though some may be in spinal cord), cross at midline and transmit to third order neurons  
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Three neuron organization of a sensory pathway: Third order neurons   cell bodies in thalamus (not vestibular or olfactory), most information projects to postcentral gyrus (sematosensory cortex), if the sensory information is taste then to gustatory cortex, if hearing then auditory cortex, and if visual then visual cortex  
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Touch decussates   ipsilaterally in medulla  
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Pain and temperature decussate   at the level of the spinal cord and ascend contralaterally  
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DCML (dorsal column medial leminiscus) PATHWAY   Made up of encapsulated nerve fibers that carries mechanosensory (touch) info from posterior third of head and from the rest of the body  
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DCML (dorsal column medial leminiscus) FUNCTION   Primarily for proprioception, fine touch discrimination, and sense of vibration  
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DCML (dorsal column medial leminiscus): Fasciculus Gracilis   mediates touch from lower half of body  
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DCML (dorsal column medial leminiscus): Fasciculus Cuneatus   mediates discriminative touch from upper half of the body  
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DCML (dorsal column medial leminiscus)DAMAGE   fine touch sensation and proprioception damage to whichever dermatome is affected  
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Anterolateral System: Lateral Spinothalamic Tract PATHWAY   free nerve endings Anterolateral System: Lateral Spinothalamic Tract FUNCTION  
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Anterolateral System: Lateral Spinothalamic Tract DAMAGE   decreased contralateral sense of pain, phantom limb  
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Anterolateral System: Anterior Spinothalamic Tract PATHWAY:   contains all three types of nerve endings  
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Anterolateral System: Anterior Spinothalamic Tract FUNCTION   General touch sensation, diffuse; Back up sensory system to DCML  
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Anterolateral System: Anterior Spinothalamic Tract DAMAGE:   no obvious clinical deficit but useful for telling if there is damage to DCML  
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Trigeminal Nerve (V) PATHWAYS   contains all three types of nerve endings  
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Nerve ending types   Encapsulated: fine discriminative touch, Free nerve endings: pain and temperature; All types: diffuse touch  
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Trigeminal Nerve Three branch FUNCTIONS:   Opthalamic: mediates from nose to half of scalp; Maxillary: from midface; Mandibular: from mandible side of face and part of outer ear  
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Trigeminal Nerve DAMAGE:   trigeminal neuralgia (excruciating chronic pain)  
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Central Visual PATHWAYS:   from retina to primary visual cortex. Nasal and temporal quadrants, and upper and lower portions as well. Temporal fibers project to ipsilateral cortex, nasal fibers decussate contralaterally.  
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Central Visual Damage: Homonymous   similar regions  
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Central Visual Damage: Heteronymous   two different regions of visual field  
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Central Visual Damage: Homonymous hemainopsia   same field of each eye, damage to optic tract (ex. homonymouse right hemianopsia)  
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Central Visual Damage: Monocular blindness   Blindness in one eye, damage to optic nerve  
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Central Visual Damage: Bitemporal hemianopsia   Opposite fields affected in each eye, damage to optic chiasm  
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Central Visual Damage: Nasal hemianopsia   blindness in both nasal visual fields, have peripheral vision, damage to optic chiasm  
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Central Visual Damage: Superior quadrantanopsia   blindness in upper quadrant, damage to optic tract  
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Central Visual Damage: Inferior quadrantanopsia   blindness in lower quadrant, damage to optic tract  
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Central Visual PATHWAYS:   Optic chiasm: enters cortex, Lateral geniculate body in Thalamus, Primary visual cortex (Broadman Area 17)  
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Central Auditory: Pathway from cochlea   Cochlear nuclear complex: tone, phase, timing, press. lvls; Sup. olivary com.: localize; Lat. lem.: pri. ascending aud. pthwy; In. coll.: analyze complex patterns; Med. geniculate bdy: thalamus (relay aud. info to pri. aud. cor.); Pri. aud. cor. (41,42)  
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Central Auditory DAMAGE   Hearing impairments: sensorimotor hearing loss; Central auditory impairments;  
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Central Auditory DAMAGE: Lower brainstem   sound localization issues (superior olivary), sound discrimination issues (lateral leminiscus);  
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Central Auditory DAMAGE: Upper brainstem   decreases reflexive response to sudden and loud noises and also difficulty selecting and attending to auditory stimuli (inferior colliculus)  
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Central Auditory DAMAGE: Cortical lesions   Wernicke's aphasia or auditory discrimination problems with specific phonemes  
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Vestibular System   body equilibrium  
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Vestibular System Components:Semicircular canal system   interconnected fluid (lymph) filled ducts, control equilibrium  
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Vestibular System Components: Vestibulo-ocular reflex   how eye is fixated while the body and head are moving  
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Vestibular System Components: Otolithic organs   sensitive to gravity and linear acceleration (horizontal and vertical acceleration)  
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Vestibular System Components: Vestibular nuclear complex   primary afferent vestibular projections to cerebellum, located in the floor of the medulla and behind the fourth ventricle, receives information from semicircular canals and otolithic organs  
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Vestibular System Components: Cerebellum   regulates head and neck in space, monitors posture reflexes  
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Vestibular System Damage   Motion sickness, Vertigo  
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Vestibular System Damage: Labyrinth dysfunction (within semicircular canals)   vertigo, disequilibrium, nystagmus, nausea  
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Vestibular System Damage: Benign positional vertigo   spinning sensation when head moved  
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Vestibular System Damage: Nystagmus   involuntary and irregular eye movement  
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Vestibular System Damage: Meniere disease   caused by high lymph pressure in semicircular canals and otolithic organs, symptoms are tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, eventually deafness  
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