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Sensory, Motor and Integrative Systems

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Perception   Conscious awareness and the interpretation of meaning of sensations.  
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Sensory modality   Unique type of sensation (i.e.-touch, pain, vision or hearing)  
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General senses   Somatic senses and visceral senses  
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Special senses   Sensory modalites of smell, taste, hearing and equilibrium.  
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Sensory receptor   Specialized cell or dendrites of of a sensory neuron.  
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Transduce -   Convert (energy)  
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Free nerve endings   bare dendrites, lack any structural specializations that can be seen under a light microscope.  
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Free nerve ending receptors   Receptors for pain, thermal, tickle, itch and some touch.  
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Encapsulated nerve ending receptors   Dendrites are enclosed in a connective tissue capsule that has a distictive microscopic structure- i.e. Lamellated (pacincian) corpuscles  
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Separate cells (synapse with 1st order sensory neurons)   Hair cells (hearing, equilibrium) gustatory receptors (taste buds)  
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Photoreceptors   Specialized separate cells for vision.  
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Exterceptors   At or near body surface.  
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Interoceptors   Located in blood vessels, visceral organs and nervous system.  
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Proprioceptors   Located in muscles, tendons, joints and inner ear.  
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Exterceptors   Provide info about external enviroment, convey visual, smell, taste, touch, pressure, vibration, therman and pain sensations.  
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Interceptors   Provide info about internal enviroment, impulses produced usually are not consciously perceived but occasinally may be felt as pressure or pain.  
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Proprioceptors   Provide info about body position, muscle length, tension, position and motion of joints and equilibrium.  
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Mechanocreceptors   Detect mechanical pressure.  
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Mechanocreceptors   Provide sensations of touch, pressure, vibration, proprioceptino, hearing and equilibrium  
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Mechanocreceptors   Monitor stretching of blood vessels and internal organs.  
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Thermoreceptors   Detect changes in temperature.  
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Nociceptors   Respond to stimuli resulting from physical or chemical damage to tissue.  
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Photoreceptors   Detect light that strikes the retina of the eye  
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Chemoreceptors   Detect chems in mouth (taste)  
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Osmoreceptors   Sense the osmotic pressure of body fluids.  
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Primary motor area   Located in the precentral gyrus, this is hte major control region of the cerebral cortex for initiation of voluntary movements.  
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Pyramidal pathways   Direct pathways conveying impulses from the cortex to the spinal cord.  
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Lateral corticospinal tracts   contain motor neurons that control skilled movements of the hands and feet.  
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Extrapyramidal pathways   tracts include rubrospinal, tectospinal, vestibulospinal, lateral reticulospinal, and medial reticulospinal.  
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Basal ganglia   Contain neurons that help initiate and terminate movements; can supress unwanted movements; influence muscle tone.  
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Anteriolateral (spinothalamic) pathways   Mainly carry pain and temperature impulses.  
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Spinocerebellar pathways   The major routes relaying proprioceptive input to the cerebellum; critical for posture, balance and coordination of skilled movements.  
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Posterior column   Include the gracile fasciculus and cuneate fasciculus  
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Anterior corticospinal tracts   Contain motor neurons that coordinate movements of hte axial skeleton.  
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Corticobulbar pathways   Contain Axons that convey impusles for precise, voluntary movements of eyes, tongue, and neck, plus chewing, facial expression, and speech.  
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Posterior column-medial lemniscus pathways   Convey sensations of fine touch, stereognosis, proprioception and weight discrimination to the cerebral cortex  
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Muscle spindles   Specialized groupings of muscle fibers interspersed along regular skeletal muscle fibers and oriented parallel to them; monitor changes in teh length of a skeletal muscle.  
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Tendon organs   Inform CNS about changes in muscle tension  
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Nociceptors   Free nerve ending receptors for pain.  
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Meissner corpuscles   Encapsulated receptors for touch located in teh dermal papillae; found in hairless skin, eyelids, tip of the tongue and lips.  
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Pacinian corpuscles   Lamellated corpuscles that detect pressure  
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Ruffini corpuscles   Lamellated corpuscles that detect pressure.  
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Cold receptors   Located int eh stratum basale and activated by low temperatures  
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Warm receptors   Located in teh dermis and activated by high temperatures.  
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Joint kinesthetic receptors   Found within and around the articular capsules of snovial joitns; respond to pressure and acceleration and deceleration of joints.  
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Merkel discs   Type I cutaneous mechanoreceptors that function in fine touch.  
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