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Jingying T.A.
Department of Physiology
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review
sensory receptors
sensation
review
neuronal pools:
review
1.Adequate stimulus
Different sensitivity
2.Transduction
Receptor potential
(also called : Generator potential)
3.Encoding
Property: special receptor—labeled line (modality of sensation)
Intensity: frequency of AP and number of fiber
4.Adaptation
Rapidly adapting receptor eg.
Slow adapting receptor eg.
sensory receptors
receptor stimulus
light
strike
sensory receptors
From receptor-potential
to action potential
sensory receptors
sensation
thalamus
Sensory
cortex
sensation
Somatosensory system:
responsible for the sensations of
----
touch,
temperature,
proprioception (joint position),
pain.
Pathway---neurons:
1st : dorsal root ganglia
2: spinal cord ()
3: thalamus
sensation
Pathway---tracts:
1 a.the dorsal column
b.the anterolateral column
2 medical lemniscus
3 sensory projection system
sensation
Two pathways:
Dorsal column – medial lemniscal system.
Anterolateral system---
Lateral spinothalamic tract
Anterior spinothalamic tract
sensation
Dorsal column – medial lemniscus
Fine touch and proprioception
sensation
1. Touch sensations requiring a high
degree of localization of the situation.
2. Touch sensations requiring transmission
of fine gradation of intensity
3. Phasic sensation, such as vibratory
sensation
4. Sensations that signal movement against
skin
5. Position sensation from the joints
dorsal
6. Pressure sensation having to do with fine cloumn
degrees of judgment of pressure intensity pathway
sensation
Anterolateral system
sensation
1. Pain
2. Thermal sensation, including
both warm and cold sensation
3. Crude touch and pressure
sensation capable of only
crude localizing ability on the
surface of the body
4. Tickle and itch sensations
5. Sexual sensations spinothalamic
pathway
sensation
Thalamus:
1. Specific sensory relay nucleus
2. Associated nucleus
3. Nonspecific projection nucleus
sensation
Sensory projection system:
specific
non-specific
sensation
Specific non-specific
specific area , wide area no point to point
Project area point to point mainly in every layer
in layer 4 axon-body axon-dendrite synapse
synapse