Neuroscience Pathways and hard lectures

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  • Created on: 04-05-17 18:09
what does the spinothalamic tract carry messages about?
Pain
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what is the corticobulbar tract important for?
controls movement of the tongue
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what neurons are involved with the corticobulbar tract?
upper motor neurons
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where in the brainstem does the corticobulbar tract go to?
hypoglossal nucleus
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what tract carrys mechanoreceptive and propiceptive signals to the thalamus?
medial lemniscus tract
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in the medial lemniscal tract (upper body) what do 1st order upper mody neurons synapse onto? at where?
lateral, synapse at cuneate nucleus
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which order of neurons in upper body cross the midline in the medial lemniscal tract?
2nd order neurons
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what do 2nd order neurons (upper body) in the medial lemniscal tract acend to?
ascend the medial lemniscus
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what is the sequence of events in the medial lemniscal tract in the lower body?
1st order neurons- medial synapse at gracile nuclus, 2nd order cross midline now lateral, ascend medial lemniscus, 3rd order neurons- medial
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upper body of lemniscal tract relies on what nucleus?
caudeate nucleus
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what uses the gracile nucleus
lowe body medial lemniscal tract
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what is the spinothalamic tract for?
pain,temp and crude touch
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where does the spinothalamic tract synapse onto?
dorsal horns
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response of the spinothalmic tract corresponds to what?
the intensity of pain
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is the spinothalmaic tract topographic?
yes
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pain goes to what parts of the brain?
insula and cignulate nucleus
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in the spinothalmaic tract whre can info go from the pons?
to the hypothalamus and limbic system, or the thalamus, cingulate + insula cortex
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what kind of tract is the vestibulocspinal tract?
upper motor neuron tract from the brainstem
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