Sensory Pathways

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1. Which of the muscle and joint mechanoreceptors is responsible for the detection of joint position and movement?

  • Muscle spindle secondary
  • Golgi tendon organ
  • Joint capsule
  • Muscle spindle primary
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2. Which of the following is not true for rapidly adapting receptors and is true for ONLY slowly adapting receptors?

  • It is part of a peripheral mechanism to inhibit sensory information so the brain is not overloaded
  • The receptor encodes the duration and intensity of stimuli
  • It characterised by a burst of action potentials which rapidly decays
  • The receptor encodes the dynamic features of stimuli

3. The dorsal column and anterolateral system both have their second synapse with what?

  • VPL nucleus
  • VPM nucleus
  • Lamina V cell
  • Primary somatic sensory cortex
  • Medulla

4. Which of these is not a type of organisation present in the primary somatic sensory cortex?

  • Columnar Organisation
  • Lateral Organisation
  • Modality Organisation
  • Somatotopic Organisation

5. Where is the VPL nucleus located?

  • Spinal cord
  • Brainstem
  • Thalamus
  • Hypothalamus
  • Cerebral Cortex
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