Somatic Senses General Sensory System
Sensation Define Stimulus Type Sensory Organ Sensory Receptors Exteroceptors Interoceptors Proprioceptors Receptor Potential Transduction Pathway Response Adaptation
Somatosensory Receptors Nocireceptors Thermoreceptors Mechanoreceptors Tactile Baroreceptors Proprioceptors Chemoreceptors
Somatosensory Exteroceptors
Somatic Sensory Modalities Discriminative Touch Pressure, Vibration, Texture Rapidly Adapting Meissners Corpuscles Pacinian Corpuscles Slowly Adapting Merkel Disks Pain and Temperature Free nerve endings Fast Pain : A Fibers Slow Pain: C Fibers Ruffini corpuscle: heat Krause corpuscle: cold Proprioception Muscle Spindle Golgi Tendon Organ
Pseudounipolar Neuron
Ascending Sensory Tracts
Crossing Over
General Somatosensory Pathway
Ascending Sensory Spinal Cord Tract Information Touch and Pressure Discriminative Dorsal Columns: Fasciculus Group Crude Anterior Spinal Thalamic Pain and Temperature Lateral Spinal Thalamic Proprioception Length : Posterior Spinocerebellar Force: Anterior Spinocerebellar
Sensory Cortex
Sensory Homunculus
Association Areas
Touch and Pressure
Meissners Corpuscles
Pacinian Corpuscles
Merkel Disks
Posterior [Dorsal] Columns
Sensory Receptors: Pain
Sensory Receptors: Temperature
Proprioception
Histology of Proprioceptors Muscle Spindle Fibers Golgi Tendon Organ
Experiments Discrimination tests Location Density Threshold Adaptation
Testing Fields for Pressure
Depth and Threshold
Receptor Potentials
Receptor Testing Variations
Temperature
Somatosensory Responds to: Contact with foreign objects Warning Feedback Development Changes in temperature Warning Heat regulation Avoid Damage
Dermatomes Skin region monitored Sensory receptors Spinal Nerve pair maps the body CN V supplies face
Cranial Nerves with Somatosensory CN V Ophthalmic Br. Maxillary Br. Mandibular Br. CN X ANS parasympathetic for pain
Reflex Response
Pain and Temperature Reflex
Reflex Testing
Motor Response from Higher Centers
Descending Motor Tracts Corticospinal Lateral Anterior Corticobulbar Vestibulospinal Tectospinal Recticulospinal Rubrospinal