1. Dermatomes are the regions on the body that correspond with specific cranial or spinal nerves. Damage to a nerve will cause loss of sensation and motor function in that region of the body.

2. Guillain-Barre Syndrome involves demyelinization of peripheral nerves http://www.monografias.com/trabajos37/sindrome-guillain-barre/Image8645.jpg

4. The Braille Alphabet

5. Governor Paterson of New York is legally blind. He does not read Braille, but he does have a tremendous memory.

6. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/17143.htm

7. from http://www.cureparalysis.org/faq/spine.gifhttp://www.cureparalysis.org/faq/spine.gif

8. Sensory pathways cross to the opposite side of the spinal cord or medulla before ascending to the cortex. http://thalamus.wustl.edu/ course/bsen1.gif

9. From: McPhee, Lingappa, Ganong & Lange Pathophysiology of Disease 1995

11. http://ww2.heartandstroke.ca/images/english/stroke_isc_web.jpg

12. http://ww2.heartandstroke.ca/images/english/stroke_hem_web.jpg