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1
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What are alpha-beta nerve cells involved with?

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Touch, vibration, conscious proprioception

2
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Where do alpha beta nerve cells run in the spinal cord?

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Dorsal funiculus

3
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Hair cell receptors

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Unencapsulated; hairy skin; deep field; activated via hair movement

4
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Meissner’s Corpuscles

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Hairy and glabrous skin; Surface small field; activated by light touch, texture, low freq vibrations; adapts quickly

5
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Merkel’s Disk

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Hairy and glabrous skin; Surface small field; activated by light touch and pressure; only nerve cell in epidermis; adapts slowly

6
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Pacinian Corpuscles

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Hairy and glabrous skin; deep large field, activated by deep pressure and high freq vibrations; like onion; adapts quickly

7
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Ruffini endings

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Glabrous (hairy?) skin only; deep large field; activated by deep pressure and stretch; adapts slowly

8
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How do people tell where their joints and limbs are?

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Alpha-beta nerves are located in joints and convey conscious proprioception to brain

9
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What receptors are involved most in 2 point discrimination?

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Meissners and Merkels because both are superficial; highest concentration in lips and fingertips

10
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Faciculus Gracillis

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Have axons from T7 and below; located medially in dorsal funiculus

11
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Faciculus Cuneatus

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Have axons from T6 and above, located more laterally in dorsal funiculus

12
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How are axons from body parts arranged in the dorsal column?

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Lower body parts are located more medially

13
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What will happen with a lesion in the dorsal column?

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Loss of ipsilateral touch, vibration, and conscious proprioception

14
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Where do fasciculus cuneatus axons synapse?

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Ipsilateral nucleus cuneatus

15
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Where do fasciculus gracillis axons synapse?

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Ipsilateral nucleus gracillis

16
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Where do touch, vibration, and conscious proprioception axons cross the midline?

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Internal arcuate in medulla; go to contralateral thalamus via medial lemniscus

17
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Where do touch, vibration, and conscious proprioception nerve fibers go after passing through the thalamus?

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Contralateral somatosensory cortex

18
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How is the somatosensory cortex arranged?

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Lower limbs medial; face more lateral

19
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Romberg Sign

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Swaying when closing eyes with feet together since so conscious proprioception

20
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Dorsal column lesion deficits

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Positive Romberg, Lhermitte’s Sign (shooting pain when bending neck down), Agraphesthesia (number on hand), Astereognosia (ID by touch)