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Sensory, Motor & Integration Systems
Chapter 15
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Sensation & Perception
• Sensation is the detection of stimulus of internal or external receptors. It can be either conscious or subconcious
• Perception is the awareness and conscious interpretation of sensations. It is how the brain makes sense of or assigns meaning to the sensation.
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Modalities• A modality is a unique type or classification of
stimulus.
• We often divide them between general and special senses.
• General Senses include:– Somatic
• Touch
• Temperature
• Pain
• Pressure
• Proprioception
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Modalities (cont’d)• Visceral Senses
– Sense internal conditions, e.g.:• pH• Osmolarity• O2 and CO2 levels
Special Senses:• Vision• Hearing• Equilibrium• Taste• Olfaction
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Sensation
• Sensory receptors are “tuned” or selective to specific types of stimulus
• They are specific for a particular region of the body or receptive field
• For a stimulus to be detected it must be transduced
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Transduction• Transduction is the conversion of a stimulus into
an electrical event or potential
• A potential is a change in the membrane’s electrical condition
• There are graded potentials which are localized, variable in amplitude and fade with distance
• They can “sum” (or result in summation)
• If there is sufficient stimulus (reaching threshold, then an action potential may be generated
• Sensory neurons carrying impulses to the PNS are called first order neurons
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Sensory Receptors
• Sensory receptors may be classified by– Anatomical type
– Modality
– Location
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Fig.15.01
Anatomical classesBased on microscopic features
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Figure 15–2
Receptive Field
• Area is monitored by a single receptor cell• The larger the receptive field, the more difficult it
is to localize a stimulus
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Classification by location
• Exteroceptors: sense stimuli from outside the body (includes cutaneous receptors and most special senses except equilibrium)
• Interoceptors: sense stimuli from within (chemoreceptors, visceral stretch and pressure and pain)
• Proprioceptors: deal with muscle & joint position and equilibrium sense
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Tonic Receptors• Are always active
Phasic Receptors• Are normally inactive
• Become active for a short time whenever a change occurs
• Provide information about the intensity and rate of change of a stimulus
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Sensory adaptation
• Generator or receptor potential amplitudes will decline over time if a stimulus remains constant or below threshold for a given length of time
• Some adapt rapidly, some slowly
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Rapidly vs. Slowly
• Rapid– Pressure
– Touch
– Smell
• Slow– Proprioceptors
– pH & osmoreceptors
– Pain (really doesn’t adapt much)
Any receptor can act as a pain receptor if the stimulus is of adequate amplitude!
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Phasic adaptation
• Response characteristic of phasic receptors
Tonic Adaptation
• Show little peripheral adaptation
• Called slow-adapting receptors
• Remind you of an injury long after the initial damage has occurred
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General Sensesby location
• Exteroceptors - Provide information about the external environment
• Proprioceptors - Report the positions of skeletal muscles and joints
• Interoceptors - Monitor visceral organs and functions
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Classification Systemby stimulus
• Divides the general sensory receptors into 4 types by the nature of the stimulus that excites them:– nociceptors (pain)– thermoreceptors (temperature)– mechanoreceptors (physical distortion)– chemoreceptors (chemical concentration)
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Pain Receptors
• Also called nociceptors• Are common in the:
– superficial portions of the skin
– joint capsules– within the periostea of bones– around the walls of blood
vessels
• Free nerve endings with large receptive fields
Figure 15–2
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Type A and Type C Fibers(Type B fibers are found in the ANS)
• Carry painful sensations
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Myelinated Type A Fibers
• Carry sensations of fast pain, or prickling pain, such as that caused by an injection or a deep cut
• Sensations reach the CNS quickly and often trigger somatic reflexes
• Relayed to the primary sensory cortex and receive conscious attention
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Type C Fibers
• Carry sensations of slow pain, or burning and aching pain
• Cause a generalized activation of the reticular formation and thalamus
• You become aware of the pain but only have a general idea of the area affected
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Thermoreceptors
• Also called temperature receptors
• Are free nerve endings located in:– the dermis– skeletal muscles– the liver– the hypothalamus
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Thermoreceptors
• Also called temperature receptors
• Are free nerve endings located in:– the dermis– skeletal muscles– the liver– the hypothalamus
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Mechanoreceptors
• Sensitive to stimuli that distort their cell membranes
• Contain mechanically regulated ion channels whose gates open or close in response to:– stretching– compression– twisting– or other distortions of the membrane
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3 Classes of Mechanoreceptors
• Tactile receptors: – provide the sensations of touch, pressure, and
vibration:• touch sensations provide information about shape or
texture
• pressure sensations indicate degree of mechanical distortion
• vibration sensations indicate pulsing or oscillating pressure
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3 Classes of Mechanoreceptors
• Baroreceptors: – detect pressure changes in the walls of blood
vessels and in portions of the digestive, reproductive, and urinary tracts
• Proprioceptors: – monitor the positions of joints and muscles – the most structurally and functionally complex
of general sensory receptors
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Proprioceptors (not shown – Joint kinesthetic
receptors.)
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Fine Touch and Pressure Receptors
• Are extremely sensitive• Have a relatively narrow receptive field• Provide detailed information about a source of
stimulation, including:– its exact location– shape– size– texture– movement
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Crude Touch and Pressure Receptors
• Have relatively large receptive fields
• Provide poor localization
• Give little information about the stimulus
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Tactile ReceptorsFigure 15–3
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Baroreceptors
• Monitor change in pressure
• Consist of free nerve endings that branch within elastic tissues in wall of distensible organ (such as a blood vessel)
• Respond immediately to a change in pressure, but adapt rapidly
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Chemoreceptors
• Respond only to water-soluble and lipid-soluble substances dissolved in surrounding fluid
• Receptors exhibit peripheral adaptation over period of seconds, central adaptation may also occur
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Organization of the Primary Motor and Somatosensory cortices
• The Primary Motor Cortex is located on the precentral gyrus of the cerebral cortex.
• The Primary Somatosensory cortex is located on the postcentral gyrus
• The same areas of the body are represented in both hemispheres but they are connected contralaterally
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Somatic Sensory Pathways
The pathways to the sensory areas of the
cerebral cortex can be organized according to
the following hierarchy
• First-order neurons: somatic receptors to spinal cord or brain stem
• Second-order neurons: brain stem or spinal cord to thalamus (decussation occurs here)
• Third-order neurons: thalamus to cortex
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3 Major Somatic Sensory Pathways
Figure 15–4
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Fig. 15.05
The homunculus
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Posterior Column Pathway
• Carries sensations of highly localized (“fine”) touch, pressure, vibration, and proprioception
Figure 15–5a
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Figure 15–5a, bSensory Homunculus
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Figure 15–5c
Sensory Homunculus
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Sensations Bound
for Cerebral Cortex
• Ascend within the anterior or lateral spinothalamic tracts:– the anterior
spinothalamic tracts carry crude touch and pressure sensations
Figure 15–5b
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Sensations Bound
for Cerebral Cortex
• The lateral spinothalamic tracts carry pain and temperature sensations
Figure 15–5c
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Feeling Pain
• An individual can feel pain in uninjured part of body when pain actually originates at another location
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Strong Visceral Pain
• Sensations arriving at segment of spinal cord can stimulate interneurons that are part of anterolateral pathway
• Activity in interneurons leads to stimulation of primary sensory cortex, so an individual feels pain in specific part of body surface: – also called referred pain
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Referred Pain• The pain of a heart attack is frequently felt in the left arm• The pain of appendicitis is generally felt first in the area
around the navel and then in the right lower quadrant
Figure 15–6
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The Spinocerebellar Pathway
• Cerebellum receives proprioceptive information about position of skeletal muscles, tendons, and joints
Figure 15–7
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Spinocerebellar Tracts
• Axons of these second-order neurons ascend in 1 of the spinocerebellar tracts:– the posterior spinocerebellar tracts:
• contain axons that do not cross over to the opposite side of the spinal cord:
– axons reach cerebellar cortex via inferior cerebellar peduncle of that side
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Spinocerebellar Tracts– the anterior spinocerebellar tracts:
• dominated by axons that have crossed over to opposite side of spinal cord
• contain significant number of uncrossed axons as well:
– sensations reach the cerebellar cortex via superior cerebellar peduncle
– many axons that cross over and ascend to cerebellum then cross over again within cerebellum, synapsing on same side as original stimulus
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Spinocerebellar TractsTable 15–1
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Main Aspects of Sensory Perception
• Perceptual detection – detecting that a stimulus has occurred and requires summation
• Magnitude estimation – how much of a stimulus is acting
• Spatial discrimination – identifying the site or pattern of the stimulus
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Main Aspects of Sensory Perception
• Feature abstraction – used to identify a substance that has specific texture or shape
• Quality discrimination – the ability to identify submodalities of a sensation (e.g., sweet or sour tastes)
• Pattern recognition – ability to recognize patterns in stimuli (e.g., melody, familiar face)
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Motor Commands
• Issued by the CNS • Distributed by somatic nervous system
(SNS) and autonomatic nervous system (ANS):– SNS, or the somatic motor system, controls
contractions of skeletal muscles– ANS, or the visceral motor system, controls
visceral effectors, such as smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands
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Somatic Motor Pathways
• Always involve at least 2 motor neurons:– upper motor neuron:
• cell body lies in a CNS processing center– lower motor neuron
• cell body lies in a nucleus of the brain stem or spinal cord
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Upper Motor Neuron
• Synapses on the lower motor neuron
• Innervates a single motor unit in a skeletal muscle:– activity in upper motor neuron may facilitate or
inhibit lower motor neuron
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Lower Motor Neuron
• Triggers a contraction in innervated muscle:– only axon of lower motor neuron extends
outside CNS– destruction of or damage to lower motor neuron
eliminates voluntary and reflex control over innervated motor unit
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Figure 15–8
Concious and Subconscious Motor Commands
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Concious and Subconscious Motor Commands
• Control skeletal muscles by traveling over 3 integrated motor pathways:– corticospinal pathway– medial pathway– lateral pathway
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Corticospinal Pathway
Figure 15–9
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Corticospinal Pathway
• Sometimes called the pyramidal system• Provides voluntary control over skeletal
muscles:– system begins at pyramidal cells of primary
motor cortex– axons of these upper motor neurons descend into
brain stem and spinal cord to synapse on lower motor neurons that control skeletal muscles
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3 Pairs of Descending Tracts
• The corticospinal pathway contains 3 pairs of descending tracts:– coricobulbar tracts– lateral corticospinal tracts– anterior corticospinal tracts
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Corticobulbar Tracts
• Provide conscious control over skeletal muscles that move the eye, jaw, face, and some muscles of neck and pharynx
• Innervate motor centers of medial and lateral pathways
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The Pyramids
• As they descend, corticospinal tracts are visible along the ventral surface of medulla oblongata as pair of thick bands, the pyramids
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Crossing Over
• At spinal segment it targets, an axon in anterior corticospinal tract crosses over to opposite side of spinal cord in anterior white commissure before synapsing on lower motor neurons in anterior gray horns
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Fig. 15.05
The homunculus
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Motor Homunculus
Figure 15–9
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Proportions of Motor
Homunculus
Figure 15–5a
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Somatic Motor Commands
• Several centers in cerebrum, diencephalons, and brain stem may issue somatic motor commands as result of processing performed at subconscious level
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Primary Functions
• These nuclei and tracts are grouped by their primary functions:– components of medial pathway help control
gross movements of trunk and proximal limb muscles
– components of lateral pathway help control distal limb muscles that perform more precise movements
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Medial Pathway
• Primarily concerned with control of muscle tone and gross movements of neck, trunk, and proximal limb muscles
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Upper Motor Neurons of Medial Pathway
• Are located in:– vestibular nuclei– superior and inferior colliculi– reticular formation
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Vestibular Nuclei
• Receive information over the vestibulococlear nerve (VIII) from receptors in inner ear that monitor position and movement of the head:– primary goal is to maintain posture and balance– descending fibers of spinal cord constitute
vestibulospinal tracts
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Superior and Inferior Colliculi
• Are located in the roof of the mesencephalon, or the tectum:– colliculi receive visual (superior) and auditory
(inferior) sensations– axons of upper motor neurons in colliculi
descend in tectospinal tracts – these axons cross to opposite side, before
descending to synapse on lower motor neurons in brain stem or spinal cord
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Lateral Pathway
• Primarily concerned with control of muscle tone and more precise movements of distal parts of limbs:– axons of upper motor neurons in red nuclei
cross to opposite side of brain and descend into spinal cord in rubrospinal tracts
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Lateral PathwayTable 15–2
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Basal Nuclei and Cerebellum
• Responsible for coordination and feedback control over muscle contractions, whether contractions are consciously or subconsciously directed
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Basal Nuclei
• Provide background patterns of movement involved in voluntary motor activities
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Cerebellum
• Monitors:– proprioceptive (position) sensations– visual information from the eyes– vestibular (balance) sensations from inner ear
as movements are under way
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Sensory and Motor Pathway Patterns
• All sensory and motor pathways involve a series of synapses, one after the other
• General pattern: – spinal and cranial reflexes provide rapid,
involuntary, preprogrammed responses that preserve homeostasis over short term
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Cranial and Spinal Reflexes
• Control the most basic motor activities
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Integrative Centers in the Brain
• Perform more elaborate processing
• As we move from medulla oblongata to cerebral cortex, motor patterns become increasingly complex and variable
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Primary Motor Cortex
• Most complex and variable motor activities are directed by primary motor cortex of cerebral hemispheres
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Reticular Formation
• Loosely organized network of neurons that extends throughout brain stem:– axons of upper motor neurons in reticular
formation descend into reticulospinal tracts without crossing to opposite side
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The RAS
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