Somatosens - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Spinal Recording Site for lower SSEPs - Answer T10-T12 and generates the lumbar potential Cervical recording site for lower SSEPs - Answer Typically at cervical vertebra 5 Alternative recording sites for SSEP - Answer A1/A2 or M1/M2 to reference Peripheral recording site for upper SSEPs - Answer Erb's point Erb's point - Answer records a propagating signal from the Brachial Plexus -this data point is often useful in detecting positioning effect Upper recording cervica...

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PNB 2XB3 - Midterm 2: Somatosensory Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Merkell cells - Answer-- slowly adapting - 25% of mechanosensory afferents in hand - highest spatial resolution - edges, points, corners, curvature - static indentation ** Meissener - Answer-- rapidly adapting -40% of mechanosensory innervation in hand - skin motion, indentation, low frequency vibrations for textured objects*** - more than 4x more sensitive than Merkell to skin deformation, but larger recepti...

Porth's Pathophysiology 10th Edition Ch 14- Somatosensory Function, Pain, and TemperaturePorth's Pathophysiology 10th Edition Ch 14- Somatosensory Function, Pain, and TemperaturePorth's Pathophysiology 10th Edition Ch 14- Somatosensory Function, Pain, and Temperature

PNB 2XB3 Lecture 4: Somatosensory System Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions dermatome - Answer-the area of skin supplied by the sensory axons of a single spinal nerve dorsal horn - Answer-the POSTERIOR column of grey matter in the spinal cord (shape differs depending on spinal segment) - contains SENSORY neuron cell bodies ventral horn - Answer-the ANTERIOR column of grey matter in the spinal cord (shape differs depending on spinal segment) - contains MOTOR neuron cell bodies 3 ty...

Somatosensory Evoked Potentials questions with correct answers

Chapter 14 Somatosensory Function, Pain, Headache, and Temperature Regulation

This document contains a summary of the lecture, and chapter 9 of the book neuroscience by purves about somatosensory systems.

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Neuroscience (NEU) module.