Deck 11: Essay

Question 1

Describe the effects of caudate-putamen damage.

Answer 1

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Question 2

What are the roles of the direct and indirect pathways in the basal ganglia?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What are the causes and symptoms of cerebral palsy?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Describe the role of the cerebellum in motor learning based on sensory feedback.

Question 5

What are the three major classes of somatosensory receptors? What role does each of these classes of receptors play in somatosensation?

Question 6

What kinds of movement problems arise following damage to premotor cortex?

Question 7

What are the effects of deafferentation?

Question 8

Compare and contrast the roles of the anterior and lateral corticospinal tracts in motor control.

Question 9

What are the symptoms of Tourette syndrome?

Question 10

What role does the brainstem play in movement?

Question 11

How does the motor cortex change in response to damage?

Question 12

Compare and contrast the roles of the prefrontal cortex,the premotor cortex,and the primary motor cortex in the control of movement.

Question 13

What are the basal ganglia? What role do the basal ganglia play in motor control?

Question 14

Discuss the hierarchical organization of movement control.

Question 15

What is a homunculus as it relates to the brain?

Question 16

How does the cerebellum improvement movement control?

Question 17

What is hapsis? What receptors are responsible for our sensation of haptic information?

Question 18

Differentiate between rapidly adapting and slowly adapting receptors.

Question 19

Compare and contrast the aspects of movement that are thought to be stored in the motor cortex from the perspectives of Penfield and Graziano.

Question 20

Differentiate between paraplegia and quadriplegia,including the regions of the spinal cord that are involved.

Question 21

What are the symptoms of apraxia? What brain regions are typically damaged in apraxia?

Question 22

Compare and contrast the roles of the posterior and anterior spinothalamic tracts.

Question 23

Describe the organization of somatosensory cortex in areas 1,2,and 3.

Question 24

What is phantom limb pain? What does existence of phantom limb pain tell us about the organization of the somatosensory system?

Question 25

What are the components of the vestibular system? What is the role of the vestibular system in somatosensation?

Question 26

List the components of the posterior spinothalamic tract.

Question 27

Describe the gate theory of pain.What is a pain gate?