Somatosensory system

With forty-eight percent of families living with children ranging from ages 2-17 owning at least the four entertainment staples; television, VCR, computer, and video games; It’s no surprise that technology is impacting the development of children in this new modern era (Woodward and Gridina). As the effects of technology’s impact on the growth of children is brought to light, it is time to take control and insure its positive use in society. Technology is limiting the growth of the essential…

• Do you learn best in a group or through individual training? Would a mix of the two work for you? • Do you find study groups beneficial? How frequently would you want to meet if so? • Are you a visual, aural, verbal, or kinesthetic learner? Most people are a mix, but all of us are dominant in one over the others. ⁃ Visual learners prefer pictures, diagrams, images, videos, and spatial relationships. They learn by seeing. ⁃ Aural learners prefer spoken words, lectures, podcasts, sounds,…

Gather and integrate pertinent background information from the client Residual Disabilities: Gross Motor- Aiden sits alone briefly, but usually uses his arms for support. No trunk rotation was noted, and he is not able to achieve a sitting position independently. In prone, he moves by belly crawling. Occasionally he will attempt to support himself on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. He raises his head when in prone on extended arms, but has weak neck extensors and a lack of…

perception is the sense of touch. It also has to do with the brain’s ability to perceive what is being touched. Touch is a complex system called the somatosensory system; the sense that someone receives touching is determined by amount of pressure, vibration, and temperature via receptors of the skin. The brain processes tactile perception within the somatosensory system in the cerebral cortex, specifically the parietal lobe. Information…

This study found that upon conflicts between the vestibular and proprioceptive inputs, the spatial updating was a weighted average of the two inputs.10 This means that both the vestibular system and the proprioceptive system both contribute in part to the body’s understanding of position such as during standing balance. Since vestibular input should be correct while the patient is standing upright, there is interest in understanding why proprioceptive input…

We use our hands for touching, grabbing, holding, feeling, manipulating, and caressing. Whether we acknowledge it or not, our hands are constantly making precise movements to allow for things like writing, art, or even things that give us pleasure like sports. Our hands are also capable of heavy labor, things such as lifting heavy objects, digging, or even to hold things. We even use our hands while talking to help further express our selves (Smith 2006). Over 25,000 people each year in the US…

focuses its research on understanding the function, organization, and mechanisms of assembly of the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord circuits that underlie somatosensation. My project specifically is examining contributions of the peripheral nervous system to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) using a mouse model of ASD. A recent study in our lab found a peripheral somatosensory neuron locus of dysfunction in two mouse models of ASD that lead to tactile hypersensitivity due to deficits in…

Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines neuropathic pain as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system. Neuropathic pain can either be central or peripheral. Central neuropathic pain is caused by a lesion or disease of the central somatosensory nervous system, whereas peripheral pain is caused by a lesion or disease of the peripheral somatosensory nervous system (IASP, 2012). The management of neuropathic pain is challenging because many patients have pain…

correspond to the sources of the labeled terminals. VGLUT1 is associated with terminals of auditory nerve fibers, whereas VGLUT2 is associated with glutamatergic terminals deriving from other sources that project to the cochlear nucleus (CN), including somatosensory and vestibular terminals. Previous studies in guinea pig and rat have shown that cochlear damage results in a decrease of VGLUT1-labeled puncta and an increase in VGLUT2-labeled puncta. This indicates cross-modal compensation that is…

The purpose of this paper is to summarize, assess, and synthesize eleven chapters across two primary texts listed as the required reading for the second week of POS 543. First, I’ll identify some of the central themes discussed across the readings. Second, I will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the various contributions to the literature on organizational theory relative to the major schools of thought. The required reading for week two offered a glimpse of the classic theories…