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Define Sensory System and its function.
Discuss about Receiving Sensory Impulses.
Discuss about Integrating Sensory Impulses.
Definition of Sensory
System
Receiving Sensory
Impulses:
sensory impulse is electrical signal propagated along the
nerve fibers (axons) enabling the nerve cells to
Cont
Position and vibratory sensations are produced by stimuli arising
from muscles, joints, and bones. These stimuli are conveyed,
uncrossed, all the way to the brain stem by the axon of the
primary neuron
Integrating Sensory
Impulses
The thalamus integrates all sensory impulses
except olfaction. It plays a role in the conscious
awareness of pain and the recognition of variation
in temperature and touch. The thalamus is
responsible for the sense of movement and
position as well as the ability to recognize the
size, shape, and quality of objects. Sensory
information is relayed from the thalamus to the
parietal lobe for interpretation.
Figure 11.1
Sensory
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General
somatic
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to
Touch
Pain
Vibration
Pressure
Temperature
Hearing
Balance
Vision
Smell
Visceral sensory
General visceral senses stretch, pain, temperature, nausea,
and hunger
Widely felt in digestive and urinary tracts, and reproductive
organs
Motor
General somatic motor signals contraction of
skeletal muscles
Under our voluntary control
Often called voluntary nervous system
Visceral motor
Regulates the contraction of smooth and cardiac
muscle
Makes up autonomic nervous system
Controls function of visceral organs
Often called involuntary nervous system
Autonomic nervous system
Neuron Classification
Functional:
Sensory (afferent) transmit impulses toward the CNS
Motor (efferent) carry impulses away from the CNS
Interneurons (association neurons) shuttle signals through
CNS pathways