ANATOMY 2 LAB 1 – RECEPTORS Questions: 1. How is the distance between receptors related to sensitivity of a stimulus? * The greater the distance between receptors and stimulus the lesser sensitive are the stimulus. The smaller area‚ the more sensitive. 2. What does the two-point discrimination test measure? * It measures the smallest distance at which two points of contact can be felt or measures areas that are more sensitive and has more motor interactions. 3. What areas of
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Effects of Decerebration on Toad In Accordance to its Responses to Different Stimuli1 September _ 2013 ABSTRACT The brain is the most important part of an organism’s body. It is the one that receives all information from different stimuli and controls the movement of body parts. But for sudden stimuli that needs a quick response‚ spinal cord reflexes happened. The effect of decerebration on a toad (Bufo marinus) will cause its inability to move‚ but it still responded
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Central Nervous System: The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord. The brain controls bodily functions. The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain in humans. The cerebrum is the last place that information travels through in the brain. The spinal cord is the part of the body that communicates between the brain and the nerves that connect to the spinal cord. The spinal cord is commonly known as a pathway from the brain to the body. Peripheral Nervous System: The peripheral
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on behavior. There are 2 neurons afferent neurons these carry messages to the central nervous system. Efferent neurons carry messages from the central nervous system. Neurons communicate through voltage changes. This can sometimes lead to quick action reaction sequence of voltage alterations. An example would be when you touch something hot and you pull your hand away immediately. One cell changes its voltage and the next cell detects this‚ and it does the same thing‚ and this continues on to each
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pore‚ in turn interacting with the gustatory hair. Once it is stimulated‚ the message then travels down your glossopharyngeal cranial nerve in order for you to interpret the taste. These neural impulses are transmitted through neurons and membrane potentials. Your insula then uses the gustatory cortex to interpret the sensory information from your tastebuds and you are able to determine that the burger you are eating is‚ in fact‚ extremely good. Your sense of balance may be impacted as the slope of
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The brain has a specialized vasculature that extends from the surface to deep within the brain tissue‚ reaching all regions in order to meet the brain’s high metabolic demands. Exposures to toxic compounds entering the blood have the potential to access this vasculature leaving the brain susceptible to possible neurotoxicity. Currently‚ there are over 200 known chemicals that have been correlated with neurotoxicity. A protective mechanism called the blood brain barrier (BBB) was first discovered
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Speed of the Human Neural Impulse Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a German scientist. In 1850‚ he measured the neural impulse in frogs. By strapping down the frogs and putting electrical voltage into their legs‚ Helmholtz measured the time it took for the frogs’ leg to twitch. Helmholtz used a galvanometer to measure the neural impulse. He found that the neural impulse in frogs was 83-90 ft/s. Afterwards‚ Helmholtz went on to test the neural impulse in humans. He put a low grade electrical voltage to humans’
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are affected all at once. What happen when Jill got scared? These are the side effects that are produced by sympathetic nervous system. 1. Increase heart rate‚ means increases oxygen and nutrition that reach the brain and muscles preparing them for action. 2. Pupils of the eyes are dilated because the sympathetic nervous system is open or activated when people are
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kicking. This would take longer than automatically kicking with the involuntary activation. In the body an impulse nerve signal had to be sent to the object reacting in this case kicking your leg. 2. How does your reaction time to the voluntary action of your quadriceps compare with your reaction time to the simple reaction task in Project 2.2.3? The task in this lab involved hearing a sound and reacting with your foot. The task in Project 2.2.3 involved seeing a signal and reacting with your finger
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"When a person glimpses the face of a famous actor‚ sniffs a favourite food or hears the voice of a friend‚ recognition is instant. Within a fraction of a second after the eyes‚ nose‚ ears‚ tongue or skin is stimulated‚ one knows the object is familiar and whether it is desirable or dangerous. How does such recognition‚ which psychologists call preattentive perception‚ happen so accurately and quickly‚ even when the stimuli are complex and the context in which they arise varies? Much is known about
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