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    and whether any areas of the hand itself are painful to touch. I shall make sure the recipient is comfortable and if all is well I shall proceed‚ starting with the right hand I will work each area for 30 seconds (longer if a reflex requires it). First‚ the pituitary gland reflex which is located in the centre of the fleshy thumb pad. With the palm facing up I will use medium pressure and make small circular movements with my thumb bent at the knuckle using the outer edge of my

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    pattern of your results Conclusion: Yes we actually had a pattern in our results. Our graph was going down so our graph states the exposure to caffeine does affect your reflex obviously because our graph was going down. When the graph went down it showed that our reflex became much slower. When we tested our reflex before eating chocolate it was faster than when we ate chocolate.

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    kicks up on its own. This happens because when the doctor hits your kneecap‚ the tendon under it gets stretched‚ which in turn will send a signal to an awaiting motor neuron so it can command the muscle to contract. Let’s take for example the reflex arc. A reflex is the involuntary movement of the body in response to a stimulus such as pain. The nerve impulses move so quickly that the person being affect doesn’t think about it‚ he just does it. Skin has a lot of sensory receptors‚ and when they are

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    Ankle-Jerk Reflex Foot Twitched Foot Twitched Biceps Jerk Did not detect Did not detect Triceps Jerk Did not detect Did not detect Pupillary Pupils did not change Pupils did not change Babinski Toe flexed Toe flexed Uvular Gagged Gagged Reaction Time 30cm/5cm/10cm 30cm/20cm/15cm Purpose: The purpose of this lab is to show reflexes and how the nervous system arcs and nerve impulses work in order to test out a certain reflex. Hypothesis: The reflex testings’ will

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    tract. 5) Damage to this nerve would cause difficulty in speech and swallowing‚ but no effect on visceral organs. 6) Damage to this nerve would keep the eye from rotating inferolaterally. Using the Figure‚ identify the following components of the reflex arc: 7) Integration center. 8) Sensory neuron. 9) Effector. 10) Motor neuron. 11) Receptor. Match the following: A) Abducens B) Vestibulocochlear C) Olfactory D) Vagus E) Accessory 12) Formed by the union of a cranial and a spinal root

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    Martini: Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology 9th Edition Chapter 13 MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) The spinal cord is part of the A) peripheral nervous system. B) somatic nervous system. C) central nervous system. D) autonomic nervous system. E) afferent nervous system. Answer: C 2) The ________ is a strand of fibrous tissue that provides

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    Pupillary light reflex protects the internal parts of the eye that are can be damaged with intense light. Constricting allow less light to penetrate the eyes. No‚ the mean reaction times varied between all of the conditions set. Our results showed distraction with the

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    see some of the prewired reflex’s that prove a human baby has a high probability to survive. Human babies come prewired into this world with a suckling reflex. If you are to ask a mother she will verify this fact. If anything lightly touches a babies face they have a prewired natural response to shift their heads and start suckling.. . It’s a reflex that is necessary to their survival‚ so there isn’t a big surprise that babies are born with this instinct. (Luo‚ 2010). It is believed that babies

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    not. 1. Using the information discussed in the text as well as the provided supplemental information posted to blackboard answer the questions below for two observed reflexes or voluntary movements. You can work with the infant to produce the reflex if needed. 1. Walking/ Stepping- makes step like

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    jumping into a hot bath or cold lake. After a short time‚ the body reduces the amount of information arriving at the cerebral cortex. Most sensory information is routed towards the spinal cord and triggers involuntary reflexes such as withdrawal reflex e.g. removing the hand from a hot stove. We can

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