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| Lateral spinothalamic tract |
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| Anterior spinothalamic tract |
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| Light/crude touch, pressure |
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| Dorsal column pathways (fasciculi gracilis and cuneatus) |
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| Two-point discrimination, vibration, muscle/joint movement, and position of body parts |
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| Anterior and posterior spinocerebellar tracts |
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Definition
| Unconscious information from muscles, joints, and skin to cerebellum |
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| Pain, thermal, and tactile information pass to the superior colliculus of the midbrain through the spinotectal tract for the purpose of spinovisual reflexes |
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| Information from muscles, joints, and skin pass through this |
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| An indirect pathway for afferent information to cerebellum |
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| Concerned with voluntary, discrete, skilled movements, especially those of the distal parts of the limbs |
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| Facilitate or inhibit alpha and gamma motor neurons in spinal cord anterior gray column (facilitate or inhibit voluntary movements or reflex activity) |
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| Concerned with reflex postural movements in response to visual stimuli. Those fibers associated with sympathetic neurons in the lateral gray column are concerned with the pupillodilation reflex in response to darkness |
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| Acts on both alpha and gamma motor neurons in the spinal cord anterior gray column and facilitates the activity of flexor muscles and inhibits the extensor muscles |
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| Acts on motor neurons in spinal cord anterior gray column and facilitates activity of the extensor muscles and inhibits the flexors |
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| Descending autonomic fibers |
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Definition
| Concerned with control of visceral activity |
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