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00:00 Yeah. Last lecture we discussed the system. Today, we're going to

00:06 fairly fast to the somatic sensory It's a fairly compact lecture somatosensory system

00:13 somatic sensation which are to stimulate for positioning of joints and muscles otherwise known

00:20 appropriate exception distention of bladder. So certain visceral mechanisms feeling sensations, temperature

00:31 limbs and brain receptors are unique for out of sensor system because they are

00:38 distributed throughout the body, neck, and face. Um and that's different

00:45 other sensory systems. So in other systems individual system all of the photoreceptors

00:54 in miraculous and the auditory system, of the hair cells, auditory receptor

01:02 were the cochlea here in Samana sensory . The south are located everywhere and

01:10 process the four senses of touch, , pain, appropriate reception.

01:21 Yeah. That information comes from the . So, skin is the largest

01:31 in your body. Yeah. And you don't have any serious medical

01:39 if we don't have most expensive organ our body in our bodies.

01:48 Because throughout your life you consume conditioners, soaks the utterance, makeup

02:02 . Everything that has to do with skin, the hairy skin or the

02:07 skin or the hair on the Hair removal and so on. And

02:15 you think about the fact that you so much money throughout your life on

02:22 organ. I've taken care of this . The organ is comprised of

02:28 dermis and below that is the hypodermic within that of course they have the

02:36 and the hair roots, the hair And as you can see you have

02:42 variety of these Samantha sensory nerve endings are innovating the dermis especially and these

02:53 my business core apostles, these are standings, these are free nerve

03:02 the hair follicle receptors that wrap around nerve endings around the hair follicle Pacini

03:10 core puzzles and immediately what you're seeing that some of these are smaller in

03:16 , some of them our larger And we'll come to that when we

03:22 about what information these different nerve endings processing. So all of this information

03:29 the skin, all of this is matter of sensor information from these vermin

03:33 is going to go and to the cord if it is located below the

03:43 . Mhm. And very early on we started discussing receptive field properties,

03:52 talked about visual system and we talked retina and in the retina we said

03:58 are millions of photoreceptors and millions of photoreceptors are clumped into the circular center

04:12 concentric lined arrangements. The process circular of light at the level of the

04:20 . We also talked about how there magma and parable outputs coming out of

04:24 retina and those are the ganglion And we said the magnets cells were

04:29 and therefore they had large introductory. they had large receptive fields and the

04:35 ones that parliament had smaller under the they're slower conducting but they also where

04:44 receptive fields. That means how many receptors were connecting eventually through that retinal

04:50 cells. If it has a very contradictory can receive more synapses than the

04:56 ones. So when we come to amount of sensory system now it's easy

05:03 you to understand what perceptive fuel properties . Because receptive fields are now fields

05:12 your body, on your skin, on the surface of your face and

05:17 body. And we have this question , why do we use fingertips for

05:25 reading? Why did we use primarily fingers most of our day on the

05:35 . Now sometimes three you're typing maybe . You're holding. These two are

05:41 in this position. So this is it is. But why is it

05:46 is it the gloves that are They have little fingertips from these two

05:50 . These two fingers on each hand the phone to touch the phone to

05:56 something or to grab the key. , so it is because at the

06:02 we have high density of the receptors these nerve endings. They innovate the

06:09 at high densities. They innovate other of the bodies at high densities as

06:16 . Yeah. And they have small field. So this is uh

06:24 That explains the following thing. You do a two point discrimination test which

06:30 that you can position to stimuli, say two. Promise identical pence.

06:40 the same Feel the same. I have one and put them next to

06:45 other and put them next to each your fingertips. And you clearly feel

06:49 it's to pants that are touching your and by the time you get to

06:55 arm, forearm Or shoulder you can longer tell that there's two hands touching

07:03 , we can no longer discriminate between two individual pain stimulus. Instead you

07:09 that as one unless you're looking at . But if you're not looking at

07:14 somebody else was doing the test is point discrimination test. The further where

07:19 move from the regions that have high , these nerve endings of the

07:26 the less you can discriminate which also you that the receptive fields are quite

07:33 in the areas that we use a that mean a lot when people touch

07:38 and interact with us. So more tissue is devoted to these regions to

07:47 regions as the fingertips as the mouth we removed the mouth a lot and

07:54 feel a lot of things and sensations our faces too. And this is

08:00 concept of homunculus. This caricature that saw in the previous slide will come

08:05 and discuss that in greater detail what surge. There are special neural mechanisms

08:11 with this high resolution discrimination that we're to understand also. But this is

08:19 of the answers why you would use and so you can record the activity

08:25 the nerve and you can describe essentially spatial distribution, different nerve endings.

08:33 you can see that the business core , which are small, also have

08:39 receptive fields and look where they are densely packed up in these three fingers

08:44 not as much In these two And then you have petroleum corp astle

08:51 petroleum corp puzzles that have these large fields because there are larger nerve endings

08:58 . Okay, so if you do two point discrimination tests and you start

09:07 index finger, you can see that can discern a matter of a few

09:14 . And if you're in the forearm if you're in the torso or in

09:19 caf, you can separate but to us to pants As far as

09:29 almost up to 50 cm apart mm your calf. And you will still

09:36 it as one stimulus instead of £2 you, you will not be able

09:41 discriminate How big of a distance 50 cm. It's about, I'm

09:47 , 15 mm. It's five. , so 50 is five cm 5

09:58 is a little bit less than So maybe this. Right? Something

10:03 that. About two interests. so this is this. This is

10:07 receptive field size and discrimination at the of the course or the calf and

10:13 forearm here and you can see that the lips. You also have quite

10:19 bit of sensitivity and discrimination around your . You have more of that sensitivity

10:25 toast too because you can move individual , You don't typically we don't use

10:30 much but you can actually appeal and with your toes. Uh Now these

10:39 nerve endings have what we call adaptation . They can adapt to the

10:48 So this is a Meisner score possible it's rapidly adapting and petroleum corp a

10:54 . So when there is stimulus you see this is the beginning of the

10:58 and you will record some action potentials you stimulate the Meisner score apostles.

11:04 the beginning, you can record the potentials from the dorsal root ganglia carrying

11:10 through the dorsal root ganglia. It's a sensory component, spinal cord,

11:15 nerves and pacino in corpus will do same thing as you touch or you

11:21 take to stimulate off, they'll produce potentials at the beginning of the stimuli

11:26 at the end of the stimulus. these are rapidly adapting my business to

11:31 possible, a small virginian is large they're rapidly adapting. And the best

11:38 that I can always think of. can you understand that is every day

11:45 you put clothing or every time you maybe a new item of clothing or

11:50 it's been in the laundry like jeans things that shrink or something like

11:55 you may feel a little bit of . You surely noticed when you put

11:59 on. If it's a xun and shoot or something and guess what?

12:06 it is continuing to cause a discomfort pain or it's chafing on your toes

12:12 something like that. You know, don't pay attention to that item

12:17 So you're, you're Samantha sensory nerve in the level of the skin has

12:22 stimulated. They have adopted. Now stimulus is continues and then you're going

12:27 take the clothing off and they'll be again because they'll feel that the clothing

12:31 we've removed and they'll do it rapidly the ones that are slow, Merkel's

12:37 and Ruffini endings, you will produce action potentials at the onset of the

12:42 mechanic stimulate pressure. Other things that talk about the human is like temperature

12:48 things like that and they'll continue kind a sustaining the signal. Some of

12:54 again animal these small and Rufina and will be large. So some of

12:59 are more faster tapping on, this slower doctor and there is a reason

13:05 we want some things to adapt fast there's a reason why we want to

13:10 and for the signal not to go if there is a stimulus such as

13:14 example, uncomfortable temperature, you don't to adopt too uncomfortable temperature and burn

13:22 hand or your finger or you freeze it. So you have these

13:28 timelines and sensitivities for the somatosensory nerve , The apparent information is carried everything

13:40 neck below is carried by the spinal that we already discussed and all the

13:45 cervical, thoracic lumbar uh psycho components the spinal nerves. Again you can

13:52 this nerve ending that is uh sensory projects that information through dorsal root ganglion

14:03 goes into the spinal cord. And information is carried by four groups of

14:10 . 1234, three of them are eliminated and one of them is in

14:17 ated The largest fibers are the fastest . Group one and they process appropriate

14:28 . They are appropriate sectors of skeletal to the positioning the skeletal muscle and

14:35 joint with respect to the rest of body. Um Mechanical receptors start to

14:45 of the skin. So positioning is thing and then touches the second

14:51 Pain and temperature is processed by slower . I'm sorry, slower and

15:00 The larger the fiber, the fastest conductance, The smaller the fiber,

15:04 slower the conductance. And then finally have very slow conductance and you have

15:10 leak of that conductance too tight for fibers that process temperature, pain and

15:18 in particular. Think about which Do you feel the most after the

15:27 bit here. First you slap then you feel pain ouch and then

15:41 he continues to h And it connects five minutes, 10 minutes to hours

15:48 . And you're itching it and you're to catch up, right? So

15:52 fibers. Now that example that I is dr house and he is uh

16:01 a character. I don't watch that match. I've seen maybe a few

16:05 but I heard an interview with the who plays Dr house and he's an

16:10 individual and he said that he had uh kind of a strange hobby when

16:17 was a child to put his hand a bucket full of ice water and

16:23 how long he can hold his hand the bucket of ice water. And

16:29 what I use. Always as dr example putting his hand in the bucket

16:34 ice cold water. The first thing going to bring his hands around a

16:39 of ice cold water. So his chapters are going to know this movement

16:44 skeletal muscle contraction. Then he's gonna the hand on the water and ice

16:52 his mechanic researchers are going to say fluid. Okay, eyes, different

16:58 here. Then he's gonna feel I think he's going to say,

17:05 this is really cold water. Now house holds his hand there for one

17:09 two minutes. He's going to start pain. And sometimes even members.

17:16 is how you can remember which fibers activated first by just recalling this little

17:22 that I made up or dr house to do this. But I just

17:25 up with respect to these fibers and makes sense. Again Certain things.

17:33 sensations. It's sensations. It's a of the reminder that you have a

17:41 . But you have something you need take care of baby And everything from

17:46 spinal cords down. Each spinal nerve spinal segment on each side has its

17:54 derma tone. So there's a cervical tones, there's thoracic, there's

17:59 there's shackled derma tones on the back in the back of the legs.

18:04 you also have Dermot tomes on your . And those are created by

18:12 So it's not from the neck down the trigeminal nerve. So you have

18:18 sensory and the motor component of the nerve. Remember it has three B

18:25 B two B. Three. We talk about what they are but the

18:33 . So not a sense of information processed through the trigeminal And everything below

18:39 neck. And you can see up here in the back of your head

18:43 is c. one c. 2 processed by the spinal cord and each

18:49 of the dorsal root ganglion is then one side of the body will have

18:53 own derma tone and essentially within this tone that's where all of the receptors

19:02 nerve endings are located that send their from this reason of the body to

19:08 particular one side 2, 1 spinal on one side or salute ganglia.

19:23 so we have these german towns that our bodies. And this is a

19:29 example. It is the shingles because is a natural way of exposing those

19:38 phones, shingles happened as a consequence Herpes Zoster virus. And early on

19:46 said that viruses can travel on terra and some of them can travel retrograde

19:54 herpes Zoster virus has the ability to both. And herpes, Zoster virus

20:01 chicken pops and chickenpox is being treated usually you have some discoloration on your

20:10 . Maybe some rashes often on your around the face area, it goes

20:17 . But the virus didn't go The virus actually sits dormant and it

20:24 Dorland in the dorsal root ganglia. then typically in the late 40s,

20:31 , 60s before coded, you would on Walgreens and CVS, you can

20:37 your shots for shingles, don't you ? So you can get a boost

20:44 sort of like immune booster to protect from the reappearance of disaster virus because

20:51 it does, if it reappears, does sound one single spinal nerve segment

20:58 one side of the body. So is a single derma tone here on

21:02 back and the bottom right here, is juan derma tone. So it

21:08 be probably this, this lumbar five tone that's illustrated here that's painted with

21:17 the virus that reappears. That virus causes itching pain and basically comes out

21:24 these nerve endings that we talked about they have different functions and they cause

21:28 of these things heat called pain And it's really not just a rash

21:36 oh it's a rash. It's really painful and you have to treat

21:42 So this virus goes one direction, there, Then there is an immune

21:48 compromised. There's something we don't know certain individual swollen depth having the reactivation

21:55 this virus, but there's something that in the virus travels the direction and

22:01 the Dermot nature's way of mapping the viruses would have not the derma tones

22:15 of this sonata sensor information from the cord enters into the dorsal root

22:25 We're already familiar with the dorsal column and the spinal cord. Although I

22:29 think I had a question on that the second exam, but we may

22:33 it in the third one. So is where most of the ascending

22:37 We talked about traveling up, ascending and carrying that information under the other

22:44 of the brain. In this case ascends into the dorsal column nuclei which

22:49 located in the Doha borgata. You already know how to read these shards

22:54 long cut to cut three and the for these cuts. This is madu

22:59 God. And then the fibers cross on the contra lateral side and from

23:07 crossover which is medial meniscus it projects the ventral posterior nucleus of the

23:14 So visual system had lateral gesticulate nucleus system had mediagenic nucleus amount of sensory

23:22 has eventually mysterion degrees. You recall this is a collection of these nuclei

23:29 are dedicated for processing different senses and information from there. And the column

23:35 that information gets sent into the primary cortex Also refer this area as

23:46 So how we had primary visual cortex V one primary auditory cortex. A

23:53 Prime Minister Matter Sensor Cortex. S . We talked about reflexive behaviors when

24:00 talked about the reflex arch at the of the spinal cord, but inevitably

24:06 you do reflexively gets sends up into conscious centers to perceive that information consciously

24:16 the reflects of behavior. This is triathlete. Remember where it crosses over

24:21 medulla oblon gata. You get to school or grad school or other advanced

24:27 of neuro anatomy courses. There might some questions about what happens if you

24:34 at this level of the spinal cord the level of medulla oblon gata.

24:38 you use loo sensation on the same or opposite side of the body?

24:42 these are all really good questions. of them may be on the M

24:47 . Um Sometimes they throw in a of these and and different systems.

24:56 now we've taken care of everything from down. I'm not really showing you

25:01 German towns were not really discussing the components of the trigeminal nerve but its

25:08 from the face. It's a lot it is in an eye movement and

25:13 in in mandibular components and ensuring mastication tubular components. So when you go

25:21 the dentist's office they inject the local the static lidocaine and they number one

25:30 of your mandibular component of your try nurse. So you don't feel

25:36 Uh huh. And so this is large makana receptors from phase that are

25:44 in through the sensory component of the nerve. It's coming in right here

25:50 this level here the level of palms number one level of pawns. You

25:56 a primary or principle sensor to a nucleus and it crosses over contra laterally

26:06 project into the ventriloquist unique was the and into the slightly different area dedicated

26:14 phase and the primary somatosensory cortex There's someone serious difference is here that

26:23 didn't see in other systems have a of information from the spinal cord and

26:29 the face. Now before we come to this digit example, this is

26:35 that homunculus looks like. This is here represents how much of the Somatosensory

26:45 area as one. It's dedicated to bargains and you can see the very

26:52 areas of the cortex are dedicated to and fingers. Very large areas are

26:57 to mouth lips, tongue genitals. . So there's certain parts of the

27:07 that are more important than others for somatosensory cortex. There's more space in

27:13 cortex dedicated to those parts of the importance of body parts. This Samata

27:20 map had a really little topic map point by point representation from Russian into

27:28 . We have a tonal topic map was the frequency map. We also

27:31 a spatial localization map which we didn't from. Of course we have this

27:37 topic map. There's a map of body in the form of this caricature

27:41 the primaries without offensive cortex. And certain features of this map. The

27:47 is not continuous in relation to the because last time I attract the genitals

27:52 not typically below the toast and the finger is not on top of the

27:59 . So it's discontinues projections the way are situated as long it's not scaled

28:08 human body. So it's a Again, certain parts deserve and use

28:14 space in the cortex as you can more space is dedicated to the face

28:19 to the entire body of humane. you look at how much cortex he

28:25 dedicated to face and tongue and how cortex is dedicated to him,

28:31 back legs and it's disproportionate with respect the science but it's proportionate with respect

28:40 the density and the nerve endings and distribution of these nerve endings in the

28:48 , more important body parts for some of sensation. Yes. So and

28:57 we look we'll come back to this . Mhm Again. But in rodents

29:06 we're going to look at is this which is ridiculous from the rats.

29:15 son cures brilliant talking killers. It's caricature of a mouse. Mouse lives

29:21 life than we do. That's very olfactory bulbs compared to the relative size

29:28 its rest of the brain. And be whisked around the smell things and

29:35 whisk around so they have the the whiskers on the whisker pad and

29:42 whisk around and this is how they they don't come and touch things.

29:47 don't do braille reading. We risk so large portions of their somatosensory cortex

29:54 dedicated to the whisker cod. And when you look at the somatosensory cortex

30:00 have this exaggeration of the calculus where large area is representing the brisa In

30:09 one and region as one. And we further zoom in what you will

30:16 these structures that we call barrels. are the barrels in the cortex For

30:24 barrel? There is 1, 3, 4 five photos of

30:32 Uh huh. 1, 345. are five rows of whiskers. Each

30:41 of the Darrell's represents a matter of information from a single whisker under the

30:51 . So if you touch this literacy , this hair follicle is the bristol

30:59 that will activate the cells and the cortex that are related. And are

31:07 in this barrel right here. Yeah, four minutes in the action

31:16 to what? Uh So we'll come to that actually. But that's a

31:28 question because rodents are not great visual , there are much better in fact

31:34 animals, so they have the factory map and they also have the somatosensory

31:42 . So they do not have very , they will develop into a domino's

31:51 that you would see and you would them high water animals such as cats

31:55 really good for studying market dominance Non human primates, but the rat

32:01 are dominated by Samantha sensor system. these barrels and this is a beautiful

32:09 for experimentation. So you can move single to brisa in this case it's

32:17 . Two, which means it's sitting row C. And it's number

32:21 And then you're going to get And barrel cortex in one single barrel

32:28 corresponds to the Activation of this two. Whisker. So you can

32:34 a lot of external manipulations, you move the whisker, you can cut

32:40 whisker, you can inhibit activity from whisker by injecting something and you can

32:46 how it affects activity in the And so this is a structure.

32:53 we're now coming to talk about brain , this is the structure. Structure

32:59 these barrels, its barrel represents a whisper on top of that structure,

33:06 is activity. So this is a experiment that demonstrates the following thing,

33:15 take the right c. two whiskered we were just talking about and you

33:20 it and then you image activity in brain and now you're really smart.

33:24 you know several ways for several things you can imagine the brain. So

33:31 can use voltage sensitive dye imaging and at the macroscopic and microscopic populations of

33:38 as they're being activated. An image , you can image oxygen fluctuations,

33:46 can image intrinsic optical signal changes. you're in a clinical environment, you

33:55 use Fmri or pet scan. So rodents, f. Mris are

34:00 There are some experiments but they're rare small animals and it's mostly experimental

34:08 Then you're familiar with both of sensitive The voltage sensitive dye. When you

34:13 c. two whisker now produces this map. This is the map of

34:19 c. two Whisker and this is 22 milliseconds, 30 milliseconds, 40

34:28 milliseconds. So you stimulated the whisker 14 milliseconds later. You clearly see

34:37 and the glow where it's read off C. Two barrel in the summer

34:42 a sense of cortex. And what a little bit later this activity or

34:51 brain map becomes brain wave because it spreading just like I was showing you

34:58 voltage sensitive damaging movie of waves of spreading through the brain. So now

35:04 have a brain map and then you the brain wave and you can see

35:09 a little bit later. You have of motor area and one so 14

35:17 , 22 milliseconds as the whisker get . Now the motor areas saying maybe

35:24 want to move it in a different . Just eight milliseconds later you have

35:28 responsible motor cortex. This is the of the sea to activation. And

35:33 you can see it doesn't remain It informs either parts of the brain

35:38 other areas of the brain including the cortex. You have a C.

35:44 whisker, that's a C. Two map. That's a C.

35:47 Whisker brainwave. And this is an . To whisker activation. And you

35:52 see that this is C. Two this is E two is in a

35:55 row one row apart. C D 2 would be easy to whisker

36:02 this is the E. two. brain nap and brainwave. And then

36:08 this experiment you can read the footnotes the figure legend but there's an injection

36:13 seeing Q. X. Do you seeing QX? We talked about

36:18 we talked about a P. N C. N. Q.

36:21 . And C. N. X. Is an amP kinase receptor

36:26 . You see how it's awesome to all of it. So what did

36:31 do? They injected the C. lacks right into was cassie too on

36:37 Wilbur's on little birthday and then they the same thing they stimulated Whiskers

36:45 Two and there's no response because it's activated so you block blue democratic transmission

36:56 here. It's the same would be same as lidocaine. So there's no

37:01 of pain, there's no perception that whisker is moving, This is trigeminal

37:07 , this processing that information actually was very clearly in the previous life.

37:12 there's not much going on. You E two which is just one row

37:18 to remember. C. To 00 E. Two. And you

37:23 get this nice normal control map of too. So you can see now

37:31 external manipulation just blocking the activity. change the map in the cortex and

37:39 change the brain waves of attacks. saw that an example of critical period

37:45 development when the rodents were deprived of information in a long I. And

37:52 I became irrelevant to the cortex The cortex after six days was no

37:58 responding to the life coming into the that was deprived during this critical

38:06 So now you see what's happening. change the activity peripherally externally to stimulate

38:14 future that I live. You block whisker you cut the whisker off,

38:19 no activity there. That area becomes to the cortex the cortex actually has

38:26 reorganize and do something different. So is whiskers. And in humans as

38:37 talked a lot of, some out sensor areas dedicated to digits and so

38:43 come back to your question about ocular college you have digit dominance columns.

38:52 not that it's left, right digit right. But each digit you can

38:57 we'll have this slowly and rapidly adapting groups. They're taking information from each

39:04 these digits especially digit one digit two three four digit five. So the

39:13 they have this again the same columnar but now the column instead of dedicated

39:19 one i it's dedicated to one Okay so primaries amount of sensory cortex

39:27 dense input from ventral posterior nucleus of thalamus and other Islamic nuclear. It

39:36 sends the projections back neurons. If stimulate or you record from neurons in

39:45 somatosensory cortex they're responsive Samata sensor So if you plug an electrode remember

39:52 did that with visual system is that put in the occipital lobe. Put

39:57 field of view you find area to that neuron is responsive. The menu

40:05 stimulus. So here if you stimulate finger or that a finger one the

40:12 over that the reverse a. You this amount of sensor stimulus. So

40:16 feel the sensations. If you have In this amount of sense of

40:24 S one you impair somatic sensations so do not perceive somatic sensations or you

40:33 feel constant pain. If you electrically it's the night of sensory cortex you

40:45 this matter sensor experienced. So if just put an electrode and stimulate the

40:53 in S1 area it would feel like is touching my right hand, my

40:59 finger on my right hand, okay touching my left and my phone.

41:09 there's also situations where the limb may lost but the pain of that limb

41:19 called phantom London phantom limb syndrome or pain is associated with that phantom

41:27 And what happens to our cortical finger and can they change? So if

41:36 look in the slide there is different here, there's an area, this

41:40 a monkey, you have an area five for trunk armrest, there's a

41:47 area right here in this amount of cortex. And so you have 12345

41:54 that are dedicated to each digit. you have These digits here. OK

42:03 . And you have the Cortex This is the area of the cortex

42:08 is dedicated to each one of these . And then I always tell the

42:14 when I was in graduate school at . S. U. Medical,

42:17 new Orleans, we had monkeys in animal room. One of them used

42:22 flip everybody off in the middle finger you just have to like show you

42:26 by the door and he or she be like immediate Atlanta lipping off.

42:31 think it was a very smart animal caught on that can get a lot

42:36 attention doing that from visitors and people by and people laughing, you

42:43 But in any case. So this , this monkey lost the middle

42:48 And uh what happens if you have injury and you have a loss middle

42:56 , You actually have reorganization of the map. In this case it's a

43:02 removal of the third finger but it be just accident. The loss of

43:06 third finger chopped off finger work, related, accident, crushed and so

43:12 . Broken, broken foot, It's not just with fingers. What

43:17 to the cortex? The cortex reorganizes three area. The cortex is no

43:23 responding to digit. That is that no longer there. So now the

43:29 to indigent four areas expand critically. plasticity. So there's a certain degree

43:36 reorganization. And the cortex why? you injured what? The finger?

43:46 finger is injured cortical salsa fine. is not an injured into the amount

43:52 sense of cortex is an injured to nerve is injured. Those cells are

43:58 and they're like, hey who's talking us? The middle finger is not

44:03 to us anymore. So they okay, we'll take the information from

44:06 two surrounding fingers From two and 4 two and 4 in the way become

44:16 sensitive Because the larger cortical area is dedicated to two and 4. So

44:23 cortex is reorganizing and is compensating to happened in the periphery and we're not

44:29 to the middle finger is gone. going to take information. Two and

44:32 will still make this hand as important we can. And those two fingers

44:37 the missing one, we're going to more important now. But here's an

44:44 of our everyday lives Where Digits two 3 just get continuous stimulus in this

44:52 monkeys sitting there and there's a wheel spinning and it's constantly touching these

44:59 And these two digits digit tomb and three. Their maps also expand.

45:06 us. So the surrounding visit maps . They don't disappear because the fingers

45:13 still there but they shrank. They and the shrink. So Welcome to

45:22 world of two digits. And when told you early on that was the

45:31 for phone call 30 years ago in sonata sensor cortex. How did we

45:38 the phone? What did we How did we use digits 30 years

45:46 . People were digits meaning fingers. are mostly writing taking notes. So

45:54 goes with the most important ones But then the switch came into typing

46:03 you can think of um kind of redistribution over all of the fingers and

46:12 how older people had a really difficult And stuck to one finger typing.

46:19 many do you know like I know older professor said Pink. Pink Pink

46:24 is always one finger. They never because the older you are the brains

46:32 less plastic. So the less capability have for the cortical structures to reorganize

46:40 you have to put a lot more and mental effort and try to push

46:46 process which is finite process of how plasticity there is, How much it

46:51 reorganize based on the external stimulus. how many fingers do we use?

47:00 . These are the fingers with dominating brains and our primaries. And I

47:07 answered Cortez is so I didn't see I think she had a question

47:14 Yeah. Start and food. So was individual system. It was during

47:25 critical period of development of course and really affecting the retina. But here

47:31 a lot more on the periphery and you have some of the rebuilding of

47:38 of the nerves in the periphery you have. So if you have damage

47:42 the prefer has some rebuilding of the and the perfect sometimes this reorganization doesn't

47:51 . And guess what do you have if you lost a hand and you

47:55 the pain on that hand 23 months that area is still there. It

48:03 been organized. You still paying for hand, You still feel pain for

48:08 hand. So you feel phantom pain we'll talk about phantom limb syndrome in

48:13 in the next lecture as we what's really cool video about that. So

48:18 finite levels of reorganization. There's less that organization and adults in adult friends

48:26 as I was telling an example. the brains are very plastic early on

48:34 things that you learn early on and skills and sports skills and things like

48:39 that they stick with you. And unusual for people in their 70s to

48:44 up some kind of a new skill they haven't done before. Not saying

48:48 doesn't happen. It should. So don't know that completely answers your

48:53 And then you know, you also to think about how people lose a

48:59 sense. So now just a hand they lose sight. He was

49:06 What is the organization of the brand and there is certainly organization of the

49:12 because again the injury might be in periphery, to the hair cells or

49:17 the to the retina. So there some reorganization. So the senses do

49:22 become more sensitive? Yeah. So see it. It also kind

49:28 it depends when that happened. when, when it's an older

49:33 The circuits are rigid. The plasticity low. You may not have a

49:40 of the hearing if you lost But if that happened then it happened

49:46 and earlier during the development. It . You'll have really sharp hearing and

49:52 those parts of the brain that a space in the brain that should have

49:56 dedicated to site now potentially are concerned processing here and in some weird way

50:05 we don't know how that happens. there's interesting things and connections that happen

50:08 form in the brain during this I think he had a question before

50:13 uh possible for I'm gonna take a . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

50:22 that's exactly what I was touching upon it kind of depends on the level

50:27 the injury level of the injury. course in the periphery we're talking about

50:31 if you injure the cortex during early that also can happen, reorganization can

50:41 . So for example, my nephew a stroke And meningitis at three weeks

50:50 age and he had a whole, looked at his MRI and cat

50:57 he had a whole Broca's area surrounding area extensive damaged black whole year.

51:12 they thought that he wasn't going to able to speak on this time the

51:18 because it was the rupture of the vessel. And the stroke was in

51:23 language area side of the brain. he is trilingual uh going into university

51:38 they said well he's not going to an orator, okay. He's not

51:41 orator. So he's trilingual speaks Norwegian and some third think german excellent.

51:52 um And that happened, he was weeks of age. If that happened

51:57 him when he was 13, probably would have lost the ability to

52:05 But the earlier the damage happens either terrific or in the central areas no

52:12 . The ability of the brain. more plasticity of the brain has to

52:18 itself to adopt to that loss. . And some very strange things

52:24 I'll maybe bring it up next So there are strange things happen after

52:30 sometimes. Um, one of my books is uh Almost Music Ophelia.

52:41 talk about it next next Western. I'll bring an ear. But uh

52:47 over sacks is the author and he about how some people may have injuries

52:53 a lightning bolt hit them and they obsessed about music and they just are

53:01 obsessed about music. I can't live it. They have to hear

53:05 They have to go to live concerts the time. They know everything by

53:08 , all of a sudden music. never had that before. So things

53:13 , things like that happened. There's next lecture will discuss synesthesia where certain

53:20 of the brain instead of perceiving the is perceiving of color. And so

53:26 somebody plays music, they see, it's a painting that has 30 colors

53:30 they can just reproduce it very easily about it as cowards. So we'll

53:36 upon that. Also in the next , a core collapse. Like you

53:45 when whenever that entry fields will be or would it just stays like you

53:50 feel a, so if you don't it is because there's no recovery in

53:59 peripheral, like peripheral neuropathy or numbness your finger. It's for multiple

54:06 Could be injured and high performing neuropathy to diet data, diabetes,

54:11 profound neuropathy because there's not enough supply nutrients and blood flow in the

54:18 So if it's a finger, it's the periphery. If it's not coming

54:23 , it's just sometimes it doesn't. mean, it's like, Yeah.

54:30 then they went away. But it's a reset or stay is government.

54:37 let's let's hope it does. But rare that you lose a finger and

54:41 you gain it back. You I mean, you can shoot your

54:44 , I guess. Yeah. And then we step back after the

54:54 of the way or when you sound , you know, if you

55:00 the cortex should adjust to actually. so you'll see that even in some

55:05 severe traumatic cases, you can fool cortex into reorganizing itself. Uh by

55:13 mirror preparations and things like that is is really, really cool. Very

55:17 questions actually. So, you'll have of these answers in the next

55:21 Next lecture will be a lot of . We're going to talk about ted

55:25 by there are Yeah, you're from Chandran dr Ramachandran, a neurologist and

55:33 symptoms. So next lecture is going be really cool. And we're gonna

55:37 exam questions in the three symptoms and different the organization of the brain can

55:43 to the symptoms or different fibers connecting different parts of the brain can cause

55:49 receiving. Music is colors, numbers colors, colors as numbers. And

55:57 , so. Okay, that's it today. It's a shorter, compact

56:02 . I appreciate you guys being Have a great afternoon Aleppo the lectures

56:09 and I'll see you all in class thursday or on zoom. And you

56:16 learn about your quiz next week, is your second quiz. Okay.

56:21 you guys. Oh, mm

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