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00:00 this is this is Elektra, 22 neuroscience, and we continuing talking about

00:05 auditory system. And so we discussed anatomy of the inner, the middle

00:11 the external air, the external ears a pen and the air canal or

00:17 auditorium. Mediators are located in the of years, where you have the

00:21 drum, the auditory obstacles that are the oval window and in the inner

00:26 you have, of course, the of the cochlea, which is a

00:30 of the vestibular cochlea apparatus, and outputs from the cochlear will produce the

00:35 portion of this tubular cochlear cranial Eight. Aziz. We discuss the

00:42 that sound vibrations, the movement of air molecules and these waves. They're

00:47 to come into the external auditory mediators then is going to vibrate the ear

00:52 . The ear drum is connected to three obstacles. The values increase in

00:57 peas and with increased torque and connectivity these also calls the drum movement,

01:04 vibrations could be exaggerated, even to move the oval window that is

01:10 onto the cochlea in a year. you were to take the cochlea shown

01:17 all looks like a snail. It's the size of a pea. And

01:22 you were thio on coil the cochlea would see a certain structure. You

01:30 see the Scalia, the stimuli on scholar, the stimulant off Scallon Media

01:35 will contain the organ of Corti, hearing of Perata's and the Scalia timpani

01:41 the bottom which will contain the round . Now the three chambers have filled

01:47 fluid, and the middle chamber will the hair cells, which are the

01:52 receptors. And they will trans the mechanical movement of the fluid and

01:58 pictorial number into which they're connected into electrochemical signals. Eso you have here

02:06 base basically off the cochlea and all all the way to the hillock,

02:10 tree MMA and the apex. You see all three of these. Flu

02:14 filled chambers. If you look at fluid that is actually contained in these

02:21 , the stimuli and the timpani they Paralympic Paralympic is very similar.

02:28 What we know is our cerebrospinal which is typically low and and potassium

02:37 the outside of the cells and high sodium. So remember that super spinal

02:43 is high and sodium on the sodium chloride and then the inside.

02:50 is high in potassium, but on outside of Sloan potassium, the seven

02:53 Mueller typical in CSF extra cellular, see potassium, about $3.5 million

03:02 Enderlin, however, has very high concentrations, in fact, and the

03:08 has 150 million Mueller. Concentration of and low sodium transportation. Low sodium

03:20 of one million Moloch on dso This this Grady In this, uh,

03:27 in off high potassium, there's established active transport the three of us secularist

03:36 the filial cells that are producing a , and and transporting a lot of

03:41 potassium into the end, a And so the signaling, an activation

03:46 the hair sauce is going to be through. Potassium in flex is supposed

03:51 look classical, we've learned, and sodium regulation of sodium influx, even

03:56 the level of the photo receptors where regulating the influx of sodium moving on

04:04 , just like in written. And you recall, we talked about retina

04:08 map the retina topic map. We Thio point by point representation. There

04:14 a point in the visual field that is represented by receptive fields in the

04:21 . That point is represented in the funicular nucleus of the columnist on that

04:26 is represented all the way to the visual cortex. In cochlear, you

04:31 a tono topic map. In this , it's the map that basically has

04:38 tones on it. The base off cochlea and the hair cells that are

04:46 at the base of the cochlear are sensitive and processing high frequency sounds.

04:52 as you move toward that, apex, this basilar membrane. As

04:59 can see, this basilar membrane itself , and it becomes mawr floppy soon

05:06 speak. And as it changes its shape, the cells that air hair

05:13 that are connected to the territorial to bazaar learned the tutorial membranes well into

05:18 bezel number in particular will be processing frequency sounds. And so the analogy

05:26 I'd like to give and unfortunately, don't have a good demonstration. But

05:32 this may were the analogy that I'd to give is a gymnasts ribbon when

05:38 move something really fast this Imagine the to my hand is the dazzle,

05:46 membrane of processes, high frequencies, you can see that the higher frequency

05:52 move the fastest moves. Look what when the membrane becomes looser. It's

05:59 necessarily the exact structure toward this other . What's happening now? Now you

06:05 see processing a very fast vibrations by cloth, very close to the hand

06:11 much slower fluttering toward what would be apex or the helicopter Prima off the

06:20 . Okay, so imagine this as . Use an example of gymnasts ribbon

06:26 journalists are moving the rivers that you're really fast, very close Thio where

06:32 hand is holding the river. And what happens that where the end of

06:37 ribbons is flowing very slow, making wide waves. Okay, so this

06:43 basically a frequency and coding, and cells along different extend from the base

06:49 the cochlea to the apex will be and most being be most responsive.

06:58 certain frequencies of sound. So the of sound let's talk about it.

07:05 there you have the stay bees that's the oval window. So these little

07:11 that are moving the oval window. movement of that oval window is moving

07:16 fluid filled chamber and the moving the , and that movement of the fluid

07:22 into the movement after dazzler membrane. as the fluid moves, the Basel

07:30 membrane displaces. So what you have the organ of Corti or the the

07:38 organ is you have two very important . You have the tech Torrey Aled

07:44 or the roof Okay, the tech Allnut brain and the textile or

07:50 Now rain is connected to the Off the hair cells, you have

07:58 rows of outer hair cells and one off inner hair cells that are located

08:06 over the inside, uh, middle . So as you can see when

08:13 a movement of the fluid, this membrane on which the organ, of

08:19 he's sitting and you have the supporting that are supporting that sitting here in

08:23 supporting the hair cells, then the . The basilar membrane moves, and

08:30 happens is because the dictatorial membrane is to the silly on the hair

08:35 It's just sicilia into the direction. left to right, it bends the

08:41 hair follicles of the South little cilia one direction. When it moves back

08:47 Thio, it's in simulated position. can see again, the cilia has

08:52 , and when the basilar membrane moves , the cilia, instead of moving

08:58 left to right, is bend from to left. This angle. So

09:05 each movement, with each vibration off oval window and the movement off the

09:13 , what happens is you have a of the bezel on membrane, which

09:18 displaces the hair cells going up one , going down another direction, going

09:25 one direction, going down another And this is essentially what happens when

09:32 are encoding the receptor potential. If bend the displays, you bend and

09:38 sicilia some 10 nanometers to the You change the member and potential,

09:45 is the receptor potential. These air receptor cells that will get Mawr D

09:50 . Bending this direction 10 nanometers. Even mawr means it's even bigger shift

09:58 shift, so you have even greater polarization. Now when you bend back

10:05 place the basilar membrane back to its , you don't have any change in

10:11 potential And if you displace the silly the opposite direction, you actually get

10:17 negative. I'm proposal arising changing So the movement of the silly and

10:25 to left represents right Deep polarization left polarization right. Deep polarization left hyper

10:32 . So you have the sign you Sinus oId waves coming in those

10:38 Our remaining sign you saw it in fluid and the sound pressure that is

10:43 oId eventually gets converted into a hair receptor potential that a Sinus oId so

10:51 deep polarized membrane up the hyper polarized down deep, polarized, hyper

10:56 So this is the encoding of the that happens, and what happens is

11:02 conversion of the mechanical movement off the mechanical movement off the bones. Mechanical

11:08 off the, uh, membrane and movement of the fluid is now converted

11:15 changes in the electrical potential and the potential of these hair cells. So

11:24 is another illustration that shows you three of hair cells, and you can

11:31 that it's silly of protruding here. , and you can see that these

11:36 three rows of outer hair cells and can see that the cilia is embedded

11:40 on the territorial membrane. This is Micrografx. Picture the same as your

11:46 by the cartoon. Here you have pictorial membrane and you have the stereo

11:51 projections from the hair cells that are . So in this number rains every

11:56 the number and moves, the cilia to move with it. Uh,

12:02 if you have damage to hair the damaged typically happens Cicilia. And

12:07 the cilia becomes detached from the dictatorial or it's not properly attached anymore,

12:14 there's some damage to hairstyles and you have hearing problems, no notice.

12:22 thing is that you have these three of outer hair cells. Then you

12:28 the Axiron. Is that the the that are coming to these outer hair

12:36 ? And you can see in this even hear that there's a lot more

12:41 that's coming from the from the inner salts rather than the outer hair

12:47 So we will discuss why that is , and the fact is that most

12:52 the information that we get into the pathways comes from the inner hair

12:57 But these three rows of outer hair allow us to amplify that information that

13:04 being encoded by the inner hair cell allowed Thio amplify the movement of the

13:09 . Auriol membrane is well, So does this work These? The

13:15 A gated transient receptor potential? A channels. That's what trip stands for

13:22 transient receptor potential channels and these channels promotable to potassium. These channels are

13:32 along all of the cilia and these channels. Air also connected through tip

13:39 . So if you bend the serious into this direction into the right

13:44 you open one channel, and as bend the cilia, it pulls on

13:51 tippling, and as it pulls on stippling, it opens up more potassium

13:55 , um, or potassium comes in it opens up Maura adjacent stereo

14:00 potassium channels or more. Potassium is in, and as potash in comes

14:05 from the ambulance, remember that we that this is unlike the regulation of

14:12 , and this is unlike the typical fluid. So we have high Miller

14:18 , concentrations of potassium and the Elim on potassium enters into the hair

14:24 and deep polarizes. Um this deep in the hair cells opens voltage,

14:30 calcium channels and influx of calcium. , of course, is necessary

14:36 in addition to deep polarization in calcium release the neurotransmitters from these hair cells

14:45 the spiral ganglion Nure i'ts. so again, this is the connection

14:55 is coming into okay, Don't There's no axon that's coming out off

15:00 hair cells. It's the connections that coming from spiral spiral ganglion cells and

15:08 accents that they have connected to these cells. Uh, so in a

15:14 , this is like a peripheral Axiron goes and gets connected to the outer

15:19 inner hair sauce. These air the so the spiral ganglion cells and these

15:24 the central accents that well done project the auditory processing pathways. Now,

15:32 thing to notice is if you bend stereo, Sylvia, one direction you

15:37 influx of potassium. You have deep calcium, and you have more neurotransmitter

15:42 . But if you move this Sarah in the opposite direction, you cut

15:47 the influx of potassium and deep I'm cut off. Yeah,

15:51 and therefore you hyper polarized the cells and you cut off the neurotransmitter release

15:58 swell. So outreach aerosols outer hair . Also special because they have these

16:09 proteins, these motor proteins that are in the actual plasma membrane off the

16:18 hair cells. And by that this this this motor proteins. They're

16:24 of like springs. They can They can get, get smaller and

16:32 , and they can expand these air motor proteins. And if you have

16:38 movement in the other direction and depending the silly and the other direction,

16:44 have the compression of these motor And so, by expanding and compressing

16:50 motor proteins without her hair cells, is the amplifying the movement of the

16:57 the membrane with respect to the tech alone membrane. This is when it's

17:03 normal. Respond with cochlear amplifier, then you can actually dampen the activity

17:09 you can see that you can dampen . And outer hair cells would be

17:13 for this amplification through the very specialized motor protein structures here, essentially making

17:21 that the roof really moves stronger so the inner hair cells from which most

17:26 information is communicated to the central pathways really passing that information on properly and

17:34 it thio the highest fidelity. So our spiral ganglion cell. And now

17:41 we're gonna do is we're gonna apply knowledge of anatomy. And the way

17:45 you read this diagram here on the is you look at the level of

17:51 each cut is made here on the brain structure. So this first cut

17:57 here made a to the level of ventral cochlear nucleus. Okay, in

18:05 olive right here, number one number is made at mid brain, where

18:11 have the inferior curriculums that's involved in information processing. Number three cut here

18:20 the cross section or coronal section through brain that exposes the auditory topless coming

18:30 the follow most of them to the cortex. So let's walk through this

18:36 pathway, and it's a little Remember, it was a retina thalamus

18:42 . This is different. This is KLIA, auditory nerve fibers, the

18:48 , Coakley and our fibers from spiral cells, not from retina Jinich.

18:55 , DJ Nicholas houses a spiral ganglion . It's from spiral ganglion cells projecting

19:04 the ventral cochlear nucleus located here and crossing over into the superior olive.

19:15 crossing it over hear some sounds remains one side another, another pathway here

19:23 over at the level of the Stop from their projections from the superior

19:32 through the pathway that's called lateral meniscus in to the inferior curricula.

19:40 Inferior curricula asses a part of corporate Gemini The four body uh um nuclei

19:51 empirical IQ. Youlus is concerned with information processing. You may recall that

19:58 we talked about the visual information we talked about the superior curricula so

20:04 curricula superior. Inferior calculus is part the corporate Quadra Gemini. But for

20:08 auditor information processing information goes through and curricula us before guests to the medial

20:16 Hewlett nucleus, M G in or Hewlett nucleus is medial thio. The

20:24 judicial in nucleus was processes the visual and then from the media. Logical

20:30 nucleus, which processes the auditor The primary the pathways goes into the

20:38 auditory cortex, located in the temporal , so this is quite different than

20:46 more complex here and goes through brain vision didn't go through brain stem vision

20:54 . I thala mus cortex here we're about here. Brainstem, midbrain,

21:02 and then cortex. Important things to is inferior. Caligula stalks to superior

21:10 . Us. Do you remember the of superior Caligula? See, category

21:16 , fast eye movements. So if heard something you'd wanna almost reflexively there

21:22 a loud sound that is processed by Oculus at the level of the brain

21:28 . This is your reflex. This the movement of the ice that is

21:35 . Okay, It happens. At level of the brain cell is visual

21:38 that goes into brainstem to superior Auditorium put that goes in fear

21:42 They both talk to each other. is not you processing. Listening to

21:48 Art Symphony's and looking at the paintings , uh, famous artists. It's

22:03 , voluntary listening and moving your psychotic eye movements and some basic rudimentary

22:09 information processing brain sim neuron sends feedback the outer hair salts. Whoa,

22:20 stem neuron sends feedback to the outer cells. Wow. So you have

22:31 cortex, remember? We have the cortical from cortex to Solomon's. You

22:36 auditory cortex that talks Thio, MGM talks to empirical Oculus and the brain

22:47 . Okay, brain stem communicates back the outer hair cells. We didn't

22:55 that individual system. There was nothing was communicating information doctored the photo

23:04 Once the information exited out of the , there was no input going back

23:09 the retina to contact the photo And in this case, you have

23:15 hair cells that you have a feedback . So you get sent back from

23:20 to outer hair cells. So at level of the brain stem, you

23:25 some sort of a rudimentary regulation off sensory input, potentially gating, potentially

23:33 the game off the sound, amplifying or dampening the sound outside at the

23:42 again at the cochlear nucleus. these initial projections the sounds are either

23:51 coming just from one eye. But all the other nuclei Sapir,

23:56 olive and then fear curricula us. sound is by aural. So the

24:01 and superior olives and inferior calculus uh, the information there's crossed over

24:07 get information is coming from both So this is really interesting. You

24:16 , we talked about the somatic sensory mean, we talked about the visual

24:20 , a sort of a canonical central information processing system for vision and anatomy

24:30 the projections on the connectivity of that . And you can see that there

24:36 definitely big similarities. But the projections are also quite different. Let's discuss

24:44 tonal topic maps a little bit. we already talked about that at the

24:48 . You have high frequencies off the and that the banks to process low

24:56 . And guess what? If you at the spiral ganglion cells atone a

25:00 map what cells are connected to what ? Hair cells and inner hair cells

25:07 the spiral ganglion, if they're connected 16 kilohertz, will carry that 16

25:12 information all the way through the auditory into the cochlear nucleus and all the

25:19 here that has shown passing through all way into the primary auditory cortex.

25:26 in the visual world, we had ocular dominance left, right, left

25:31 . But here we actually an orientation for the signals in the primary visual

25:38 . Now we have here frequency selectivity basically, if you were record from

25:45 in the primary auditory cortex. In area, there will be most responsive

25:49 low frequency sounds and in this area will be most responsive to high frequency

25:54 . So this point by point in case, it's not point by point

25:59 field. It's not actually the auditory . You see it in outside world

26:04 localization of sound. It's the auditory . It is based on the frequency

26:10 with certain hair cells receptor cells on along the pathway to the primary auditor

26:18 processing that specificity for certain frequencies is in the way you can think of

26:25 . This is the receptive field properties the auditory neurons because they're not

26:30 they're receptive fields and what their their are in processing the frequencies of

26:40 We are pretty good at sound and there are some things that we

26:46 every day that help us localize, pretty fast. If you have good

26:51 , sound comes in waves, so know that if it comes from the

26:57 direction over the other, let's say sound is coming from the right,

27:00 waves air coming. It's gonna hit right here first. If the sound

27:05 coming from the front. It hits front first, the side of your

27:11 0.3 milliseconds later and your ear 0.6 later. But you're if you're facing

27:18 directly in front of you, then ears will be hit at the same

27:24 . And behind you you will form is called the sound shadow. So

27:28 will shadow some of that sound as sound waves of traveling through the

27:33 If the sound is coming from the , you will have sound chat on

27:37 left and you will know it's coming The right is gonna be louder and

27:41 going to come in there fast and gonna be quieter and it's going to

27:44 in here second in this direction. of course it could come in different

27:49 . And so this this this first all, the sound itself in the

27:54 and anatomy in the in the penny structured in such a way that it

27:59 allows us thio drive and angular late sound waves and direct them into the

28:06 auditory in the eighties. And because have different angles of sound and

28:12 shadows of different angles. Now you localize the sound with your eyes closed

28:17 well. Which direction to sound is from? No, let's look at

28:23 an example of how you can say the signal is coming from the right

28:29 from the left on how this is in the system. So let's say

28:34 sound from left side. It's coming the left side and increased activity in

28:39 left cochlear nucleus activities then sent to superior Olive. Yeah, sounds from

28:49 in the left and the superior Now what you have is accents from

28:53 cochlear nucleus. They have action and as these accents arrived in the

28:59 olive and you have ah tona topic . But you also have the connectivity

29:05 . This action potential will head on juan synapse with some delay on your

29:10 , too, and with some delay your on three as the sound here

29:16 can see on the left is the wave crosses over your head and now

29:21 on the other side. That's when have activation of accents from the right

29:27 nucleus, which for Jackson to superior and What happens is the two acts

29:34 acts on actual potentials from these different they will meet and the connection number

29:43 on your own. Number three. you will know in this map where

29:48 sound is coming from because 12 is be already active. And all of

29:53 sudden simultaneously, you're gonna have activation the starting your own. So both

29:58 reach Oliver Neuron three at the same . Although the impulse started on the

30:03 side much sooner, it activated some on the way in Summation of synaptic

30:10 here will generate an action potential from you can. It's either the deep

30:19 . So the action potential. So this the fact that you activated here

30:25 activated an action potential in neuron three significant enough deep polarization. Now you

30:30 that the sound was coming from but that just encoding the map.

30:35 this is how you can localize. sound is basically by different sound

30:40 Here's a different times, and through map of connectivity, informing the brain

30:48 where the sound is coming from by sequentially synopsis of neurons that could converge

30:55 different parts if it was coming from right first of with converge on one

30:59 of three. So let's talk about impairments, actually, and we have

31:12 common hearing impairments that are divided into hearing impairments and sensory neural area

31:20 Conduction hearing impairments has anything to do conducting the sound to the cochlear,

31:28 , conduction impairment, calcification of rupture of air drum ear infections,

31:39 , air wax abnormal air wax production will prevent the sound to be

31:45 So anything that kind of dampens the . Sensory neuro refers thio damage to

31:53 cells and the damage to hear sauce be permanent, and the most common

32:00 of damaged hair cells is referred to tinnitus. And people can say,

32:05 , my ears were ringing. And know what? When your ears are

32:10 , you can hear it, and can hear my ears ringing because I

32:15 have tinnitus and I'll tell you how happened to me. So you go

32:20 your concert when you listen to loud and it's kind of loud. And

32:25 if you go and expose yourself to loud sound, you come home and

32:32 hearing his damp and you can hear while you say my ears were plugged

32:38 like flying. And so the following you wake up. Oh, my

32:41 are still a little bit plug. then maybe a day later, you're

32:44 of a year and comes back to . And even during that period,

32:50 your years applaud, you also may hearing a little bit of kind of

32:54 ringing or whistling. And that goes . So for me, tinnitus started

33:02 I wanted to concert on the group my friends decided to come closer to

33:07 speakers to mean, and Chaka Khan on stage and the music equipment was

33:17 off and even commented. I set high pitches so turned out, it's

33:22 unbalanced sound. We stood there trying catch up with our friends for maybe

33:29 minutes. It was so loud and Lee loud by the speaker said,

33:33 actually left and I had plugged ears night, and then I woke up

33:39 the morning and my ears were plugged I had drinking. It's okay in

33:45 evening, my ears were plugged and still had ringing following morning, my

33:50 were plugged and I still had So I went thio doctor, and

33:56 took a hearing test. I Yeah, you lost some hearing in

34:01 of your years. I said, , I lost it, but it's

34:06 come back and maybe your test is and well, the doctor said,

34:12 , but it's it's rare and I how you feel. But you're likely

34:17 to gain that hearing back and may have persistent tinnitus senators. Okay,

34:26 I said, I don't believe I'm going to come back in 23

34:29 and you're gonna test me and you're to see that my hearing is

34:33 And of course, I went back weeks and they took a test

34:38 Sorry, buddy, you're hearing is bad. How is that ringing?

34:42 said it's bad. So they gave some steroid medications and wasn't helping that

34:49 with it at all. And then exacerbates the tinnitus years. Really ringing

34:56 makes it ring. So what is ringing? This is you killed some

35:01 cells. You destroyed some cilia and your pictorial number and is loose and

35:06 essentially vibrating almost all of the times you lost the proper structure underneath this

35:12 ringing is it's a loss of hearing partial loss of hearing we It's a

35:19 frequency hearing that gets affected, close to the base and the sounds

35:25 actually process the auditory. The vocal voices are at the at the corner

35:35 the bend of the cochlear. So get preserved actually the longest if you

35:39 ah, damage Thio co created to to the hair cells into the

35:44 Just anatomy itself protects us from losing range that allows us to understand the

35:53 language. Um, now, if have permanent hearing loss and then it's

36:01 significant, then you may have a option off cochlear implants and cochlear

36:08 and it's something that is shown So you have ah, skin.

36:16 then on the surface of the skin you have receiving antennas and these receiving

36:23 are connected to basically you have microphones a receiver circuitry and the sound processing

36:31 then each one of these electrodes you a long sort of you in sort

36:40 a long electrode into this coiled Okay, insert that and along

36:50 uh, insert, you have many electrodes. And so you make sure

36:56 the high frequency sound coming from and by the receiver here is activating the

37:05 frequency cells. In this case, hair cells air lost. So what

37:13 doing is you're stimulating the spiral ganglion , so if you damage the hair

37:19 , their hair cells do not You do not gain your hearing back

37:24 a while. Miraculously, just the . Usually with age, the hair

37:29 age and you have for for a . So if you're missing the hair

37:36 , you have damage to the Of course you are. You can

37:41 . Then you have these electrodes and have hundreds of these electrodes micro electrodes

37:49 are part of this insert here that process the sound and will segregate the

37:55 based on the frequencies and will stimulate frequency spiral ganglion south close to the

38:01 on low frequency. The response to ganglion south, close to the helical

38:08 and the apex of the cocorium. , so, again, this is

38:14 sensory neural damage is damage to the . Damage to the hair sauce.

38:21 , uh, this is a way combating that damage through the cochlea

38:31 In this case, we're going to the barn owl, and we will

38:36 what a sophisticated sonar and what a sound localization system the barn halls

38:45 So enjoy this, uh, short . About 2.5 minutes. 34

38:53 Almost. It turns into the empty . The noise of wind and snowfall

39:02 filtered out, its rustling that the is interested in a false alarm,

39:14 it doesn't have to wait. Long deep under the snow, a lemming

39:21 a high frequency Russell on around The penalty for rustling is death

39:29 The signals are too weak for our , but this hour has the ultimate

39:35 . It's face acts like a satellite . Dish is formed by a ring

39:42 stiff feathers. They collect and channel inwards. Eyes look central, but

39:52 dish actually focuses on the ears. on the side of the tiny skull

39:57 to the eyes with the dish is by a lane of bristles giving stereo

40:09 . It's like having a giant cupped behind each year. Yeah, photo

40:25 able must tune it receiver the dishes . The eyes automatically follow too

40:35 then back again. The lemming is being totally reckless. Sound dish and

40:46 are now focused. From this point , it won't look away until the

40:53 is in its talents. Resort Els approach is absolutely silent.

41:11 velvety feathers have serrated edges that simply the here as a result, nor

41:17 flaps interfere with the lemmings. Transmission remains focused at all times, even

41:30 it has to fly around obstacles beneath carpet of snow. A stationary target

41:47 easy Thio, but it's not just simple dive. Bomb attack head stays

41:59 on until the lie last moment. the talons air raised into the line

42:04 the sound booth. Claws on each are extended to above and two

42:15 perfect for catching cylindrical dream lemmings. is up. Even if the lemming

42:23 moving, the owl can compensate. owl hovers. It checks signal

42:31 Body twists on the talents of When you're dealing with senses, this

42:43 specialized physical defenses like snow can be . E finally figured how do exit

43:01 . Okay, this is the beginning the discussion on somatic sensory system.

43:09 funny images you see here on the is called the homunculus. And the

43:14 why it has such abnormally exaggerated arms lips, especially in some other parts

43:19 the body, is this is a like representation of how much of your

43:25 sensory cortex is dedicated to which organs the body a lot of fine movement

43:30 motor control. A lot of sense and touching comes from the hands of

43:36 and lips and movements and years and sexual organs and arousal. But not

43:43 much space is dedicated to torso, actually dedicates a lot of space anatomical

43:48 the human body so that a sensory processes, uh, somatic sensations,

43:56 stimuli of pressure appropriate exceptional position of and muscles with respect. Thio the

44:06 world where the muscle, how the and joints are activated. Distension of

44:13 , temperature of limbs and brain so have temperature receptors. You have chemo

44:19 , and you have pain. Receptors are part of this amount of sensory

44:24 receptors in this case are unique. widely distributed throughout the body, so

44:29 we talked about receptors individual system. was indirect mint when we talked about

44:36 in the auditory system that was in cocorium. What we're talking about.

44:40 for somatic sensations air all over our and face and head, mostly processing

44:51 senses to touch, temperature, pain appropriate exception. It is important to

45:00 and remind ourselves some basic anatomy of skin here, which consists of the

45:07 or the service layer of the skin the Durmus, or the deeper layer

45:10 the skin that is now connected to fatty tissue. And we have,

45:17 , two types of skin. We glamorous skin and we have hair

45:22 We'll see. Harris Skin is illustrated , and you have the hair

45:29 the hair roots here and what you're . These is different. Nerve endings

45:37 different receptors that are gathering the information the skin. You have free nerve

45:45 . You have Pechiney, um, puzzles. You have Ruffini sendings.

45:51 have Meisner score apostles and they're distributed the dermis, a different extent of

45:59 dermis and the relationship to the skin to the hair follicles and heroines.

46:07 is the largest organ of our You cannot survive with our skin.

46:16 cannot live without a skin. Significant of skin due to Barnes,

46:24 can be deadly. Skin is, , not only very large or the

46:33 organized the body. It is the expensive organ in our body. It

46:44 the organ on which we spend a of money. We use shampoos and

46:55 , hair dyes, moisturizers and so and so forth. Hyaluronic acid,

47:07 , CVD, whatever. Everything. e, vitamin C and tyrannical

47:17 Anti aging, anti inflammatory healing Whoa. Talking about hand sanitizers.

47:31 , so the microbes live on the to massive massive industry tattoos, a

47:41 removal. It's all there. so just think about skin that,

47:49 know, we look at it as superficial thing for beauty a lot of

47:54 or looks, but indeed, it a very important organ that's connected to

47:59 lot of nerve endings. And, , modern day society pays a lot

48:05 attention. Thio what is being fed the skin and through the skin.

48:14 , when we talk about receptive fields , it's really easy. It was

48:20 to understand receptive field properties off the cells and retina GM and primary visual

48:29 . Here, the receptive field is actual receptive field on the surface of

48:34 skin. So you have the Meisner . Apostles remember, we have these

48:39 score puzzles here and there. They have small endings here, and

48:45 they have small, receptive fields. you'll have miser score puzzles, especially

48:50 located at the thin that index It's a finger that you use the

48:55 . If you look Pechiney Encore possible fields are much larger because they're actually

49:00 larger core puzzle itself in the in ending that is, processing that

49:08 And so you have this What is , uh, two points discrimination test

49:17 can take to objects you can take , uh, pants. You can

49:24 two fingers and you can touch your , and you can move those fingers

49:30 closer the closer, the closer, closer. And you can still say

49:33 it's two fingers. You can do same tests on the course of loves

49:38 eyes and somebody will touch you and say You're touching me with two

49:42 two fingers, two fingers. If spread. But if it comes

49:46 I can't tell if it's two fingers one. Okay, special if the

49:50 is small, so you have very , receptive fields at the level of

49:55 torso. 42 millimeters wide at the that is not very sensitive, even

50:02 . And then you have very small find receptive fields that are located in

50:07 in the index finger and, of , located in the face and the

50:11 the mouth of lip region. So not only receptive field size that's important

50:19 also the adaptation and how they react the somatic stimuli you have.

50:26 Uh uh, those Air miser score , opportunity, um, core

50:32 And you have slow adapting on these Merkel's discs and roof finis endings.

50:39 means that with rapid adaptation, Meisner apostle as soon as you stimulate the

50:45 . It produces a lot of action , and it adapts to that very

50:49 . Samos petunia and carrot possible. with Merkel's disk or Ravinia endings,

50:55 somatic stimulation activist Merkel's This is actually of slower, so you will still

51:03 producing action potential. Aspiring away during stimulus, not only during the initial

51:09 , so to speak. But also the actual continuous touch, you will

51:15 a continuous number of action potentials. think about Adaptation is something that you

51:24 every day, somatic adaptation. A example is if you buy a new

51:32 on new government and you put it , and at first, when you

51:36 it on, maybe it steals a bit uncomfortable. You adjusted and you

51:40 it for a couple of seconds, then it goes away. So you

51:43 quite a bit of the adaptation of , uh, somatic sensory nerve

51:50 Otherwise, and if you have abnormal sensations, you may be irritated by

51:57 a shirt the whole day is may you just just not adapt and just

52:03 you. And that is a certain that happened with hypersensitivity and with the

52:10 of adaptation. So why use fingertips Braille reading? Because you will have

52:17 high density of the receptors and the with the smallest receptive fields To discern

52:23 highest degree off spatial resolution. You small, receptive fields. You have

52:32 rain tissue that's devoted according to the , Uh, and there is special

52:39 mechanisms that are also associated with with resolution discrimination that are that are potentially

52:47 of the actual touch but is connected higher cognitive centers in a way,

52:55 we have these major primary affairs. already learned these primary appearance that are

53:03 in this dorsal root ganglion cells entering the dorsal spinal cord. We have

53:10 appropriate sectors on you have group one that are the largest in diameter and

53:17 the fastest and conductivity because they're so and they're my eliminated group to fibers

53:25 mechanical receptors of the skin. They're to 12 micro meters in diameter,

53:33 they are a little bit slower than . Very large appropriates after fibers for

53:40 skeletal muscles, the pain and temperature by the smallest type three fibers that

53:51 the smallest in diameter, the slowest processing that information. And then you

53:57 a mile in ated uh, He's Ah, Alfa Alfa A data

54:07 delta, and then you have C to refer to them or group four

54:12 that are on the myelin native, they process temperature, pain and

54:19 They're the smallest in diameter there the in there because they're in myelin

54:24 They're also don't have very much off tile power, so to speak.

54:31 is the best example that I um, into understanding the speed,

54:37 of the transmission and the speed of reaction of these different fibers? And

54:43 go to one of my favorite stories Dr House E I. I watch

54:53 episodes off this syriza, and I say that I'm like a huge fan

54:58 that serious. But I was listening an interview with Dr House, and

55:04 said that when he was a he had this strange, um,

55:12 or affliction off. How long will be able to hold his hand in

55:19 bucket off eyes? Uh, you , for issues own that that was

55:27 thrills By trying to guess, push limits of how he's going to react

55:34 really eyes called water temperature to with hand and the reason why I bring

55:42 sub. So maybe you'll remember Dr . Maybe you'll remember bucket of

55:48 Maybe you'll remember your own experience of to grab something from the cooler,

55:53 finding. And then, after some actually withdrawing your hand because he's getting

56:02 . So let's imagine a situation where have water, very cold water with

56:10 , and we're gonna take our We're gonna close our eyes. We're

56:14 try to bring this hand into the of ice. And as we bring

56:18 hand into the bucket of eyes, appropriate exception is going to inform us

56:23 the bending of the muscles off the . Okay, where it's located,

56:29 mechanical receptors. When you touch the off the water, it's a different

56:35 . There's ice mechanic receptors are gonna you. You're touching something different.

56:42 some time, that different is going seem cold to you. And after

56:48 longer time, if you manage to your hand on that ice water,

56:52 will start feeling pain not just the temperature but paying from that ice water

56:58 which you're likely to withdraw your hand tried to warm it up. So

57:05 only thing that we haven't mentioned here each. But this whole progression should

57:12 you first is appropriate exception. Then am I touching? Mechanical, Then

57:16 it Ah, hot object or called it's called, can I keep my

57:21 until it gets so painful? The fibers get activated. And then if

57:25 irritate your skin, long and I be subjected to long enough of the

57:29 change or another stimulate, maybe even nauseous stimuli. You will feel hitch

57:35 inches of persistent activation of these on myelin native fibers. Uh, that

57:41 activated. Uh, Thio essentially send signal onto the higher processing center.

57:49 please remember the example off the four . It's easy, biggest, fastest

57:56 they have this located. Appropriate I cannot receptors what I touched

58:03 What? What? What? I'm pain. I'm feeling pain and then

58:08 is a modern native fibers. So , uh, we're about thio.

58:18 mawr most amount of sensory system. I see that I have actually fallen

58:24 some of the material on the somatic system. And what I would like

58:31 do is just walk you through this cord and Dermot Tone anatomy, and

58:37 going to take a break and we'll up the amount of sensory system the

58:43 writer. So if you recall we divisions off the vertebra and the spinal

58:49 into the cervical, thoracic, lumbar sacral spinal cord and each one off

58:55 spinal nerves. That air coming in between each one of the segments has

59:00 own zone on the skin, it's derma Tone, So German tone is

59:08 that's innovated by these sensory dorsal root fibers, or one side by single

59:16 segment. So everything on the back the head on the skin when you

59:21 this process by C. One C on the next C three. C

59:26 c 567 If you touch this this process just by C one on

59:33 right, this side See one on left, these Air Derma Tom's and

59:38 precise connectivity. And if you took the whole human anatomy here, then

59:44 drew the Dermot Tones. Are correspondent use spinal nerve? This is exactly

59:50 drawing that you would have, where have the most lower sacral spinal nerves

59:56 out of the spinal cord. Supplying most lower extremities as well is

60:01 uh, sexual organs here and, , uh, muscles and the gluteal

60:12 and where you have, of the Urus IQ is gonna be all

60:16 the thorax and cervical is gonna be , the upper limbs and the back

60:22 the head. This is a Dermot . This is another examples of derma

60:29 , and Dermot tones are relevant, it's relevant. Thio what we see

60:36 in the form of the disorder called and if you heard of shingles.

60:42 maybe you have even seen vaccinations for for shingles being advertised in the pharmacies

60:52 his shingles. So shingles happens as a child, if you were

61:01 with herpes zoster virus, which commonly known as chicken pox virus. So

61:09 happens after a week or so? get covered with red. It's your

61:16 on your skin can occur in different . It can be distributed on the

61:22 and could be in your arms and usually recover. And what happens to

61:28 virus from the periphery from the Antero Greatly. It travels into the

61:37 cord, and it stays dormant in single in the spinal cord. It

61:49 dormant. Okay, it stays dormant the primary sensor neurons, but

61:55 What does that mean? That means after some 30 40 50 years.

62:02 virus may get reactivated for a lot people. They never hear from this

62:07 again. But in some cases the revives, and it basically starts wreaking

62:15 on somatic sensory system. The result this is shingles. You can see

62:22 a single derma tome on the lower back of this person into the

62:27 here. And these shingles here is labeling one single Dermot tome. So

62:33 these herpes zoster virus reappears and reactivates the dust on just one single spinal

62:47 on one side, it's essentially like mapping of this Dermot own along the

62:54 that belongs to that particular spinal court on the dorsal root ganglion. So

63:00 being dormant now, it's retrograde goes back into the skin and cause

63:06 these massive rashes, invitation and And so when people say that all

63:13 is it just in its shingles is a niche right? Imagine you have

63:18 massive. It's just going across your in different parts. You cannot touch

63:23 very sensitive to clothing. You cannot . It's painful. It's not just

63:29 itch. It actually can be burning sensation from shingles. Uh, so

63:34 good news is that there is vaccination shingles now, virus reactivates Onley in

63:42 dorsal root ganglion. And this is way of nodding these derma tones.

63:48 we'll take a break. And when come back, we'll walk you through

63:53 , um, central doc ways off some out of sensor information.

64:00 look at the homunculus and the Look at the Samata topping rodents.

64:06 if we have time, we'll watch Chandra video. But if we

64:10 we'll come back and watch it after break. Mhm. So I'm gonna

64:18 here

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