Featured Video Sensory Systems: Auditory Transduction. This 7-minute video by Brandon Pletsch takes viewers on a step-by-step voyage through the inside of the ear, to the acoustic accompaniment of classical music. Brandon Pletsch is a graduate student of the Medical College of Georgia.
Tutorial notes Sensory Systems
Brain Section Images for visualizing sensory pathways
This resource can alo be accessed through the page Learning Materials. It is repeated here because it is a wonderful tool for learning sensory pathways. See for a short overview of the sensory pathways the Summary of Pathways. The Brain Section Images are created by a Community Teaching Assistant. In 2014, B.C. Jackson created the following learning tools for reviewing pathways during the first run of Medical Neuroscience:
Overview of the Thalamus
- The Thalamus: 2-Minute Neuroscience by Neuroscientifically Challenged
- Overview of the Thalamus on Scholarpedia by S.M. Sherman
Overview of Cortex and Cortical Circuits
- Visualizing the brain as a universe of synapses by Stanford Medicine. This is the featured video on the page “Unit 1 NeuroAnatomy”of the Virtual Lab.
General Principles of Sensory Systems
- Ascending somatosensory pathways Video by Bristol Neuroscientists on YouTube
- Your Sixth Sense. Proprioception is your sense of your body’s position in space, and without it you wouldn’t be able to walk or scratch your nose with your eyes closed. Learn more about your “sixth sense” in this video created by UCSD graduate student Alison Caldwell and her husband, Micah Caldwell. The video took third place in the 2015 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
Mechanosensation
- Dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway by Handwritten Tutorials
- Muscle Spindles: Innervations and Alpha-Gamma Coactivation; Video on YouTube by BioME
Pain and Temperature
- Pain and the Anterolateral System: 2-Minute Neuroscience by Neuroscientifically Challenged
- Anterolateral pathway/Spinothalamic tract by Handwritten Tutorials
Visual System
- Optic tracts in a brain specimen ( 5th image of those tracts, move the cursor over the image to get labels) by Anatomie – Amsterdam
- Lateral view of the optic radiation in a brain specimen ( 4th image of those tracts, move the cursor over the image to get labels) by Anatomie – Amsterdam
- How the brain processes 3D motion by the University of Texas
- Visual Pathways:Animation 12.1 – Neuroscience 6th ed.
- Information Processing in the Retina: Animation 11.3 – Neuroscience 6th ed
Auditory System
- Auditory Transduction: YouTube Video by Brandon Pletsch. The Featured Video on this page of the Virtual Lab.
- The Human Ear: Animation 13.1 – Neuroscience 6th ed.
- Basilar Membrane Motion 4: Bach’s Tocata & Fugue by Professor Jim Hudspeth
- Dancing Outer Hair Cell by Prof. Jonathan Ashmore. The video shows an isolated guinea pig outer hair cell to which a whole cell patch clamp electrode has been attached. Through the pipette, an alternating current signal is injected, and the resulting motor response is observed under a microscope.
- Mapping Auditory Frequencies: Animation 6.4 – Mind’s Machine 3rd ed..
Vestibular System
- The Vestibular System: Animation 14.1 – Neuroscience 6th ed.
- Chapter 10: Vestibular System: Structure and Function – Neuroscience Online, University of Texas Health Science Center
- Chapter 11: Vestibular System: Pathways and Reflexes – Neuroscience Online, University of Texas Health Science Center
Chemical Senses: Olfaction
- The Olfactory system: Animation 15.1 – Neuroscience 6th ed.
Chemical Senses: Gustation
- 2-Minute Neuroscience: Taste by Neuroscientifically Challenged
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