Kinesiology 1080A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Cortex, Diffuse Axonal Injury, Primary Motor Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

If damaged, a structure (such as the arm) would not move: physical education, franklin m. henry, examined whole body (gross) movements and developed experimental approaches to understanding how we learn to produce complex movements. Overview of the nervous system: divisions: cns and pns focus on pns somatic division, proprioception: knowing where your body is in space, extrafusal fibres allow you to move. The cerebral cortex/cerebrum: phrenologists back in the day had the idea that different parts of the brain deal with different things. Video: individuals who have m1 lesion damaged always exhibit a cocontraction (agonist and antagonist muscles are locked together) Locked in syndrome is very difficult to recover from: brain stem has very low plasticity and does not repair itself cortex is much better at this. Types of strokes: types of strokes, hemmorrhagic stroke, arterial wall rupture; leakage of blood into the brain (blood is very toxic to neurons)