Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Morning Sickness, Thalidomide, Neuroplasticity

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

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Dysmelic: the ability for a limb to change. *medication for morning sickness had a substance that exposed fetus to thalidomide causes dysmelic. Less activation on cortex: only moving 2 digits. Dysmelic individual: has small motor map for the hand than someone with 5 digits. Change in the size of the motor map, depending on the amount of digits the individuals h use. *when penfield did original mapping of brain, used patients with epilepsy (neurons firing, causi seizures) Kindling: chronically stimulate the brain of a rat, as if the rat had epilepsy. Kindled: undergone mild electrical stimulation, spread the motor cortex of the rat on the sheet paper. Kindled: motor map, much different, the space of the motor map increased, and changed organization of the maps motor map als has to ausing heet of. **derek"s amputation, the chin area is now taking over part of the hand.