KP161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Traumatic Brain Injury, Multisensory Integration
7 Apr 2016
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Performs processing that is essential to the coordination of movement. Many parallel motor pathways for carrying out an action sequence. If you damage one pathway in your nervous system, there are backup pathways that you can retrain to continue to perform that specific action. Areas send projections to primary motor cortex and spinal cord. Two separate pathways from the parietal cortex to the premotor areas control reaching and grasping. Involves multiple sensory inputs that tell the cns where the body is in space. Maintaining equilibrium requires postural adjustments: compensatory or anticipatory. Disruption of normal brain function as a result of an external mechanical force. May result in temporary or lasting cognitive and/or motor impairments. Physical therapists: design programs to help restore motor function, strength, coordination, balance, endurance, and/or movement. 6 marks from each lecture half short answer/half mc.
