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This document provides an overview of special senses, focusing on chemoreception (smell and taste). It details the structures and functions of olfactory and gustatory receptors, as well as the associated pathways. The text highlights the role of different neurotransmitters in triggering or mediating taste experiences and their link with emotion and memory.
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I Chemoreceptions smells taste special senses I · smell/olfaction:1 ofoldestsenses ↓ receptors located in Taste (Gustation):linked to smell ·tastelgustation:combo of 5 senses complexsensory organs ·sweet, sour, salty, bitter ? Umani of the head ⑨ Umani:amino acid glutamate. * ↳ smell Olfaction: ↳ taste ·linked to emotion ↳ vision sour, triggered by Ht memory ↳ hearing olfactory cells in epithelium ↳ equilibrium ion in body fluid closely regulated ↳ In nasal cavity ↳ projectinto olfactory bulb > salty triggered by Nat ↳ olfactory cells live (months ion in body fluid closely regulated then new axons find way to bulb. v sweet associated:glucose Gustation: nutritious food primary gustatory neuron Olfaction: 2. cranial nerve VII, IX, X rodorants bind to odorantreceptors umani- nutritious food 3. synapse in medulla ↳ G-protein cAMP-linked membrane receptors - 4. thalamus 2. Activates Got bitter 5. -> WARNING:toxic Gustatory cortex 3. 4 cAMP (2nd messenger) 4. CAMP-gated cation channel opens I Receptors all over oral cavity · 3. Depolarize cell (+1 But mostly tongue 6. Signal passes along axon buds:taste cell + support cell I reaches bulb. I bud:50-150 taste cells cells non-neural - polarized epithelial =microvilli (4SA) =protein receptor (chanel * =I cell I taste I cell types - V r Type III receptor release ATP : ⑳ & Type III/presynaptic release serotonin extr9: & cravings:physical, psycho, cultures environmentfactors * spice:Somatosensory * saltappetite:lack Nat 2 The ear: ·perilymph in vestibular? tympanic duct-similar to plasma ·endolymph in cochlear duct-secreted by epithelial cells hearing, perception of energy carried -similar I our to ICF 4[k + ] = by sound waves -Freceptive field BUTsensitive to different frequencies -brain differences rather further distance uses timing than neurons to localize sound, takes longer sound waves: >10W, soft sound uncoiled cochlea: -high;and sound Transduction: hearing has multiple steps: complex s de E I air "red - filled fluid filled inner ear ↳ cochlea & ume men cross-section ofcochlear: 3 sensory coding for loudness: -loudness coded in somatic same way as strength (intensity receptor -lorder:more receptors/hair cells activated:more rapid action potentials in sensory neurons. create movementof mem. r sound wave frequency determines displacement basilar membrane of location of active hair cells makes code with info on pitch example ofhair cell: signal transduction in hair cells: sensor coding for pitch: *basilar membrane - variable sensitivity to sound distal wave frequency along length -end 7 nigh basilar ION oval helicotrema membrane window flexible stiff region region Auditory pathway: 4 otolith move in response to gravity lacceleration ~ each side ofbrain ↳ sense linear acceleration I head position. (cochleal into from both gets -> primary neurons sides over 3 cross - -> and neurons normal pathway. Hearing loss:.. conductive transmission in external/middle central damage neural between 9 2. path ear cortex. 3. Sensorineural:damage inner ear cochlear implant 2. EquiliDriUM:State ofbalance components dynamic movementin space static is head in normal, r - upright position - vestibular apparatus (membranous labyrinth) a semicircular canals (3) otolith organs (2 sac-like) N pathway projectto cerebellum -> vestibular apparatus: -connected fluid-filled =>> Nat chambers 1 2 endolymph -into movement position in space. + on semicircular canals: E sense rotational rotation - Otokinetic nystagmus -> ofhead acceleration * during spinning:vision fixed Ispinning) :Why not dizzy? ↳ vestibular stimulate apparatus -endolymph in ampulla moves ↳feel vertigo/dizziness with head rotation ↳ inhibits hystagmus -stops as dancer holds head still... less inertia than if always Optokinetic reflex we follow object - can turning ⑤- even with stationary head ·optokinetic nystagmuscaused by movement of visual field (train) large across refind purpose - fixate gaze on objectfor period 3 itis infrontofeyes then flicking eyes forward to fixon new part ofscene. ·relatively stationary scenes I a smear on retina Physiological Nystagmus > involuntary eye movement that's part of vestibulo- ocular reflex (VOR) nystagmus - repeated back-and-forth Pathways for equilibrirm: movement slow other one way t flicks back quick way ↳ stabilizes images on retina head during movement. 6 * Vision: En lightenters eye ↳ pupil regulates amountoflight e ↳ focused on retina by lens photoreceptors transduce light energy (electrical signall -electrical signal (processed through neural path) Pupil regulates amountlight. Neural Pathway: external Anatomy 7 Neural Pathway: -> re+ind 7 The lens Phototransduction atRetina: - focus the light -concave lens scatters rays ①D common visual defects: accommodation -convex lens converges rays presbyopid-loss · of Ifocal length distance = from Clens-flexible:flatalways) corrected centre of lens to focal point. · myopia -near-sighted (curvature 3 with a ⑧ or too long eyeball) falls short concave lens paint · hyperopia-far-sighted (flat corner 7 corrected with a or shorteyeball falls lens (glasses) Yength too far convex astigmatism corned perfectly · -> - far objects -> parallel rays shaped dome. flattened lens -> broader -> focal retina 2 ↑ night2 pointfalls on * at 3 & -close objects -> raystparallel -> lens unchanged ↑ -> focal point on reting ↳ +00 -> objectunclear long a -close object -> rays parallel - :differentlength = -> lensrounded differentcolour 2 focal length -> shorter -> tocal A pointon retina -> clear object - Accommodation -> eye adjusts shape in oflens to keep object focus & most layers & lens attached to ciliary muscle transparent by ligaments (convles) -> receptors embedded here 8 Phototransduction in rods -> no light: field Centre & small receptive very sensitive. second receptive field:bigger:less sensitive. -> Outer dred black ↑ White cones 3 rods:look and function rods - similarly lower intensity (night. cones day - time -> colour. 9 * cross-section. processing of light: Visual field NB: color-blindness: -on X-chromosome mostly men - - show red green number -> colour blind sees 378 3 2 = 5. look with · Edge detection eye:2D r look with y -> makes white block show eyes:3D monocular ganglion cell visual (Receptive field: reversed colours (red -> adaptations cones Afiring it long stimulusl* opponent-colour theory (in white light, green comes send message through red-green channel (unopp used) g 4 color opponentganglion cells centres surround with - separate color opponent properties I : red-green 18