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Dorsal Column – Medial Lemniscal System (DC-ML) Lec 5 Dorsal column-medial lemniscal pathway Romberg’s test Sensory ataxia Spinocerebellar tract (Fibers from arm) Spinocerebellar tract (Fibers from leg) Friedreich’s ataxia 1. Spino-cerebellar degeneration 2. Autosomal recessive disease 3. Symptoms begin before puberty; Ataxic gait, dysarthria, loss of reflexes…. 4. Most patients are wheelchair bound within 15-20 years of onset. Spatial orientation of DC-ML system • Lower part of the body is represented medially • Upper part of the body is represented lateraly Types of sensations transmitted by DCML system 1. Proprioception (the sense of relative position of parts of the body in space) 2. Precise touch, 3. Vibration sense, 4. Pressure sensation. 5. Two-point discrimination. Tactile Hallucination; Definition; feeling of tactile sensation without the presence of an actual external stimuli. Major causes of tactile hallucinations; 1. Cocaine, phencyclidine, Methamphetamine abuse. 2. Delirium tremens. 3. Phantom limb pain. 4. Dementia 5. Psychiatric disorders. Tactile hallucination is subdivided to pleasant and unpleasant tactile hallucinations. Two-point discrimination Somatosensory cortex Damage to area 5 & 7 & / or Dorsal column: • Astereognosis • Abarognosis • Agraphesthesia STEREOGNOSIS GRAPHESTHESIA Damage to SS Association area Non-dominant hemisphere (Brodmann’s area 5 & 7) • Unilateral negligence • Asomatognosia The example is shown above and the patient's copy to the right. Patients with left neglect sketch the entire circle and write the numerals 12, 3, 6, and 9 at their correct locations. The patient was satisfied that she had sketched the entire clock face shown to her. She acknowledged her omissions when they were indicated to her. Note the bunching of numerals on the right side, another characteristic of clock drawing by patients with neglect. • Unilateral neglect when copying a scene, executed by the same patient. Before she started copying, she was asked what she saw. She said, "A tree, a house, and a fence." After she believed that she had copied the entire picture, she was asked again what she saw in the original picture: "A tree and a house." Note not only the absence of figures from the left side of the scene, but also that only half the tree was drawn, thus demonstrating two different kinds of neglect on drawing tasks (environment-based neglect and object-based neglect). The distortion of elements in drawings (constructional apraxia), as shown here, is also common in patients with unilateral neglect Trigeminal nucleus Discriminative touch from face The proprioceptive axons in the trigeminal nerve