SPINAL CORD SYSTEMS:




    
Ascending/sensory systems:

  1.   punctate touch:  dorsal columns of the spinal cord

  2.   temperature:  lateral spino-thalamic tract

  3.   general pressure:  lateral spino-thalamic tract

  4.   pain:  ventral spino-reticulo-thalamic tract

  5.   length:  dorsal spino-cerebellar tract

  6.   force:  ventral spino-cerebellar tract


    Descending/motor systems:

  1.   pyramidal

  2.   extra-pyramidal

  3.   rubrospinal

  4.   tectospinal

  5.   reticulospinal

  6.   vestibulospinal

Last updated Aug 31, 1998, 5:10 p.m.