Sensory systems I:
Introduction, somatosensory I

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Sensation events
Sensation: Events & tasks
for the nervous system 		PT 17.1
Major sensory
modalities 		5_03
Morphology of
sensory receptors 		5_04
Somatosensory
receptor cells
5_05
Receptors found
in hairless skin 		5_06
Receptors found
in hairy skin 		5_07
Convergence, divergence,
& inhibitory surrounds 		5_08
Multiple steps in
sensory transduction
5_10
Graded & adaptive
sensory potentials 		Kandel, Box 21-1 Kandel, Figs. 21-8, 9, 11
 P 9.3
Pain & temperature
pathways to the CNS 		Kandel, Fig. 24-8
5_13
Spinal cord
ascending systems 		P 9.1
Nocioception
threshold 		P 9.2
A fibers &
C fibers 		P 9.5
Central modulation of
peripheral nocioception
PT 9.2
Endogenous
analgesia 		P Box A
Referred
pain 		5_19
Painful chemical
mediators
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