Somesthetic senses.

Placing erection in context: the reflexogenic-psychogenic dichotomy reconsidered.

Penile erections are usually classified as arising from "reflexogenic" or "psychogenic" causes. In practice this dichotomy has translated, somewhat circularly, to a distinction between spinal vs. supraspinal mediation, pelvic vs. hypogastric neural mediation, and perineal somesthetic stimulation vs. stimulation of receptors innervated by the cranial nerves. Evidence for differential regulation ...

Interaction of two somesthetic areas in the cerebellum of the cat.

Interaction of the corebellar anterior lobe and paramedian lobule somesthetic areas were investigated by electroanatomical and electrophysiological methods. Interruption of the intracerebellar connection between these somesthetic areas and topical application of 1% lidocaine to the anterior lobe forelimb area, resulted in a partial depression of evoked responses in the paramedirn lobule forelim...

Thalamic POm projections to the dorsolateral striatum of rats: potential pathway for mediating stimulus-response associations for sensorimotor habits.

The dorsolateral part of the striatum (DLS) represents the initial stage for processing sensorimotor information in the basal ganglia. Although the DLS receives much of its input from the primary somatosensory (SI) cortex, peripheral somesthetic stimulation activates the DLS at latencies that are shorter than the response latencies recorded in the SI cortex. To identify the subcortical regions ...

Somesthetic Functions in Patients with Brain Disease and Normal Subjects

Significant vestibular system impairment is common in a cohort of elderly patients referred for assessment of falls risk.

BACKGROUND Falls in elderly patients are associated with morbidity, mortality, and cost to the healthcare system. The development of falls risk assessment programs have represented a method of responding to what is known about injurious falls. The multidimensional assessments involve the comparison against normative data of a patient's performance on metrics known to influence the likelihood of...