Touch and Muscular Senses

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Induced tissue

Course Contents

Identification of the sense of touch and explanation of the muscular senses Learning of touch receptor fibers Learning of connections in cortex Definiting of functions dorsal column nuclei Learning of Somatosensory cortex Listing of different proprioception receptors and learning each one of these Position and speed sensor Disclosure of corollary discharge in position sensing Functions of spinal reflexes

Weekly Schedule

1) Touch Receptors
2) Conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy
3) Adaptation
4) Recurrent areas
5) Roads to the sensory cortex
6) Functions of dorsal column cores
7) Cortical gate
8) Mid-Term Exam
9) Surface recognition test
10) Receptors involved in proprioception
11) Muscle Spindles
12) Golgi tendon organ
13) Three spinal reflexes
14) Sensory integration
15) Somatoduysal dysfunctions
16) final exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1- https://www.tutis.ca/Senses/index.htm
2- Rodney A. Rhoades, George A. Tanner. Medical Physiology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2nd edition (2004) ISBN: 0781719364
3- Kim E. Barret, Susan M. Barman,Heddwen L. Brook, Jason Yuan. Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology. 26th edition (2019) ISBN: 978-1-26-012241-1

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Discussion
3) Brain Storming

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Semester Studies to Course Grade	40%
Number Percentage Semester Studies Midterm Examination 1 80% Practices 1 20%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required