NEUR30003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Depolarization, Temporal Lobe, Subcutaneous Tissue

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR30003
• Professor: Peter

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* the type of skin on the palms, soles of the feet, some parts of the face there is glabrous skin (hairless skin). Even though we get touch information from the entire body surface, it is the glabrous skin that gives the most important information about touch (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause that"s ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)e i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ta(cid:272)t (cid:449)ith the e(cid:454)ter(cid:374)al (cid:449)orld. * touch is a method of detecting some sort of physical energy when it comes in contact with our body surface and this occurs by deforming it somewhat (mechanical change occurs when something touches). * touch is a form of mechanoreception senses mechanical change or distortion. * there is a receptor that transduces the energy - in the case of the skin the receptors are various types of encapsulated nerve endings they are all in the surface of the skin or slightly deeply.