BISC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Neuromuscular Junction, Sensory Neuron, Stimulus Modality

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Neuromuscular junction: communication between nerve and muscle. All stimuli represent a form of energy and sensory cells transduce this energy to changes in membrane potentials then this modulates action potential. Membrane potential changes are not always the same!!! Sensory cells are very specific meaning they each have a single receptor specific to a particular stimulus. Modality: nature of stimulus energy; is used to classify sensory receptors: 4 types of sensory receptors. Sensory input causes a change in membrane potential. Sensory input modulate probability and frequency of action potential firing. Stimulus perceptions (how you perceive a certain stimulus) are constructions formed in the brain!!! Sensory receptor transduce stimulus energy receptor potential which modulates transmission of action potential to cns. A change in membrane potential occurs 2 ways bc of two main classes of sensory receptors: Receptor is the afferent neuron: the sensory receptor is the afferent neuron itself which receives the stimulus.

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