<span>Ian Waterman was able to sense pain and temperature because his
spinothalamic pathway was intact, but could not feel touch and limb position because of damage to his
lemniscus pathway. </span>
The lateral spinothalamic tract is a sensory pathway which carries sensory information like pain and temperature to the brain, across the thalamus. Free nerve endings which are located in the peripheral tissues are sensitive to cell damage. Those are primary neurons and they pass the sensory signal. Primary neurons synapse with secondary which are located in the spinal cord (white matter). These secondary neurons will ascend through the brainstem, medulla oblongata, pons and midbrain, until synapsing in the ventroposteriorlateral (VPL) nucleus of the thalamus. From the thalamus, the information is sent to cortex (somatosensory cortex).
Posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway is ascending spinal tract, carrying sensory information to the brain (sensory pathway). It conducts localized sensations of fine touch, vibration and proprioception (position sense) from the skin and extremities (muscles) to the central nervous system (cerebral cortex).
In the medical profession, understanding the body position, direction and planes creates a common ground for the professionals to communicate in their work. For instance, if a nurse write down a medical note concerning a patient, the doctor will know exactly the part of the body that the nurse is referring to in her notes. It also makes it easy for doctors and nurses to diagnose the parts of the body where their patients are having problems. Thus, knowledge of human anatomy provides uniformity and precision in structures identification.
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Researchers need a lot of data to monitor a species population because the environment is very diverse in types of species found at different places .
What happens to one part of it could affect the population of other animals, humans, and may also effect the ecosystem of that certain environmental region .
What would happen is if there was no ecosystem in biodiversity every organism would become effected in such a impactful way. It would Decrease population in animals and Humans
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