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SENSORIMOTOR MOVEMENT - Coggle Diagram

- - - - produce fast contractions, fatigue rapidly
    - - produce less vigorous contraction without fatigue
- - - - keeps track of position of body
      - important for planning movement
      - damage: causes difficulty in coordinating visual stimuli w movement
    - - responds to lights, noises that leads to movement
    - - integrates info about position and posture of body
      - organises direction of movement
    - - organises rapid sequence of movements in specific order
    - - important for understanding, identifying & imitating other ppl
    - - lateral corticospinal tract
      - medial corticospinal tract
    - - allows control of muscles of neck, shoulders and trunk
  - - - Purkinje cells
        
        transmits inhibitory messages to cells in nuclei of cerebellum & vestibular nuclei in brain stem
      - parallel fibers
        
        excites Purkinje cells
  - - - caudate nucleus
      - putamen
      - globus pallidus
- - - - depression
      - memory & reasoning deficits
      - loss of olfaction
    - - primary treatment for Parkinson's
  - - - arm jerks
      - facial twitches
    - - memory impairment
      - hallucinations/delusions
      - depression
      - poor judgement