Sensory information
ascending carry sensory information toward the brain.descending convey motor command to the spinal cord.
afferent nerves of the ascending spinal pathways.
The spinal cord transmits messages between the body and brain through nerve pathways.
Nerves
ascending tracts
reticulospinal
reflex
memory. it does have relay, somatotype and decussation
columns
1 sensory organ - sensory nerves - spinal cord - brain 2 brain - motor nerves - spinal cord - muscles
ascending (sensory/afferent) and descending (efferent/motor) tracts.Addition: Other than these two types of tracts, the white matter of spinal cord also contains "associative tracts" containing short ascending and descending fibres which coordinate the function of the different regions of spinal cord.
the Babinski Test