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What kind of nerves are in the upward tract and downward tract of the spinal cord?
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The ascending tracts (upward) contain sensory nerves, that pass sensory information from the body to the brain.
The descending tracts (downward) contain motor nerves that activate the muscles in the body according to the brain's "commands".
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What kinds of nerves are in the upward tract and downward tract of the spinal cord?
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What kind of nerves are in the upward tract?
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what is the difference between ascending and descending tract?
An ascending tract goes upward. The descending tract goes downward.
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What carries sensory information to the spinal cord?
The major descending motor tract FROM the cerebrum is the corticospinal tract. The major ascending sensory tracts TO the cerebrum are the sensorimotor tract and the dorsal column lemniscal system.
What is the bundle of nerves that travels down through your vertebrae?
The thick bundle of long nerves that runs from the brain through the spine is called the
What does the fasciculus cuneatus control?
Fasciculus ceneatus is a tract of nerves that are located in the spinal cord. Its main function is to transmit information from the arms.
The nerves of the gastrointestinal tract are referred to as?
enteric nerves
What tract conducts impulse from the spinal cord to the thalamus?
to the spinothalamic tract
What is the bundle of nerve fibers that send messages to the brain which interprets them?
The nerves that carry impulses toward the brain are called efferent nerves. Afferent nerves carry impulses away. In way to remember this is afferent equals away.
What spinal tract controls signals the control handwriting?
tectospinal tracts
A lateral tract in the spinal cord would be?
Rubrospinal
