📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic.
🔹 Physiology
- Tactile receptors in skin and their functions: Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner’s corpuscles, Ruffini endings, Merkel cells, A-delta fibers and C free nerve endings
• Ascending sensory pathways and differences between them
• Transmission in dorsal column–medial lemniscal system
• Spatial orientation of nerve fibers in dorsal column–medial lemniscal system
• Two-point discrimination
• Diagrammatic representation of body areas in somatosensory cortex I
• Brodmann areas of cerebral cortex and their functions
• Functions of somatosensory area I
• Layers of somatosensory cortex and their functions
• Functions of somatosensory association area
• Submodalities of nondiscriminative touch, temperature and nociception
• Receptor transduction mechanism, localization in spinal gray matter and central termination of anterolateral pathways
• Functional organization and submodalities of anterolateral system
• Equivalent components of spinal trigeminal system
