📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic.
🔹 Physiology
- Motor functions of specific cortical areas
• Transmission of signal from motor cortex to muscles
• Pyramidal pathway
• Extrapyramidal pathway
• Excitation of spinal cord motor control areas by primary motor cortex
• Excitation of spinal cord motor control areas by red nucleus
• Functions of descending tracts
• Decerebrate rigidity
• Decorticate rigidity
