Behavioral Neuroscience, Pictures of Ruffini Organs
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Behavioral Neuroscience
Summers
Sexual Behavior
Reflexes
Sensory Reception - Tactile Receptors
Spinal Synapses
Afferent Spinal Pathways
Hypothalamic Gating
Efferent Motor Cascade
Neuromuscular Production of Lordosis Integrated Story of Lordosis
VIP
Substance P
Estrogens
5-HT
GnRH
ACh
Lordosis figures   Sensory Receptors
Spinal Cord   Lordosis Circuitry
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LORDOSIS: Diagrams of the Spinal Cord

Afferents to Spinal Cord:
1) From Tactile Receptors (Ruffini Endings) to Spinal Cord
Dorsal Root input to Spinal Cord

Reflex Circuitry Only:
1) Senory Afferents to Interneurons to Motor Neurons

Ascending Afferents from Spinal Cord Brainstem:
1) Interneurons up to the Med Retic, LVN and MCG
Spinal Cord to Brainstem


Spinal Cord Pathways:
1) Zones for Ascending Pathways (in Blue)
2) Zones for Descending Pathways (in Red)
Outlines of Spinal cord Pathways

Zones:
1)