RT Book, Section A1 Barrett, Kim E. A1 Barman, Susan M. A1 Brooks, Heddwen L. A1 Yuan, Jason X.-J. SR Print(0) ID 1159051867 T1 Somatosensory Neurotransmission: Touch, Pain, & Temperature T2 Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 26e YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781260122404 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159051867 RD 2024/03/28 AB OBJECTIVESAfter studying this chapter, you should be able to:Describe the location, type, and function of receptors that mediate the sensations of touch, temperature, and pain.Describe the steps involved in sensory transduction and action potential generation in cutaneous mechanoreceptors and nociceptors.Explain the basic elements of sensory coding including modality, location, intensity, and duration and how these properties relate to receptor specificity, receptive field, receptor sensitivity, and receptor adaptation.Explain the differences between pain and nociception, first and second pain, acute and chronic pain, and hyperalgesia and allodynia.Describe and explain the basis for visceral and referred pain.Compare the pathway that mediates sensory input from touch, proprioceptive, and vibratory senses to that mediating information from nociceptors and thermoreceptors.Describe the deficits caused by lesions of ascending sensory pathways that mediate touch, pain, and temperature.Describe processes involved in modulation of transmission in pain pathways.Identify drugs used for relief of pain and give the rationale for their use and their clinical effectiveness.