Pain Tutorial

Ascending and descending pathways of the spinal cord

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Are the axons in these pathways primary afferents, secondary afferents, or are they efferent fibres?

Click each label once to mark the tract as primary (a yellow outline will appear), and click it a second time to mark as secondary (a purple outline will appear). Click a third time to clear or leave alone to indicate an efferent (motor) pathway. Once you are happy with your choices, click "Check answer" to see how you got on. If your answers are not correct you can reattempt and check again. After 3 unsuccessful attempts you will be offered the opportunity to reveal the correct answers.

Key

primary afferent
secondary afferent
efferent
gracile tract
cuneate tract
lateral corticospinal tract
spinocerebellar tract
rubrospinal tract
reticlo- / tecto- / vestibulo- spinal tract
anterior/ventral corticospinal tract
spinothalamic tract