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Chapter 10 - Vibration Sensation, the Posterior Columns, and Related Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Robert Laureno
Robert Laureno
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Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Vibration sense is not affected by disease in the posterior columns of the spinal cord. The idea that they are related to sensing vibration originated with the study of tabes dorsalis, subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, and Friedreich’s ataxia. More modern studies of patients with cordotomy and syringomyelia disprove the belief that vibration sense is carried by the posterior columns. Vibration sensing is accomplished in the phylogenetically old thalamus.

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Vibration sensePosterior columns
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Insights into Clinical Neurology , pp. 55 - 58
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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