Schematic 3D Spinothalamic Pathway
Channel: About Medicine
Date: 2019-02-21

Ascending tracts of spinal cord in 3D, made simple and schematic. The spinothalamic pathway is difficult to get your head around at first, but I try to simplify it in a schematic 3D model for your easy learning.

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What is the Spinothalamic Pathway?

It's a chain of three neurons - first order, second order, and third order neurons - which convey sensory information relating to crude touch, firm pressure, pain and temperature, from the periphery to the brain.

In this video I've tried to simplify the pathway as much as possible. We talk about anatomy, function and the path of the spinothalamic tract itself. Hope you enjoy it.