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You accidentally step on a nail. Describe all neural processes you can think of involved leading up to your regaining your balance. You can underline/highlight each new item, eg. the "withdrawal reflex occurs;" not to lose points.

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Answer:

Pain receptors in the skin of the foot where stimulus of pain occurs, are  transmitted as  action potential through  sensory or motor neuron to the CNS. This impulse enters the  Spinal cord through the dorsal roots, and synapse through  the sensory neuron cells body with the intermediate neurons,At the same time the sensory information is  transmitted  to the brain.

The brain integrated this message, and impulses from the pain center of the brain is relay to the motor neuron as it synapse with the other route of the intermediate neuron.

Therefore  the integrated  message  leaves the spinal cord through the ventral roots convey by  the efferent or motor neuron. This travels down to the effectors/ muscles of the foot , which leads to raising of foots-withdrawal reflex from the nail.

The entire pathways is called reflex Arc.While the process us called  reflex action.

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