Ascending and Descending Tracts

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Across
  1. 4. Direction of spinal pathways carrying sensory information toward the brain.
  2. 7. Sensory neuron carrying information from the thalamus to the cerebral cortex.
  3. 10. Term for information travelling from the central nervous system toward the periphery.
  4. 12. Ascending pathway carrying fine touch, vibration and conscious proprioception.
  5. 13. Crossing of nerve fibres from one side of the central nervous system to the other.
  6. 14. Major descending pathway responsible for voluntary movement.
  7. 16. Term for information travelling from the periphery toward the central nervous system.
Down
  1. 1. Sensory neuron that receives information from a first-order neuron and relays it within the central nervous system.
  2. 2. Structure containing the cell bodies of first-order sensory neurons.
  3. 3. Ascending pathway carrying pain, temperature and crude touch.
  4. 5. Neuron carrying the final motor output from the central nervous system toward skeletal muscle.
  5. 6. Route through which sensory fibres enter the spinal cord.
  6. 8. Route through which motor fibres leave the spinal cord.
  7. 9. Neuron carrying voluntary motor commands from the motor cortex toward the spinal cord.
  8. 11. Direction of spinal pathways carrying motor information from the brain toward the spinal cord.
  9. 15. Sensory neuron carrying information from a peripheral receptor toward the central nervous system.