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Dementia
Changes and Challenges
Itch:
Surprisingly, this is a distinct sensor system from other touch-related senses.

Thermoception:
Ability to sense heat and cold.

Sound:
Detecting vibrations along some medium, such as air or water that is in
contact with our ear drums. This is fundamental to our ability to communicate
with others. Because we also hear in stereo, we can use this sensory
information to help locate objects in space.

Smell:
Our olfactory sense. When combined with taste pretty much describes our
food.

Proprioception:
This sense gives you the ability to tell where our body parts are, relative to
other body parts (e.g. close your eyes and touch your nose).

Tension Sensors:
These are found in such places as your muscles and allow the brain the ability
to monitor muscle tension.

Nociception:
In a word, pain It is its own unique sensory system. There are three distinct
types of pain receptors; cutaneous (skin), somatic (bones and joints), and
visceral (body organs).
Equilibrioception:
The sense that allows us to keep our balance and sense body movement in
terms of acceleration and directional changes.

Stretch Receptors:
These are found in such places as the lungs, bladder, stomach, and the
gastrointestinal tract. A type of stretch receptor, that senses dilation of blood
vessels, is also often involved in headaches.

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