Why is visceral pain often perceived as cutaneous pain?

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Hey, everyone. Let's take a look at this question together when two different sensory information share a neural pathway within the spinal cord, which of the following may happen is it answer choice A? It can result in stronger receptor potential. Answer choice B it can result in a mixing or confusion of signals. Answer choice C it can cancel the signal sent by the receptors or answer choice D none of the above. Let's work this problem out together to try to figure out which of the following answer choices best explains what would happen when two different sensory information share neural pathways within the spinal cord. So in order to solve this question, we have to recall what we have learned about neural pathways within the spinal cord to determine which of the following would happen when we have two different sensory information, sharing the same neural pathway. And looking at our answer choices, we see answer choice A which says it can result in stronger receptor potential, which we know that the receptor potential is influenced by the strength or intensity of an individual stimuli acting on those receptors. So answer choice A would be the result of two of the same sensory stimuli and not two different sensory stimuli. So answer choice A is not possible making it incorrect as well as answer choice C which says that it can cancel the signal sent by the receptors, which we know it's also incorrect. Since the sharing of neural pathways would not result in the cancellation of a signal sent by the receptors and instead would result in an integration or misinterpretation of those sensory signals. So answer choice C is incorrect. And lastly answer choice B which says that it can result in a mixing or confusion of signals, which we know that when we have two different sensory information signals sharing a pathway, it can lead to a mixing or confusion of signals since we have two different signals sharing that same pathway. So answer choice B is the correct answer and all other answer choices are incorrect. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.