How do you transduce pressure on the skin of your forearm and how does that sign

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How do you transduce pressure on the skin of your forearm and how does that signal make its way to the cerebrum and where do you perceive it? What path does a motor impulse in the cerebral cortex follow to reach the biceps brachii? Include all synapse locations and paths.

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Pressure on skin--->mechanoreceptors----> transduce into receptor potentials--->sensory neuron--->axon--->cerebrum. ----------------------------------------------------------- Cerebral cortex--->motor impulse--->motor neuron-->action potential--->biceps brachii

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