Question

1. Let’s say I cut the dorsal nerve on my spinal cord and I put my hand on a hot stove…what would be my response?

2. Let’s say I were to cut the ventral root nerve on my spinal cord and I put my hand on a hot stove…what would be my response?

Answer 1

doral: incoming to the brain, you won't feel hot pain
ventral root: you would feel the pain, but not likely to jerk hand away.

Answer 2

and why would that be could you explain