nervous system overview. divided into two parts: central (cns) peripheral (pns)
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Nervous System
Overview
Divided into Two Parts:
• Central (CNS)
• Peripheral (PNS)
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Central Nervous System
• Brain
• Spinal cord
Brain
• Cerebrum
• Cerebellum
• Brain stem
Cerebrum Cerebral Cortex
• Coordinates– Thinking and learning– Creativity– Five senses– Memory and emotion– Problem-solving– Decisions
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Hippocampus
• Stores and processes memories
• Helps find memories
• Affects emotions
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Cerebellum
• Coordinates– Most muscles– Movement– Learned skills
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Cerebellum
• Receives messages from most of the muscles in your body
• Communicates with the other parts of the brain
• Sends messages about movement and balance back to your body
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Brain Stem
• Coordinates– Heartbeat– Breathing– Digestion – Swallowing– Blinking
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Spinal Cord
• Bundle of nerves that carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
• Long tube of nerve tissue running from the brain down the length of the back inside of the spine
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Peripheral Nervous System
• Somatic NS– Sensory nerves– Motor nerves– Messages between brain and body– CONTROLS VOLUNTARY MUSCLES
• Autonomic NS– Controls organs and some muscles– CONTROLS INVOLUNTARY MUSCLES
NeuronsNerve Cells
• Parts– Soma – Dendrites– Axon
• Carry messages– Called impulses
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Synapse
• Small space across which an impulse moves from an axon to the dendrites or cell body of another neuron
Stimulus-Response
• Stimulus (stimuli)– Anything that the body can react or respond
to• May be internal or external
• Response – the reaction to stimuli
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Impulses are picked up by DENDRITES and travel down the AXON.
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1. Stimuli comes into the brain through the five senses. The nerves that bring stimuli into the body are SENSORY neurons.
2. The impulse travels through INTERNEURONS.
3. When the impulse reaches the MOTOR neuron, the response occurs.
Diversity of Nervous SystemsSimple, slow moving animals like hydra have neurons arranged in a network of bipolar neurons called a nerve net.