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THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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• Your body performs many functions that maintain life, such as heartbeat, temperature, digestion and blood pressure.
• The regulation of conditions that maintain life is called homeostasis.
• The nervous system is used by your body to maintain homeostasis
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• Neurons are nerve cells
• Neurons are made up of dendrites and axons
• Dendrites receive impulses from other neurons
• Axons carry impulses away from the neurons
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• There are three types of neurons:
- sensory neurons receive information and send impulses to the brain and spinal cord
- interneurons in the brain and spinal cord relay impulses to the motor neurons
- motor neurons conduct impulses to muscles or glands throughout the body
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• To move from one neuron to another, an impulse crosses a small space called a synapse
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• The Central Nervous System (CNS) contains the brain and the spinal cord
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• The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) is made up of all the nerves outside the CNS, including:
- cranial nerves (in the head) - spinal nerves
* The PNS connects the brain and spinal cord to other body parts
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The BRAIN
• The brain is an organ of soft nervous tissue which functions as the center of sensation and intellectual activity - (that’s your senses and ability to think)
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• The brain coordinates all of your body’s activities
• The brain is protected by the skull, three membranes, and a layer of cranial fluid
• The brain is divided into three major parts: the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem
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BRAIN STEM
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• The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain.
• It is where thinking takes place, the center of intellectual activity
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• Also in the cerebrum:
- impulses from the senses are interpreted- memory is stored- movements are controlled
• The bumpy outer layer of the cerebrum is called the cortex
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• The cerebellum is the part of the brain that controls voluntary muscle movements, maintains muscle tone and helps maintain balance
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• The brain stem extends from the cerebrum and connects the brain to the spinal cord
• The brain stem is made up of the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla
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• The spinal cord is an extension of the brain stem
• It is made up of bundles of neurons that carry impulses from body parts to the brain, and from the brain to the body parts
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• The spinal cord is protected by bones called vertebrae
• Injury to the spine can cause paralysis, the loss of muscle movement.
• The higher up the spine the injury is, the more of the body that is affected
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• In the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS), there are two divisions:
• The somatic system controls voluntary actions – movements you choose
• The autonomic system controls involuntary actions like heart rate and breathing
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• A reflex is an involuntary response to a stimulus
• A reflex involves a simple nerve pathway called a reflex arc
• A reflex allows the body to react to a potentially dangerous stimulus quickly, without having to think about it (such as heat)
• Reflexes are controlled in the spinal cord, not the brain; the brain acts after a reflex (putting on burn cream, for example)
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• The sensory systems are parts of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information
• Sense organs are specialized organs that initiate the process of sensory perception
• The body’s main sense organs are the eyes, ears, tongue, nose and skin
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• A sensory system consists of sensory receptors, neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in sensory perception