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central nervous system

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brain and spinal cord

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peripheral nervous system

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the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body

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What two systems are peripheral nervous system divided into?

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somatic and autonomic

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Which systems receives info from an external system?

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Somatic

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What system carries sensory information sent to the brain

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Somatic nervous system

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list 4 properties of somatic system

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external, voluntary, cranial nerves and myelinated spinal nerves, targets skin skeletal and tendon, connect spinal to body

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How is an electrical gradient established

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Difference in charge, like when outside neuron is more positive than inside at resting

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autonimic nervous system sends information from…

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Internal environment

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Which system is under voluntary control

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Somatic

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What does the autonomic nervous system involuntarily control?

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Glandular secretions (sweat) and cardiac muscles (heart rate, blood pressure digestion, breathing)

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what impact does sympathetic system have on adrenal gland

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triggers secretion of epinephrine and norepehrine in the medulla

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when is parasympathetic activated

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when body is at homeostasis

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which system is our fight or flight response

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sympathetic

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what does parasympathetic system use as a neurotransmitter to control organ response

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acetylcholine (ach)

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neurotransmitter

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chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps between neurons

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synapse

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the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron

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What is the subdivision of autonomic nervous system?

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Parasympathetic and sympathetic

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Name three properties of the sympathetic system?

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Speeds up processes such as heart rate, are nerves that transmit impulses when stressed, connects spinal cord to rest of body

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Name three properties of the parasympathetic system?

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Transmits impulses when body returns back to its normal state after stress, slows down heart rate and blood pressure, connects brain to rest of body

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The nervous system is composed of only two main types of cells:

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Neurons and glial cells

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glial cells

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cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons. Defending against infections and removing waste. They account for about half of the volume of the nervous system.

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Neurons

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respond to physical and chemical stimuli, to conduct electrochemical signal

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What are the three types of neurons

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sensory, motor, interneurons/integration

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motor output

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a response to integrated stimuli; the response activates muscles or glands

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sensory input
Information gathered by sensory receptors to the central nervous system. Located in ganglia next to the spinal
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Interneurons
neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate and intervene between the sensory inputs and motor outputs. They act as a link between the sensory and motor neurons. Located in CNS
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Three components of the neuron
cell body, dendrites, axon
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Dendrites
Branchlike parts of a neuron that receive stimuli
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cell body
Largest part of a typical neuron; contains the nucleus and the cytoplasm
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Axon
long cylinder carrying impulse to next neuron or to effector.
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effectors of autonomic nervous system
cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and glands
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Neurilemma function
helps regenerate injured axons/ neuron. Neurons without a neurilemma cannot
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reflex arc
A direct connection between a sensory neuron and a motor neuron that allows an extremely rapid response to a stimulus, often without conscious brain involvement. Occurs through spinal cord
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In steps, explain the reflex arc
1. Receptors sense pressure and initiate an impulse in the sensory neuron
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Why, after stepping on a stone, you would not feel pain or cry out until after your foot was withdrawn?
Because reflex arc moves directly to and from the CNS before the brain centres involved with voluntary control have time to process the sensory information.
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5 components that make up the reflex arc
1. Receptor
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near
70mV
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the membrane registers at
40mV
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action potential
a nerve impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
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The resting potential
The difference in electric charge between the inside and outside of a neuron's cell membrane
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The concentration of potassium at resting potential is
Is high inside the neuron
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The concentration of sodium at resting potential is
High outside the neuron
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The relative charge outside the neuron is
more positive than inside the neuron
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What causes the opening of sodium channels?
When the dendrites of a neuron receive a stimulus the cell membrane becomes more permeable to Na+ by opening specific sodium ion channels.
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What stops action potentials from moving backward along cell membrane?
It can only produce another action potential at resting, so during refractory it cannot produce another because it is hyper polarized
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How does sodium enter the neuron?
Na+ enters the neuron by facilitated diffusion
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Depolarization
The process during the action potential when sodium is enters the neuron causing the inside to become more positive.
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Repolarization
Return of the cell to resting state, caused by reentry of potassium into the cell while sodium exits the cell and thus restoring a positive charge
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Hyperpolarization
the outside of the neuron is more positive than when it is at the resting potential
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What causes hyperpolarization
the potassium channels close more slowly, more potassium ions leave the neuron than sodium ions that have entered the neuron, leaving the neuron in a state of hyperpolarization
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What restores the resting neuron potential?
a sodium-potassium pump begins to pump 3 Na+ out of the neuron and pumps 2 K+ into the neuron.
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refractory period
The time taken for the membrane to return to the resting potential after repolarization
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Complete repolarization must occur before
There's another nerve impulse
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Order of events for membrane potential
1. Resting Membrane
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threshold level of a neuron
the minimum level of stimulus required to trigger action potential
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Any level below -55mV will...
NOT generate a nerve impulse
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all-or-none response
When the threshold level of a neuron has been reached, the action potential generated creates a complete response. Increasing the intensity of a stimulus does not increase the intensity of the action potential. — A nerve fibre will respond either completely or not at all to a stimulus
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What two ways can the intensity of stimulus be increased?
a) Increase the number of neurons being stimulated
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How does autonomic system compare to somatic?
Autonomic is involuntary, gets info from internal environment, controls glandular secretions and cardiac muscles. Somatic is voluntary and from external environment and connects the CNS to skeletal muscles
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The relative charge inside a neuron is....?
More negative
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Where do motor neurons carry information to?
Skeletal muscles
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What is a synapse?
The connection between two neurons, or a neuron and an effector
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neuromuscular junction
synapse between a motor neuron and a skeletal muscle
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Neurotransmitters
chemical messengers that cross between neurons or from neuron to effector
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excitatory neurotransmitters
chemicals released from a neuron that excite the next neuron into firing
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inhibitory neurotransmitters
inhibit the next cell from firing
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At each stage in membrane potential graph, what is happening? What is the charges?
Resting its at -70MV, depolarization na channels open and they diffuse into the inside of the neuron making it positive on the inside , repolarization k channels open and they move inside making it more negative
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Membrane potential
the voltage difference across a membrane
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sodium-potassium pump
a carrier protein that uses ATP to actively transport sodium ions out of a cell and potassium ions into the cell
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How is nerve impulse transmitted from one neuron to another if the neurons do not touch
If its myelinated it goes through nodes of ranvier and synapse, if its not its through depolarization
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What are the steps for How is nerve impulse transmitted from one neuron to another if the neurons do not touch
Impulse nerve reaches end of axon, neurotransmitters release to synapse, vessels break down
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What system is sensory and motor neurons part of
Somatic
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What is acetylcholine?
This is a primary neurotransmitter that transmits impulses across the synaptic cleft.
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Is acetylcholine excitatory or inhibitory?
excitatory; produces muscles contractions, memory formation
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What does it mean if you're acetylcholine deficit?
Alzheimer's
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Where's acetylcholine found
In motor neurons
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What is the cause of depolarization?
When many action potentials are generated one after another along the cell membrane and sodium ions rush into the cell
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If axon is myelinated, action potential is only generated at
nodes of ranvier
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Myelination
Axon part that speeds the transmission of nerve impulses from neuron to neuron
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How can acetylcholine be a problem?
If continuous presence, it'll cause a constant state of depolarization as sodium channels are constantly open
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membrane potential
the voltage difference across a membrane
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If the neurotransmitter is inhibitory, the receptor will trigger
potassium channels to open, allowing potassium ions to flow out. Results in a more negative transmembrane potential resulting in hyperpolarization
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Causes hyperpolarization
Slow to close K+ channels and slow to open sodium channels,
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What happens if stimulus causes sufficient depolarization to reach the threshold potential of the membrane
Action potential in all or none response
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Myelinated neurons make up
white matter of cns
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If the motor area of the right cerebral cortex was damaged in an automobile accident, which side of the body would be affected
Left side of body. each hemisphere of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.
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White matter
myelinated axons
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grey matter
unmyelinated neuron cell bodies and short, unmyelinated axons
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synapse transmission steps
1. impulse travels to synaptic terminal

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