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What do receptors do?

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detect changes or respond to stimuli

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What are receptors made of?

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neurons and specialized cells?

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What are receptors classified as?

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complex sensory organs

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What do effectors do?

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respond to efferent signals

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What make up effectors?

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cells and organs

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What is included in effectors?

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skeletal, cardiac, smooth muscles, and glands

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What are the subdivisions of the nervous system?

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central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, nerves, sensory receptors

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What makes up the central nervous system?

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brain and spinal cord

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What makes up the peripheral nervous system?

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all the neural tissue outside of the CNS

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What are nerves?

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bundles of axons with connective tissue and blood vessels

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What do nerves do?

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carry sensory information and motor information

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What do the cranial nerves do?

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connect to brain

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What do spinal nerves do?

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attach to spinal cord

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What are the commands in the PNS?

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cranial nerves and spinal nerves

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What are the functions of the CNS?

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to process and coordinate sensory and analytical data from inside and outside of the body, motor controls that control activities of peripheral organs, and higher functions of the brain like intelligence, memory, learning, and emotion

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What are the functions of the nerves of the PNS?

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to deliver sensory information to the CNS and carry motor commands to peripheral tissues and systems

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What is the function of the receptors of the PNS?

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to detect change or respond to stimuli

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What are the functional divisions of the PNS?

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afferent and efferent division

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What does the afferent division of the PNS do?

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carry sensory information from PNS sensory receptors to CNS

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What does the efferent division of the PNS do?

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carry motor commands from the CNS to PNS to muscles and glands

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Give the order of a general neural circuit.

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  1. skin receptor
  2. afferent or sensory neuron
  3. synapses on interneuron
  4. interneuron
  5. efferent or motor neuron
  6. striated muscles (effector)
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What are the divisions of the ANS?

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sympathetic division and parasympathetic division

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What effect sympathetic division have?

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has a stimulating effect

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What kind of effect does parasympathetic division have?

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Has a relaxing effect

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What are the four structural classifications of neurons?
anaxonic neurons bipolar neurons unipolar neurons multipolar neurons
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Describe anaxonic neurons
no anatomic clues to distinguish dendrites from axons
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Describe bipolar neurons
two distinct processes: one dendritic process and one axon with a cell body between them
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describe unipolar neurons
fused dendrites and axon, cell body to one side
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describe multipolar neurons
multiple dendrites, 1 axon
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Name the 4 types of neural tissue.
ependymal cells, microganglia, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes
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What do ependymal cells do?
they line central canal of spinal cord and ventricles of brain and secrete cerebrospinal fluid
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What are micorganglia?
they are the wandering police force
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What do astrocytes do?
They line the CNS capillaries and maintain the blood-brain barrier
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What do oligodendrocytes do?
insulation, schwann cells (serve as the myelinating cell of the PNS and support cells of peripheral neurons), many axons of the CNS are completely sheathed in the process of oligodendrocytes (myelinated-- internodes and nodes), regions dominated by myelinated axons constitute white matter of CNS, unmyelinated axons and densely packed neuron cell bodies with the concentration of NIssel bodies constitute the gray matter of the CNS
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What are the neuroglia of the PNS?
satellite cells and schwann cells
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What do satellite cells do?
surround the neuron cell bodies in the ganglia
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What do schwann cells do?
form a sheath around every peripheral axon and a schwann cells can myelinate only one segment of a single axon, however, it can enclose segments of several unmyelinated axons
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What are the three functional classifications of neurons?
sensory neurons, motor neurons, interneurons
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What are sensory neurons?
afferent neurons of the PNS
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What are motor neurons?
efferent neurons of the PNS
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What are interneurons?
association neurons
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What do sensory neurons do?
Deliver information from sensory receptors to the CNS
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Where are sensory neurons located?
they are unipolar and the cell bodies are located in peripheral sensory ganglia
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What is a ganglion?
A collection of neuron cell bodies in the PNS
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What do the processes of the sensory neurons do?
processes (afferent fibers) extend from sensory receptors to CNS
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What is the classification of sensory neurons?
somatic sensory neurons and visceral sensory neurons
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What do somatic sensory neurons do?
monitor the effects of external environment
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What do visceral sensory neurons do?
monitor the internal environment
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What are sensory receptors?
the processes of specialized sensory neurons or cells monitored by sensory neurons
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What do exteroceptors do?
sense external environment (touch, temperature, pressure, sight, smell, and hearing)
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What do proprioceptors do?
sense the position and movement of skeletal muscles and joint
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What do interoceptors do?
Monitor inside organ systems and sense taste, deep pressure, and pain
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What do motor neurons do?
carry instructions from the CNS to peripheral effectors
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How do motor neurons carry information?
via efferent fibers: axons traveling away from the CNS
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What is the classification of motor neurons?
somatic motor neurons (somatic nervous system) and visceral motor neurons (autonomic nervous system)
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What do somatic motor neurons do?
Innervate skeletal muscles (to supply with nerves)
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What do visceral motor neurons do?
innervate all peripheral effectors other than skeletal muscles

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