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What makes up the CNS

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Brain + Spinal Cord

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Functions of CNS

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Integrates, processes, co-ordinates sensory data & motor commands

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Function of PNS

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Delivers Sensory information to CNS and carries out motor commands from CNS to peripheral tissue

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What is a ganglion

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Concentration of nerve cell bodies outside the CNS

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Two divisions of PNS

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Afferent and Efferent

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Difference between afferent and efferent

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Afferent = Sensory neurons, carries impulses towards brain
Efferent = Motor neurons, away from brain
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Two subsections of efferent division of PNS

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Somatic and Autonomic

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What does the somatic nervous system control

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Skeletal muscle (voluntary contractions and reflexes

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What does the autonomic nervous system control

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Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, diaphragm and glands (Involuntary AUTOmatic function)

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Two subsections of the ANS

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Sympathetic and Parasympathetic

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Function Sympathetic division

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Prepares body for flight or fight

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Function of parasympathetic

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Prepares body for rest & response

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What are special senses

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Located in special organs (vision, hearing, taste, smell, balance and acceleration)

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Function of dendrites

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Carry incoming impulses to cell body as graded potentials

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What does the cell body of a nerve cell contain

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Nucleus and Organelles

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Function of an axon

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Carries an action potential away from the cell body

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What connects and axon the cell body and what may surround it

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Axon hillock , myelin sheath

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What are telodendria

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Branching terminals of axon that synapse with another cell

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What are unipolar neurons and what are most common type

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Unipolar only have one attachment to cell body, most sensory neurons from skin are unipolar

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What are bipolor neurons + examples

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Have 1 processes from cell body: 1 axon and 1 fused dendrite. Found in retina, olfactory receptor cell

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What are multipolar neurons and where are they found

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Have many dendrites that attach to the cell body with a signal axon that ends in synpatic terminal, found in CNS, all motor neurons

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List 4 types of neuroglia in CNS

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Ependymal cells, astrocytes, microglia, oligodendrocytes

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Function of astrocytes

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control chemical environment around neurons

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Function of microglia

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Monitor neuron health are are macrophages

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Function of oligodendrocytes
Produce myelin sheath and cholesterol
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Two types of neuroglia in PNS
Satellite cells and Schwann Cells
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Function of satellite cells
Surround cell bodies, supply nutrients and provide structure
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Function of schwann cells
Form myelin sheath
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What interrupts myelin sheath
nodes of Ranvier
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Function of interneurons
Connect motor neurons to sensory neurons
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What is resting membrane potential
Difference in distribution of ions between interior of a cell and extracellular fluid
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What do all somatic motor neurons release at their synapses with skeletal muscle fibre
Acetylcholine
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3 Meninges that surround the brain from outer to inner
Dura mater, arachnoid mater and pia mater
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What is the dura mater
Tough outercoat of fibrous connective tissue
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What is arachnoid mater
Attaches to inner surface of dura mater and ties arachnoid to pia mater (CSF fills the subarachnoid space and cushions brain agaist shock)
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What is pia mater
Contacts the brain and contains many tiny blood vessels
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Where does the cerbrum get 80% of it's blood supply
R & L internal carotid arteries
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What forms the basilar artery
R & L vertebral arteries
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Function of circle of willis
Unites brain's anterior and posterior blood supplies, connects basilar artery to the carotids, equalises blood pressure
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Whats a CVA
Block to blood circulation in brain due to clot where brain tissue dies.
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What is the blood-brain barrier
Endothelial cells of capillaries that serve brain are seamlessly joined together to each other by tight junction
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Function of blood brain barrier
Seperates brain from flucations in hormones, amino acids and ions that occur in blood
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What is the choroid plexus
Part of blood brain barrier but contains porous capillaries, plasma filtered through forms CSF
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Function of cerebrospinal fluid
Cushions brain, transports dissolved gases, nutrients, wastes and chemical messengers
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How does CSF re-enter blood
In supperior saggital sinus via arachnoid granulations
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What does the cerebrum consist of
Gyri (ridges) and Sulci (Grooves) on the brain surface which are organised into lobes
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What divides the left and right cerebral hemisphere
Longitudinal fissure
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Central sulcus function
seperates frontal lobe from parietal lobe
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Anatomyof each hemisphere
Has superifical layer of gray matter (cerebral cortex) over white matter .
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What are the islands of gray matter inside white matter called
Basal nuclei
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What is the cerebral cortex
our consicious mind
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Function of diencephalon
Links the brainstem with surrounding cerebral hemispheres
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What receptors does the hypothalamus have
Osmotic concentration, blood glucose and temp
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Function of thalamus
Directs attention to stimuli of interest and elicits emotional response
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Where is the pituitary gland
Dangles inferior to the hypothalamus by the infundibulum
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What does the pineal gland produce and what is its function
Melatonin which regulates circadian rhythm and reproductive functions
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What is circadian rhythm
physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a daily cycle
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What makes up the brainstem
Midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata
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Function of brainstem
Centres within produce programmed automatic behaviours necessary for survival
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Function of cerebellum
Processes inputs from cerebral motor cortex, various brainstem nuclei and sensory receptors, subconsciously provides patterns of learned skeletal muscle contraction
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What is the limbic system
Network of neurons that span large distance in the brain but work together
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Functions of limbic system
Emotional brain - makes us want to do tasks - recorgnises facial expressions - triggers emotional reaction to smells - Produces emotion induced illness - Allows emotion to override logic
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Function of reticular formation
Receives and integrates all incoming sensory input
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What is the spinal cord enclosed by
Single layer dura mater
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What is a spinal cord break above L1 referred to as
Paraplegia
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What is spinal cord break above C7 referred to as
Quadriplegia
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What does spinal cord break above C5 cause
Possible respiratory failure or death
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Where is the phrenic nerve located
Arises from spinal nerves C3, C4 and C5 and innervates the diaphragm
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Where is the sciatic nerve located
L4, L5, S1-S3
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What are spinal reflexes
Rapid predictable motor responses to a stimulus without processing by the brain
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Reflex model pathway steps 1 - 5
1 Receptor 2 Sensory neuron transmits afferent impulses to CNS 3 Integration Centre in CNS 4 Motor neuron conducts efferent impulses to effector organ 5 Effector
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Function of cranial reflexes
Check for damage to cranial nerves or associated processing centres in brain stem
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Two neurons in ANS motor pathway
The preganglionic neuron and the unmyelinated post-ganglionic neuron
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Function of preganglionic neuron
Runs from CNS to a ganglion
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Function of unmyelinated post-ganglionic neuron
Runs from ganglion to effector
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What do all parasympathetic neurons release
ACh
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Parasympathetic effect on heart, lungs, eye, gut and reproductive system
Decreases HR, constricts bronchioles, constricts pupil, increases motility and secretions, sexual arousal
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Sympathetic system effect on heart, lungs, eyes, gut, urinary, blood vessels, sweat glands, skeletal muscle, adipose tissue
Increases HR & strength of contractoin, dilates bronchioles increases resp rate and depth of breathing, dilates pupils, decreases motility and secretion, decreases blood flow to the kidneys, constriction or dilation, stimulates sweating, increases in glycolysis and muscle tone, lipolysis
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4 regions of spinal cord
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral
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What are anterior root branch
the axons of motor neurons
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what are posterior root branch
the axons of sensory neurons
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What are spinal ganglia
Contain cell bodies of sensory neuron that form the posterior root
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What two things do all spinal nerves have
White ramus communicans and gray ramus communicans
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Where does the posterior ramus supply to
skin/ muscles of back
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Where does anterior ramus supply to
Most of body wall, skin, limbs
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Describe form of gray matter
Butterfly/ H shape
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What are nerve plexuses
Interwoven network of nerve fibres
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Four major nerve plexuses
Cervical, brachial, lumbar, sacral
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What are neural reflexes
Rapid, automatic response to specific stimuli
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4 classifications of reflexes
development, motor response, complexity of neural circuit, site of information processing
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What are innate reflexes
Basic neural reflexes formed before birth, are genetically programmed i.e withdrawal, chewing
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What are acquired reflexes
Rapid, automatic learned motor patterns enhanced by repetition, i.e braking a car in emergency

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