Nervous System(intro): anna edited Flashcards
What are the different parts of the CNS and PNS
CNS: brain + spinal chord, PNS: Nerves (Cranial and Spinal)
What are the 3 general functions of the nervous system? What does each one do?
Sensory, Integrative and Motor.
-Sensory: Detect changes and sends those changes as messages to the brain
-Integrative: Processing and prioritization of information; may generate motor response.
-Motor: Sends info to motor effectors
Organization of the sensory system
Afferent, Somatic and Autonomic.
-Afferent: Signals travel from tissue to CNS
-Somatic: sensory: Bones and Detect touch, temp, pain etc.
-Autonomic: sensory: Unconscious stuff, (visceral/organs)
Organization of Motor System
Efferent, Somatic, Autonomic.
-Efferent: Signals travel from CNS to effectors
-Somatic: Send signals to skeletal muscle
-Autonomic: Send info to viscera
What are the traits of the neuron?
-Excitable to electrical signals.
-Transmit signals to other cells.
-Secrete neurotransmitters.
-Neurons live for very long and don’t reproduce
Structure of Neuron
Dendrites, cell body and axons
Dendrite (definition)
Short branches that detect stimuli
Axon (definition) and parts
Long branches that release neurotransmitter.
-Axon Hillock
-Axon Collaterals
-Synaptic knob/terminals
-Synaptic vesicles
Nerve (definition)
Bundle of axons from brain to spinal chord
transmit impulses to brain or spinal chord
Single axon wrapped in what
endoneurium
Multipolar
- One axon extends from cell body
- Most common.
unipolar
- One axon extends from cell body, - - Axon splits into central and peripheral processes
Bipolar
- One dendrite and one axon extend from cell body,
- sensory neurons for special senses
sensory neurons
Afferent and Unipolar
Interneurons
- Receive and process information
- Most common
- Multipolar
- CNS
Motor neurons
Efferent and Multipolar
Neuroglia
-Support and protect neurons
Astrocyte
- CNS Neuroglia
- helps form the blood brain barrier
Ependymal Cell
- assists in production and circulation of cerebrospinal fluid
- CNS
Microglial cell
- CNS
- phagocytic cell
oligodendrocyte
- Myelinates CNS axons
- CNS
Satellite cell
- PNS
- electrically insulates PNS cell bodies
Neurolemmocyte
- myelinates PNS axons
- PNS
Fascicles
- groups of axons
- wrapped in perineurium