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What is the foundation of our conscious personalities and behavior?

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The nervous system

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What are the two systems of the nervous system?

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Nervous system
Endocrine system

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What does the endocrine system do?

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Send chemical signals (hormones) through blood

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What does the two systems do? (Endocrine and nervous)

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Detect changes in an organ and modify the activity of other organs

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How does the nervous system carry out actions

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Receive info about changes in the body and external environment
Process this info and determine the appropriate response
Issue commands to cells that carry out the response

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How does the nervous system perceive and respond to environments?

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Neurons (nerve cells)

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What are the properties of the neurons?

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Excitability, conductivity, secretion

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Excitability

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Respond to environmental changes (stimuli) at receptors

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Conductivity

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Responds to stimuli by electrical signals (impulses)

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Secretion

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At the end of the synapse or receptor
Neurons will secrete neurotransmitters that cross the gap and stimulates the next neuron

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Exteroceptors

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Respond to stimuli that originate from outside the body affecting skin, mucous membranes, or sense organs by touch, pressure or sound

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Interoceptors (visceroceptors)

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Respond to stimuli originating from within the body
Related to the function of internal organs

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Proprioceptors

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Sensory receptor that receives stimuli from within the body
Especially one that responds to position and movement

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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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Nerves that connect the CNS to different organs
1. Cranial nerves: 12 pairs
2. Spinal nerves: 36 pairs

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Sensory Nerves

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Afferent
Takes information to the CNS

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Motor nerves

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Efferent
Takes orders from the CNS to the structures

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Spinal nerve

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Formed by a ventral (motor) and dorsal (sensory)root

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Ventral root

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Cell bodies of motor nerves (pure efferent)

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Dorsal Root

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Cell bodies of sensory nerves (pure afferent)

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How is the PNS divided?

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Somatic and Visceral (autonomic) nervous system

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Somatic Nervous System

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Structures we have control over
Skin, bone, joints, skeletal muscles
Somatic sensory and somatic motor nerves make up one nerve wrapped around each other

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Visceral/ Autonomic Nervous System

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Regulates motor acts (not essential)
Structures we have no control over (Organs)
Efferent nerves are 2 nerves connecting @ ganglion

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How is the Autonomic system divided?

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Parasympathetic and Sympathetic

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Parasympathetic
Acting all the time and doesn't run everywhere (rest and digest) Originates from cranio-sacral (brain/ SC segments1-3) Synapse @ wall of target effector organ
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How many cranial nerves have parasympathetic fibers?
4/12 Oculomotor (C3) Facial (C7) Glossopharyngeal (C9) Vagus (C10)
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Sympathetic
Emergency system for quick rigorous actions (fight, fright or flight) Runs everywhere Cardiac m., glands, smooth m. Synapse @ paravertebral or prevertebral ganglion
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Sympathetic trunk
Extra spinal tract that carries sympathetic nerves
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Nuclei (Nucleus)
Collection of cell bodies within the CNS
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Ganglion
Collection of cell bodies outside the CNS Communication taking place between the 1st and 2nd nerve Where synapse takes place
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How do post synaptic autonomic nerves run?
1. Head, abdomen, pelvis: with arteries 2. Abdominal wall, body cavities, neck and limbs: with spinal nerves 3. Thorax: runs by itself
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Paravertebral
Ganglion close to the vertebral column Cervicothoracic, sympathetic trunk, middle cervical and cranial cervical
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Prevertebral
Ganglion away from the vertebral column Left celiac, cranial mesenteric and caudal mesenteric
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Sympathetic preganglionic/ synaptic nerves
Sitting and waiting for the synapse @ prevertebral or paravertebral gang NT: ACH
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Sympathetic post ganglionic/ synaptic nerves
Neuronal cell bodies sitting on the autonomic ganglia Synapse @ target organ/ tissue NT: norepinephrine
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Where are all cell bodies of sympathetic nerves located?
At the thoracolumbar region
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Rami comunicants
Sympathetic nerves that leave the thoracolumbar region and run with the ventral root to the trunk Gray- postsynaptic, unmyelinated White- presynaptic, myelinated
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Ansa Subclavia
All nerves coming out of the thorax come out here Takes pre and post synpatic nerves
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Pathway to the head
1. Ventral root 2. Spinal nerve 3. White rami communicants 4. Sympathetic trunk 5. Bypass the cerival sympathetic trunk and ansa subclavia 6. Synapse @ cranial cervical ganglion 7. Post ganglionic fibers run with internal carotid artery
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What happens after the synapse at the cranial cervical ganglion
The sympathetic fibers will join to form the vertebral nerve Now known as post synaptic nerves/ fibers
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Pathway to the neck
1. Ventral root 2. Spinal nerve 3. White rami communicants 4. Sympathetic trunk 5. Synapse @cervicothoracic ganglion 6.Vertebral Nerve 7. Gray rami communicants 8. Spinal nerve 9. Targets organs (smooth muscles and skin)
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Pathway to the thorax
1. Ventral root 2. Spinal nerve 3. White rami communicants 4. Sympathetic trunk 5. Synapse @ middle cervical ganglion or cervicothoracic ganglion 6. Post syn. path: cardiosympathetic nerves from ansa subcavia 7.Post syn. nerves run by itself
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Pathway of the limbs/ body wall
1. Ventral root 2. Spinal nerve 3. White rami communicants 4. Synaptic trunk 5. Synapse @ sympathetic trunk ganglia 6. Gray rami communicants 7. Spinal nerve (ventral or dorsal) 8. skin and smooth muscles
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Pathway of the abdomen
1. Ventral root 2. Spinal nerve 3. White rami communicants 4. Sympathetic trunk 5. Splanchnic n. 6. Synapse @ celiacomesenteric gang (prevertebral) 7. Post syn runs with arteries (nerve plexus on abdominal arteries supplying organs)
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Pathway of the pelvis
1. Ventral root 2. Spinal nerve 3. White rami communicants 4. Sympathetic trunk 5. Down the lumbar splanchnic nerve 6. Synapse @ caudal mesenteric gang 7. Post syn. will run to right or left hypogastric nerve, pelvic plexus branches to pelvic viscera
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How many sympathetic spinal nerves are there?
1. Cervical spinal nerves: 8 2. thoracic spinal nerves: 13
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What is the visceral motor efferent influenced by?
Spinal cord Brain stem Hypothalamus
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What portions of the nervous system controls visceral functions of the body?
Blood pressure Cardiac function GIT Urinary bladder Sweating, etc.
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What does the sympathetic system supply?
1. Glands and smooth muscles of the skin 2. Thoracic, abdominal and pelvic viscera 3. Head structures: salivary glands and iris (smooth) 4. Smooth muscles of blood vessels 5. Cells of adrenal medulla
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How does ANS differ from the rest of the PNS?
By having a second neuron interposed between the CNS and the innervated structure
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What will happen if the somatic nerves to the skeletal mm are served?
Its nonfunctional in the absence of innervation
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What does the sympathetic stimulation result in?
Increased HR and blood glucose Decreased bowl motility Dilation of the iris
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Parasympathetic long preganglionic fibers
Ganglia at target organ Short postgang fibers NT: at both synapses is ACH
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What does the parasympathetic stimulation result in?
Maintenance Response: Decreased HR Increase secretion of glands of GIT Constriction of pupil
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T/F: Distribution of parasym. system is more limited than the sym. system
True
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T/F Parasympathetic fibers supply the skin, sweat glands, pilorector m or cutaneous blood vessels
False Parasym. fibers don't supply any of those structures
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What is the exception to what parasym. fibers suppy?
Penile arteries
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Adrenal Medulla
Modified sympathetic ganglion When stimulated it secreted epinephrine
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Vagus Nerve (C10)
Supplies thoracic and abdominal viscera Goes from the vagosympathetic trunk to thorax
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Where does the vagus nerve split
At the middle cervical ganglion to split off and run by itself
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When does the vagus turn into the laryngeal nerves?
1. Left laryngeal nerve leaves around the aortic arch 2. Right recurrent laryngeal nerve leave around the right subclavian artery
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Parasympathetic Path
Presynpatic path: Vertebral branch of S1 -S3 Synapse @ pelvic ganglia at pelvic plexus
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Cholinergic fibers
Fibers that secrete Ach Include pregang of symp and para symp and postgang of parasym
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Adrenergic fibers
Fibers the secrete norepinephrine Include symp post gang
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Sympathomimetic drugs
Drugs that stimulate the symp. system at the neuroeffector junction
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Parasympathomimetic drugs
Drugs that stimulate the parasympathetic system at the neuroeffector junction Have a "muscarinic effect"
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What do drugs that have a "nicotinic effect" stimulate?
The 2nd neurons of both symp. and parasymp systems at the autonomic ganglia
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What drugs act on alpha and beta receptors?
Sympathetic drugs
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How do effectors with alpha receptors respond?
By contraction of smooth muscles "increase BP"
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How do effectors with beta receptors respond?
By relaxation of smooth muscles of blood vessels that supply the heart
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Pathway to dilator mm of iris
1. Pre gang: neuronal cell bodies located at T1-T13 2. Rami communicants 3. Thoracic symp. trunk 4. Cervial- symp trunk 5. Cr. cervical gang 6. Post gang fibers: with internal coratid artery to dialtor iris mm.
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What happens if the pathway to dialtor mm of iris is interupted?
Horner's syndrome
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In healthy animals, what does the symp. trunk from the cranial cervical ganglion do?
Supply orbital muscle (eyeball protruded) and dilator of pupil Keep 3rd eyelid retracted Keep palpebral fissue open
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How is the dilatation of pupil initiated?
Fear, excitement or pain (atropin)
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What are the signs of Horner's syndrome?
C6-T2 (brachial plexus) avulsion can happen Leads to loss of symp. innervation of the eye
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What are the results of Horner's syndrome?
Enopthalmus (sunken globe of the eye) Profusion of the 3rd eyelid Miosis (constriction of the pupil) Ptosis (small droopy eye opening)
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Sciatic Nerve
Going into the hamstring Motor because it has more motor fibers than sensory

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