Anatomy of the Nervous System Part 1 Flashcards
What does the central nervous system contain?
Brain, spinal cord
Three Components of the Central Nervous System
1) Sensory Organs
2) External signals (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch temperature)
3) Internal Signals (internal temperature,blood pressure,oxygenation and more
Autonomic Nervous System
Part of the nervous system that controls muscles of internal organs (such as the heart, blood vessels, lungs, stomach, and intestines) and glands (such as salivary glands and sweat glands)
Enteric Nervous System (ENS)
Intrinsic nervous system of the gastrointestinal tract
Structures of the Central Nervous System (4 points)
1) Cerebral hemispheres
2) Diencephalon: Connects the midbrain to the forebrain. Located deep within the brain and comprises the epithalamus, thalamus, subthalamus and hypothalamus
3) Cerebellam
4) Brain stem, spinal cord
Diencephalon
Connects the midbrain to the forebrain. Located deep within the brain and comprises the epithalamus, thalamus, subthalamus and hypothalamus
What does the central nervous system do?
Analysis and integration of sensory and motor information
Sensory Ganglia
Collection of cell bodies of neurons outside the CNS that transmit sensory impulses to and from the central nervous system
Sensory Nerves
Transmit information gained by our senses to the CNS
What are the two types of motor components in the PNS?
1) Visceral Motor System (ANS)
2) Somatic Motor System
Visceral Motor System( ANS)
Controls involuntary functions regulated by the activity of smooth muscle fibers, cardiac muscle fibers, and glands
What do motor nerves do?
Carry info from the CNS to outer parts of the body
What are effectors and examples of them?
An organ or cell that acts in response to a stimulus
Examples: Smooth muscles, glands, cardiac muscles, skeletal stride muscles
Pathway of Information to the Central Nervous System
Internal and external environment, sensory components send information to the central nervous system
Pathway of Information from the Central Nervous System
Central nervous system sends information to motor components, and then effectors respond to the stimulus
Function of the Frontal Lobe
Higher level executive functions, like attention, critical thinking, and impulse control, emotion, social interaction
Primary Motor Cortex
Responsible for the control of voluntary movement and is located in the Precentral gyrus
Parietal Lobe
Processes sensory information it receives from the outside world (touch,taste, temperature, pain)
What is located in the parietal lobe?
Postcentral gyrus
Central Sulcus
Divides the frontal and parietal lobes
Lateral Fissure
Separates the temporal lobe from the frontal and parietal lobes
Temporal Lobe
Processing affects/emotions, language, memory, perception and auditory processing information
What structures are found deep in the temporal lobe?
Hippocampus and Amygdala
Occipital Lobe
Processing visual information
Cerebellum
- Lower part of the brain
- Function: Regulation and control of movement and cognitive functions like lanuage processing and memory