ANS (Detailed)

Question 1

What is the function of the ANS?

Answer 1

Maintains homeostasis

Integrates the activity of the automatic, unconscious ehaviors ongoing in the body

Controls activity of all involuntary muscles (smoooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands)

Question 2

What is the impulse structure of the ANS?

Answer 2

2 Neurons linked synaptically:

Preganglionic neuron (cell body in CNS, axon is a preganglionic axon/fiber that goes to a ganglion)

Postganglionic Neuron (cell body is in autonomic ganglion OUTSIDE of CNS, axon is postganglionic axon that projects to an EFFECTOR)

Question 3

What two parts is the ANS divided into?

Answer 3

Sympathetic and Parasympathetic