Autonomic Nervous System Flashcards
The autonomic nervous system is called the
Visceral nervous system
The ANS is regulated…
Below conscious level, without conscious effort
The visceral sensory components detect…
Stimulus associated with blood vessels and internal organs
The autonomic motor, visceral motor controls
Cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and glands
The ANS regulates….
Heart function, BP, body temperature, respiratory rate, sweating, and digestive function
The autonomic motor system has
2 divisions, parasympathetics and sympathetics
The sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions have
Presynaptic neurons in the CNS
Presynaptic neurons in the CNS send their axons into the
PNS to synapse with post syntactic neuron
The sympathetics and parasympathetics are a
Two neuron relay to the target
Pre synaptic snd post synaptic neurons synapse at the
Ganglia
Sympathetics and parasympathetics go to the
Same targets (cardiac muscle, smooth muscle and glands)
Sympathetics and parasympathetics have what kind of effect on their targets
Opposite
Somatic motor systems travel to
Skeletal muscles
Autonomic motor systems takes how many neurons
2
The somatic motor system always causes an
Extinction of the target
The autonomic motor system can cause
Excitation or inhibition of the target
Autonomic motor system begins with the
Presynaptic neuron, ganglia, and then post synaptic neuron
The axons of the somatic motor neurons leave the
CNS and travel to the skeletal muscles directly
Somatic motor neurons release what neurotransmitter
Acetylcholine
Somatic motor neurons only excite their
Targets
The axons of pre synaptic sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons leave the
CNS to meet with post synaptic neurons in the ganglia and release acetylcholine
The axons of post synaptic sympathetic neurons release
norepinephrine
The axons of post synaptic parasympathetic neurons travel to
Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, or glands and release acetylcholine