B3 Flashcards

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What components make up the structure of a nervous system?

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🟡CNS(brain + spinal chord)
🟡sensory, motor, relay neurones
🟡receptors and effectors
🟡synapses

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What is a neuron?

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A nerve cell, carrying impulses from one component to another

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Describe a sensory neurone:

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Carries electrical impulses from receptor cells to the CNS
🟣cell body in the middle of the cell
🟣ends surrounded with dendrites (to connect neurones)
🟣axon surrounded by mycelin

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Describe a motor neurone

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Carry’s an electrical impulse from the CNS to an dendrites
🟣cell body near dendrites
🟣ends have dendrites
🟣axon surrounded with mycelin

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What do relay neurones do?

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Carry an impulse from a sensory neurone to a motor neurone

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What is a synapse and how does it work?

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The gap impulse two nerve cells(neurones)
🟡electrical current turned into chemical current
🟡chemical (neurotransmitter) diffuses across the gap
🟡turned back into an electrical impulse

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What are receptors?

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Cells that detect a stimuli, creating an electrical impulse

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What are effectors?

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Muscles / glands that carry out the response

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Describe how the nervous system produces a co ordinated response

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🔴Can go to many parts of the body at once (many different motor neurones at once
🔴many different sensory receptors are able to bring in the impulse at once

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Describe a reflex arc

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Stimulus
Receptor
Sensory neuron
Spinal cord (relay neuron)
Motor neuron
Effector

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How is the reflex arc adapted to serve its function?

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Instead of going through the whole CNS(brain + spinal chord), it only goes to spinal chord
🟣making it fast and automatic
* to protect the body from danger

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Can signals move along a neurone in any direction ?

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No, an electrical impulse can travel in one direction only

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Describe the cornea

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🟣transparent outer layer
🟣refracts light onto the retina

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Describe the iris

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🟣coloured ring muscle
🟣controls how much light enter the eye

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Describe the pupil

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Central hole allowing light to come into the eye

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Describe the lens

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🟣transparent biconvex disk
🟣focuses light onto the retina

17
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Describe the retina

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Tissue at the back of the eye, containing photoreceptors (convert tissues to electrical signals)

18
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Optic nerve

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Carries impulses between the eye and the brain

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Ciliary body
What happens when it contracts?

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🟡Muscular tissue that Alters the shape of the lens
*If it contracts it gets closer to the lens, making it fatter(short sight), this means the suspensory ligaments slack

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Suspenseful ligaments

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🔵Ligament tissue connecting ciliary muscle to eye
* does the opposite to ciliary muscle

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Describe short sightedness and how to overcome

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🔵eyeball is too long
🔵image focused in front of the retina
🟢concave lens in glasses

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Describe long sightedness and how to overcome

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🔵the eyeball is too short
🔵image focussed behind the retina
🟢convex lens in glasses

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What happens to lens to focus on nearby and far objects?

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🟣nearby, lens gets fatter , ciliary muscle contracts
🟣far away, let’s goes thinner , ciliary muscle relaxes

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Describe colourblindness and how to overcome

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🟣inability to tell the difference between different colours die to lack/defects in receptors in retina
🟣tinted lenses

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What is the function of the brain?
🧠Processed all the information collected by receptors 🧠 produced a co ordinated response using all this
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What is the function of the cerebrum
Learning, memory, personality and conscious thought 👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍🎤💭🤔
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What is the function of the cerebellum?
Controls posture, balance 🧍‍♀️⚖️
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What is the function of the medulla?
Heart rate and breathing rate ❤️😮‍💨
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What is the function of the hypothalamus?
Regulates temperature and water balance 🌡💦
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What is the function of the pituitary?
Stores and releases hormones
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What are some of the difficulties in investing brain function?
🔴case studies are hard to obtain and interpret- not really much that we know about the brain 🔴it’s unethical to ask some patients as they are not in the right ‘state’
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What are the limitations in treating damage and disease in the brain and other parts of the nervous system?
🟢CNS cells do not have the ability to regenerate and repair 🟢as it is protected by the skull, it is difficult to access during surgery 🟢irreversible damage to surrounding tissue