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B3.1 - Nervous system Flashcards

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What does the nervous system do

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  • detects change in external environment and sends it to the brain
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what are the three stages of a nervous response?

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1) stimulus (change in environment)
2) sensory detector (detects stimulus)
3) effector (responds to an impulse)

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how to glands respond to a stimuli?

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release hormones

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where are receptor cells found?

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sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin)

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what do receptor cells do?

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change the stimuli to electric impulses to travel along neurone to CNS

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what is the CNS made of?

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brain and spinal cord

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how is the spinal cord protected?

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by the vertebrae column (backbone)

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what is the stimulus for skin?

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pressure, heat

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what is the role of sensory neurones?

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carry electric impulses from receptor cells to CNS

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what is the role of motor neurones?

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carry electric impulses from CNS to effectors

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what is the nervous system made of?

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  • brain
  • -spinal cord
  • neurones
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what are effectors?

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muscles or glands that respond to the change in environment

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what are synapses?

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gaps between neurones which allows nerve impulses to travel

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how do synapses work? (5)

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  • electrical impulse reaches the end of neurone
  • triggers the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters from vesicles
  • neurotransmitters diffuse (move down a concentration gradient) across the synapse.
  • neurotransmitters bind to receptors on the next neurone.
  • presence of the neurotransmitter causes the production of an electrical impulse in the next neurone.
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how do reflex actions help?

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allow us to respond to dangerous situations rapidly and automatically

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give three examples of reflex actions

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blinking, sneezing, flinching from a hot pan

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what is a stimulus?

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change in the environment to which the body needs to respond

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describe the response arc

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  • stimulus detected by a receptor
  • sensory neurone carries signal (through impulse) to CNS
  • motor neurone carries electrical impulse from the CNS to an effector.
  • effector (a muscle or gland) produces the response to the stimulus
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what can effect human reaction time?

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caffeine, exercise

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what is the role of the brain?

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processes all the information collected by body and produces a co-ordinated response

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medulla

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unconscious activities (breathing, heart rate)

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cerebellum

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muscle coordination (posture, balance, speech)

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cerebral cortex

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conscious thought (memory, language)

24
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Why is it hard to treat brain damage or problems in the brain?

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we don’t understand it enough, easy to make mistake and cause irreversible damage

25
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name some of the techniques used in neuroscience (3)

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  • fMRI
  • CT scans/electrical stimulation
  • MRI scanners
26
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what are the 4 different ways you can damage your PNS or CNS?

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  • injury
  • disease
  • genetic condition
  • ingesting a toxic substance (lead)
27
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what does damaging the nervous system cause?

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prevents impulse being passed through nervous system effectively

28
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effects of peripheral nervous system damage? (3)

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  • inability to detect pain
  • numbness
  • lack of co-ordination
29
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how can PNS damage be fixed? (2)

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  • limited ability to regenerate (minor nerve damage reveals), and symptoms gradually decrease
  • severe nerve damage treated through surgery
30
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how can nerve damage be treated through surgery?

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sections of nervous tissue can be drafted over damaged tissue (restoring electric conduction path for impulse)

31
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can the CNS regenerate

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no, unless corrected by surgery

32
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why is it difficult to repair the spinal cord?

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  • 1.5 cm in diameter

- so identifying and repairing damage to an individual nerve fibre without damaging others is difficult

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why is damage to the interior of the brain difficult to repair?

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it is difficult to diagnose, not many different treatments available as hard to test, as may kill person

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optic nerve

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Transmits visual information, in the form of electrical impulses, from the retina to the brain

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cornea

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The transparent frontal portion of the eye responsible for refracting light

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sclera

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The white of the eye; the opaque protective outer layer (all around the eye)

  • even in a cross-sectional diagram, would see it on outer edge
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retina

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  • Packed with receptor cells
  • sensitive to both the brightness
  • colour of light
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pupil

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A hole in the centre of the iris through which light passes to get to the retina

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iris

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controls pupil dilation and therefore quantity of light reaching retina

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ciliary muscles

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  • ring of smooth muscle

- change shape of lens (to focus light)

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suspensory ligaments

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  • ring of fibres, connect ciliary muscle to lens
42
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what is the process of changing lens shape in order to focus on an object at its distance from the eye changes?

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accommodation

43
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What happens when our eyes focus on a distant object?

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  • minor refraction of light rays
  • ciliary muscles relax
  • lens become flatter and thinner
  • suspensory ligaments tighten
44
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what controls how our eyes adapt to different light levels?

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iris

45
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what is hyperopia, and treatment?

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  • longsightedness
  • lens too thin
  • eyeball too short
  • light ends up behind retina
  • convex lens (fat one)
46
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what is myopia and treatment?

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  • short sightedness
  • lens too thick
  • eyeball too long
  • light in front of retina
  • concave lens (inwards),
47
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what causes colour blindness?

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  • defects in the photoreceptors
48
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focusing on a close object?

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contraction of the ciliary muscles and loosening of the suspensory ligaments.

49
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focusing on a far object?

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loosening of the ciliary muscles and contraction of the suspensory ligaments.

50
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as people get older, the lens in the eye becomes less flexible and cannot change shape easily.
This means they cannot focus clearly on near objects.
Explain why.

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  • lens cannot become fat

- light is focused behind retina

51
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what is a CT scan and what does it show?

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  • computed tomography
  • uses X-rays to create 3D images of inside of body
  • but cannot be used regularly (X-rays can cause cancers)
  • only show still images
52
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what is MRI scanning and how does it work? (3)

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  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • use powerful magnets to identify brain abnormalities
  • see which areas of brain are active
53
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what is fMRI scanning and how does it work?

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  • functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • produces images in real time by sending magnetic radiation
  • radiation bounces back and can see the properties/density of tissue ie. whether it is oxygenated or not
  • areas are active when increased blood flow during a specific activity
54
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how does electrical stimulation work?

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  • electrodes places inside animal/human brains

- electrodes transmit electrical impulses + result in movement

55
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draw a neurone out

label with - nucleus, cell body, axon, dendrites

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nucleus - little circle
cell body - area around little circle
axon - the body - long bit
dendrites - sticky out bits around cell body

55
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what does the cerebrum control?

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complex behaviour (memory/learning/personality/conscious thought)

OCR A GCSE Biology (B1-B3) (12 decks)

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