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What are sensory pathways?

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Information from sensory receptors are transmitted by sensory neurons to the CNS

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What are motor pathways

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Information from CNS are transmitted by motor neurons to skeletal muscles

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What is a description of a sensory neuron?

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Unipolar, cell body in middle of axon, long dendrites and shorter axons

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Description of relay neuron

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Multipolar, cell body in middle of neuron, short dendrites and short axons

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Description of motor neuron

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Multipolar, cell body at one end of neuron, short dendrites, long axons

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Where are sensory neurons found

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In the somatic division of the peripheral nervous system

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Where are motor neurons found

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In the CNS

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Where are the motor neurons found

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In the somatic division of the peripheral nervous system

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What is the function of the relay neuron

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To connect sensory and motor neurons in the CNS and process sensory information

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How fast can information travel through neurons

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At over 100 metres p/s

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What are pulses of electricity known as

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Action potentials

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Where do impulses start and end

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Start at the dendrites then finish at the axon terminal

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How do neurons transmit signals?

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Electrically

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What are chemical messengers between neurons called

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Neurotransmitters

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What is synaptic transmission?

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When neurotransmitters are released from one neurons and bind to the next neuron to pass information

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Synaptic transmission 1

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Vesicles in the presynaptic neuron release neurotransmitters into synaptic cleft

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Synaptic transmission 2

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Neurotransmitter binds to receptors in the post-synaptic neuron and activates them

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Synaptic transmission 3

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Excess neurotransmitter is taken up by the ore-synaptic neuron in a process called reuptake

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Synaptic transmission 4

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Enzymes are released to breakdown remaining neurotransmitter

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Synaptic transmission 5

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Vesicles are replenished with new and reused neurotransmitter

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What are neurotransmitters

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The chemical messengers that allow info to be passed across the synapse from one neuron to the next

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What is an example of a neurotransmitter

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GABA and noradrenaline

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What do excitatory neurotransmitters do?

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Increase communication between nerve cells and thus stimulates neural activity

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What does excitatory neurotransmitters allow into the post-synaptic neuron

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Positivity charged ions which will make action potential more likely

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What does positively charged ions in the post-synaptic neuron lead to?

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Depolarisation

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What do inhibitory neurotransmitters do

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Dampen communication between nerve cells and thus reduces neural activity

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What do inhibitory neurotransmitters allow for

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Negatively charged ions inside the post synaptic neuron which makes it less likely for the action potential to occur

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What do negative charged ions lead to

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Hyperpolarisation

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What is summation

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Refers to the net calculation of two types of potentials

30
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What is the endocrine system

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Provides the human body with a chemical system of communication via the blood stream

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What does the endocrine system work with

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The nervous system

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What is the function of the endocrine system

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To affect and organise the body’s entire physiological system, regulation bodily functions and behaviours

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What does the endocrine system consist of

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A network of glands

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What are glands

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Structures/organs which release hormones into the blood stream

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What is the role of the pituitary gland

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Controls the action of all other glands in the body

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What are hormones

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Chemical messengers released from glands

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Where do these hormones travel to

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Other glands or organs in distant locations throughout the body

38
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What different functions do hormones have?

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Examples: regulating growth, metabolism or reproduction.

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What organ release insulin

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The pancreas

40
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What releases testosterone

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Testes

41
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What is first triggered in the fight or flight response

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Hypothalamus

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What is activated by the hypothalamus

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Sympatho-medullary pathway

43
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What is then secreted by the adrenal edulla

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Adrenaline and noradrenaline

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What detects these secreted hormones

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Adrenergic receptors in target cells of the body

45
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What sort of changed happen in the fight or flight response

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Increased heartbeat, oxygen and glucose supply to the brain

46
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What happens to the pupils in the fight or flight response

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Dilate to increase awareness

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