Ch 12: Nervous System Overview Flashcards
Nervous system
Control hub
CNS
Brain and spinal cord
PNS
Nerves and ganglia outside brain and spinal column
PNS sensory division
Afferent division; Carries signals from dif receptors to CNS
Sensory division of PNS is divided into:
Visceral sensory division and
Somatic sensory division
Viscera
Body organs
Somatic
Skin, skeletal muscles, joints
PNS Motor division is divided into
Visceral motor division or autonomic nervous system which divides into sympathetic division and parasympathetic division
Somatic motor division
ANS
Aka: Visceral motor division
Carries signals from CNS to effector;
Involuntary control
Sympathetic or parasympathetic
PNS sympathetic division
Fight or flight
PNS parasympathetic division
Rest and digest
PNS somatic motor division
Response to stimuli ; carry signal from CNS to gland/muscle
Voluntary muscle contraction
Nerves
Bundle of nerve fibers axons that are wrapped in fibrous connective tissues
Ganglia
Knot-like swelling And nerve weather cell bodies of peripheral neurons are located
Function of the nervous system
Stimuli—>Sensory—>CNS—>Effector—> until homeostasis 
Neuron
Major cell of nervous system; Response to environmental changes by transmitting signals in passing on electrical activity
Glial cells function
Maintain integrity of neural tissue
Provide protection
Increase conduction of nerves
Anatomy of neuron
Cell body/soma
Dendrites
Axon
Axon hillock
Terminal
Myelin sheath
Note of Ranvier
Dendrites
Tree like projections by cell body where receive signals from stimuli
Axon
long tail like extension of cell where electrical signal passes