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CH7 - Nervous System Flashcards

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CNS Functions

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  • Integration
  • Interpret incoming sensory information
  • Issues outgoing instructions
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CNS Organs

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  • Brain
  • Spinal Cord
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PNS Organs

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  • Spinal Nerves
  • Cranial Nerves
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4
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Carry impulses to and from spinal cord

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Spinal nerves

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Carry impulses to and from brain

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Cranial nerves

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PNS Functions

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  • Cranial and spinal nerves link CNS and rest of body
  • Perform motor and sensory function
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Carries general sensory signals from muscles, bones, joints, skin and special sense organs

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Somatic sensory division

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Carries signals from organs

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Visceral Sensory division

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Carry impulses from the sensory receptors to the CNS

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Sensory (afferent) division
- Afferent Arrives at brain

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Nerve fibers that carry information away from the CNS

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Motor (efferent) division
- efferent exits brain

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Carries signals to skeletal muscles

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Somatic Motor Division

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“Fight or flight” division

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Sympathetic
“E” division

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“Rest and digest” division

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Parasympathetic
“D” division

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14
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Nervous tissue is made of 2 types of cells

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  • Neurons
  • Neuroglia
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15
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Conduct nerve impulses

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Neurons

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16
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Don’t conduct nerve impulses

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Neuroglia

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17
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Anchor neurons to blood capillaries as barrier against harmful substances

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Astrocytes

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Phagocytes that monitor neuron health and dispose of debris or bacteria

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Microglia

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Cilia circulate cerebrospinal fluid through CNS brain and spinal cord as protective cushion

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Ependymal Cells

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20
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Produce myelin sheaths around CNS

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Oligodendrocytes

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21
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Produce myelin sheaths around PNS

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Schwann Cells

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22
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Protect neuron cell bodies in PNS

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Satellite Cells

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Metabolic center, contains nucleus, cytoplasm, and all organelles except centrioles

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Cell Body

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Conduct impulses toward cell body

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Dendrites

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Conducts impulses away from cell body, connected at axon hillock

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Axon

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Allow communication to flow from one neuron to the next

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Axon Terminals

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27
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Protects, insulates, and speeds up nerve impulses, with gaps between Schwann cell production areas called Nodes of Ranvier

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Myelin Sheaths

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Gray Matter

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White Matter

30
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Carry impulses from the central nervous system to viscera and muscles and glands

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Motor (efferent) neurons

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Cell bodies located in CNS; connect sensory and motor neurons

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Interneurons

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Many extensions from the cell body

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Multipolar neurons

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One dendrite and one axon

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Bipolar neurons

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Short single process leaving cell body

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Unipolar neurons

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Sensory Receptors of Skin

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  • Pain
  • Temperature
  • Light touch
  • Deep pressure
  • Proprioception
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Clusters of cell bodies in the CNS

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Collections of cell bodies outside the CNS in the PNS

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Bundles of nerve fibers in CNS

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Bundles of nerve fibres in PNS

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Resting membrane is polarized

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Action Potential 1: Neuron at Rest

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Stimulus initiates local depolarization

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Action Potential 2: Stimulus

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Depolarization and generation of an action potential

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Action Potential 3: Depolarization

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Propagation of the action potential

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Action Potential 4: Propagation

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Restoring the inside of the membrane to a negative charge

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Action Potential 5: Repolarization

45
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Initial ionic conditions restored

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Action Potential 6: Reset to Rest

46
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When the action potential reaches the axon terminal…

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the electrical charge opens calcium channels

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Somatic Reflexes

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  • Reflexes that stimulate the skeletal muscles
  • Involuntary; skeletal muscle is normally under voluntary control
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Autonomic Reflexes

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Regulate the activity of smooth muscles, the heart, and glands

49
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Simple Reflex Arcs

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  1. Receptor picks up stimulus
  2. Sensory afferent neuron sends info
  3. Interneuron acts as integration center
  4. Sends motor neuron to effector
  5. Effector is usually muscle
50
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4 Brain Divisions

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  1. Cerebral hemispheres (Cerebrum)
  2. Diencephalon
  3. Brain stem
  4. Cerebellum
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Gyri and Sulci

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Ridges and Grooves

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3 basic parts of Cerebrum

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  • Cortex of gray matter
  • Internal area of white matter
  • Basal nuclei
53
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Outer layer in the cerebral cortex composed mostly of neuron cell bodies

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Gray Matter

54
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Fiber tracts deep to the gray matter

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White Matter

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Executive functions (critical thinking, reasoning)

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Frontal Lobe
- Sends impulses to skeletal muscles

56
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Primary somatic sensory area

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Parietal Lobe
- Receives impulses from the body’s sensory receptors

57
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Interprets visual information

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Occipital Lobe

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Interprets auditory and olfactory information

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Temporal Lobe

59
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3 Structures of Diencephalon

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  1. Thalamus
  2. Hypothalamus
  3. Epithalamus
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Hypothalamus

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  • Helps regulate body temperature
  • Controls water balance
  • Regulates metabolism
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Parts of Brain Stem

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  • Midbrain
  • Pons
  • Medulla oblongata
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Protection of CNS

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  • Scalp and skin
  • Skull and vertebral column
  • Meninges
  • Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
  • Blood-brain barrier
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Tough outermost layer

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Dura Mater

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Middle layer

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Arachnoid layer

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Internal Layer

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Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)

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Formed by the choroid plexus (capillaries in the ventricles of the brain)

67
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Blood-brain barrier is useless against

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  • Respiratory gases
  • Alcohol
  • Anesthesia
68
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How many PNS cranial nerves

69
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How many PNS spinal nerves

BIOL1170 - Anatomy & Physiology I (3 decks)

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