Chapter 1 and 2: Introduction and Nervous System Flashcards
What is kinesiology?
The study of human movement and mechanics
Which 2 functions of the nervous system are most important to strength and conditioning?
Processing sensory input
Coordinating movement
What’s involved with coordinating movements and processing sensory input?
1) Planning, initiating, and controlling movements
2) Smell, vision, taste, hearing
Receipt and interpretation of somatosensory information from the joints, ligaments, muscles, and skin
What are the two main types of CNS cells?
Neurons and glia
What are the neurons responsible for?
- Transmitting electrical impulses throughout the body
- Producing an action potential
What is an action potential?
A rapid and substantial depolarization of the neuron’s membrane
What are the 4 main types of neurons?
Motor neurons: Transmit commands from the brain or spinal cord to muscles and glands (i.e. fine and gross motor skills)
Sensory neurons: Transmit information into the brain and spinal cord to detect movement, sight, touch, sound, and smell
Interneurons: Create circuits between sensory or motor neurons, and transmit information between different parts of the brain (i.e. internet of the brain)
Dendrites: Branches of the cell body that act as receivers, collecting information from other neurons.
What does glia provide?
protection and nutrients to neurons
-Example: Myelin forms a fatty sheath around the axon of a nerve
What connects a motor neuron to a muscle or gland and releases acetylcholine when innervating a muscle?
A synapse
How does acetylcholine work?
Binds to receptors on the muscle that trigger contraction after being released from the parasympathetic nervous system
What are the following part of? Motor division, Sensory division, Somatic nervous system, Autonomic nervous system
The peripheral nervous system
What are the parts of the autonomic nervous system?
The sympathetic nervous system
The parasympathetic nervous system
What does the autonomic nervous system control?
Subconscious actions such as breathing, heart rate, and digestion
What does the somatic nervous system control?
Voluntary movement
Where does the sensory division of the PNS send information from and to?
From the organs to the CNS
What does the motor division stimulate? Where does it carry nerve impulses from?
Muscles and glands
The central nervous system