Chapter 12 Flashcards
Function of nervous system
Maintaining homeostasis
Homeostatic mechanism
1: sensor (sensory)
2: control center (inter)
3: effector (motor)
Two branches of the nervous system
Central nervous
Peripheral nervous
Sections of the CNS
Brain
Spinal cord
(Interneurons)
Sections of the PNS
Sensory
Motor
Sections of motor
Somatic- voluntary
Autonomic- involuntary
Different autonomic
Parasympathetic- rest and digest
Sympathetic- fight or flight
Soma
Cell body
Dendrites
Receptors at the end of soma
Axon
Tail of cell
Axon hillock
Axon attaches to soma
Telodendria
Tail end of axion
Axon terminal
At the ends of the teledendria
Myelin sheaths
Cell like structure on axon
Nodes of ranvier
Spaces between myelin sheaths
Sensory neurons
Delivers information from receptors to the CNS
Motor neurons
Carry instructions from CNS to muscles
Interneurons
In the CNS, over 90% of neurons
Unipolar neurons
Off to the side of the axon