Chapter 3 Flashcards
Peripheral Nervous System
Divided into ANS and SNS
Made of cranial nerves and spinal nerves
Autonomic Nervous System
Communicates with internal organs and glands
Somatic Nervous System
Communicates with sense organs and voluntary muscles
What are the two divisions ANS ?
Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system
Help the body cope with demands like emotional stress and physical emegencies
Parasympathetic Nervous system
Slows the activity of most organs to conserve energy
calming
Nerve
Bundle of axons
Forebrain
Composed of the 2 hemispheres, the thalamus, and the hypothalamus
Longitudinal Fissure
Separates the 2 hemispheres
Grey Matter
Neuronal cell bodies
White matter
myelinated axons
Lissencephaly
gene linked brain malformation where folds are missing in cortex because neurons did not migrate properly during development
Frontal Lobe
Control of movement
Motor Cortex
controls voluntary movement
Broccas area
Speech production