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Chapter 5.1.3: Neuronal communication Flashcards

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1
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What’s one difference between relay neurones and motor neurones?

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Relay neurones don’t have a myelinated sheath as faster transmission is not needed (Schwann cells minimise electrical loss)

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What do the specialised cells on receptor organs do?

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Detect energy changes in the surroundings - known as energy transducers

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What are the axon and the axon hillock?

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Axon = carries nervous impulses away from the cell body
Axon hillock = specialised region of tissue which triggers the production of nervous impulses

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How are neurons specialised to their function?

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They’re long so they can transmit messages over long distances, they’re surrounded by a fatty sheath to insulate neurones and they have numerous dendrites to connect to other neurones

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What is the name of the receptor cell for touch and what form of energy is it received in?

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Meissners corpuscles - kinetic

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What is the name of the receptor cell for smell and what form of energy is it received in?

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Olfactory cells - chemical

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What is the name of the receptor cell for temperature and what form of energy is it received in?

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Ruffins ending - thermal

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What is the name of the receptor cell for pressure and what form of energy is it received in?

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Pacinian corpuscles - kinetic

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What is the name of the receptor cell for placement of limbs and what form of energy is it received in?

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Proprioceptors - mechanical displacement

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What is the name of the receptor cell for balance and what form of energy is it received in?

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Semicircular canals hair cells - kinetic

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What’s the resting potential of the neurone’s membrane?

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-65mv

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Define spatial summation

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two or more presynaptic neurones converge and release their NT at the same time onto the same post synaptic membrane

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Define temporal summation

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two or more action potentials arrive in quick succession from the same presynaptic neurone

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In six steps, outline the process of synaptic transmission

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  1. action potential arrives = voltage gated calcium ion channels open
  2. Influx of calcium ions = presynaptic vesicles to move toward the membrane and fuse - releasing NT into synaptic cleft.
  3. NT diffuses across cleft and binds to subunits that bind to the receptor - opens sodium ion channels on post synaptic membrane.
  4. Sodium ions flood into post synaptic membrane - excitatory post synaptic membrane.
  5. NT broken down so that continual simulation of the PSM does not happen by enzyme
  6. Broken down NT re enter presynaptic membrane by diffusion - using ATP they are recombined in secretory vesicles
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Define inhibitory

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Hyperpolarise post-synaptic membrane - prevents AP being generated

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Define excitatory

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Depolarise post- synaptic membrane - trigger AP

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Describe the 3 ways that drugs and poisons affect the synapse

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  1. Blocking NT receptors so AP’s aren’t generated
  2. Preventing the removal of NT from the synaptic cleft
  3. Destroying enzymes which breakdown the NT
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Name the poison obtained from plants, acting as a muscle relaxant and blocking Acetylcholine receptors

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Curane

19
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How does cocaine affect the Nervous system?

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Causes Noradrenaline to persist in synaptic cleft - blocks reuptake channels

20
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How does Sanin affect the Nervous system?

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Destroys enzymes, inhibits Acetylcholinesterase - Acetylcholine builds up in cleft
Death occurs by asphyxiation

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What is the name of the toxic chemical that is used in rat poison, destroys Acetylcholinerase - leading to continual AP’s generated = convulsions = death?

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Strychnine

22
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Name the 6 components of the nervous system

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CNS, peripheral, autonomic, somatic, parasympathetic, sympathetic

23
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What are the 2 components of the CNS?

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Brain and spinal cord

24
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What does the peripheral nervous system do?

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Consists of sensory and motor neurones to carry impulses from receptors to CNS and impulses from CNS to effectors

25
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What’s one difference between the somatic and autonomic nervous system?

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Somatic = voluntary and autonomic = usually involuntary

26
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What state should the body be in when resting/digesting?

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Parasympathetic

27
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What state does the sympathetic nervous system cause the body to be in?

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Fight/flight

28
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What’s the name of the membrane that surrounds the brain and what’s its purpose?

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Meninges membrane - secretes cerebral spinal fluid to act as a shock absorber

29
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What’s the purpose of neurones?

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To transmit action potentials

30
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Give an example of a glial cell

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Schwann cells

31
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What NT is used in the parasympathetic nervous system?

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Acetylcholine

32
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What two NTs are used in the sympathetic nervous system?

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Noradrenaline and acetylcholine

33
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Where in the spinal cord do nerves leave from when the sympathetic nervous system is activated

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all the way down

34
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Where is the medulla oblongata and what does it do?

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Top of the spinal cord - Part of the brain that regulates breathing and HR

35
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How does the medulla oblongata carry out its function?

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Sends out messages via the autonomic nervous system which cause the diaphragm and intercostal muscles to contract and relax regularly

36
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What is the cerebellum involved in?

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control and coordination of movement and posture

37
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Where does the cerebellum receive information from?

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CNS and sensory neurones

38
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What does the diencephalon consist of?

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Hypothalamus and thalamus

39
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What does the hypothalamus do and how?

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connected to pituitary gland - controls temperature - sends messages to the autonomic nervous system to control shivering and sweating

40
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Stating the stimulus, receptor, CNS response, effector and response, describe what happens to prevent damage to the eye

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Stimulus - something touches the eye, receptor - sensory nerve endings in cornea, CNS - sensory neurone synapses with a relay neurone and then a motor neurone, effector - Orbicularis oculi muscles contract to shut the eyelid, response - eyelids close to protect eye

41
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Stating the stimulus, receptor, CNS response, effector and response, describe what happens when testing the knee reflex

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Stimulus - quad muscles stretched, receptor, stretch receptors, CNS - sensory neurone synapses directly with a motor neurone , effector - quads contract, response - lower leg straightens

42
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What part of the brain do simple reflex arcs involve?

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The unconscious part

43
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Give three ways that reflexes benefit our survival

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They’re innate, fast, involuntary

44
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What are three physical responses of fight/flight?

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Increase in HR/stroke volume, constricting of blood vessels near skin/digestive tract and relaxation of smooth muscle

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