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Divisions and Function of the Nervous System Flashcards

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What is the nervous system? DIAGRAM

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What are the two Nervous systems?

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Central and Peripheral

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What is the Central Nervous System ?

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  • Brain and spinal cord
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What is the Peripheral Nervous System?

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-Sensory neurons (messages from periphery to spinal cord nerves (messages from spinal cord to muscles/glands)

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What is the nervous system divided into?

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-SOMATIC
-AUTONOMIC

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What are the building blocks of the Nervous System

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  • Neurons
    -Oligodrebdrocytes (CNS)/ Schwann cells (PNS)
    -Astrocytes
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What are Neurons?

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–Many have a lipid sheath called myelin
-Highly specialised cells
-Responsible for communication (action

potential/neurotransmission)

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What is Oligodrendrocytes (CNS)/Schwannn cells (PNS)?

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-Produce myelin, facilitate transmission

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What are Astrocytes ? digram

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-Enable homeostasis, physical

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Glial cells support neurones (diagram)

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What are the 3 functional types of neurons?

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What are afferent or sensory neurones ?

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-(sense)-signals from the periphery to CNS

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What are motor neurons?

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What are autonomic neurons?

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What are interneurons ?

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What are the 3 main function types of neurons ?

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1) Peripheral nervous system - afferent or efferent neurones
2)Central nervous system -Inteneurons
3) morphological types-Unipolar, Bipolar, Multipolar

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What are morphological types of Neurons?

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-Unipolar
-Bipolar
-Multipolar

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What are unipolar neurons?

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What ate bipolar neurons?

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What are multipolar neurons?

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What is a nerve?

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What do neurons from ?

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-They form networks in order to communicate

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What is the site called where one neuron meets another?

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-At the Synapse

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What is the synapse?

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How do neurons form networks to communicate?

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  • Where one neuron meets another - synapse
  • Electrical action potential triggers release of chemical signal (neurotransmitter)
  • Neurotransmitters from the presynapse bind to postsynaptic receptors, triggering depolarisation of the postsynaptic neurone
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What are neurotransmitters?

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What is the Synapse ? diagram

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  • Very complex structure- maintains synaptic shape and function
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What is a receptor?

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What are the receptor types? diagram

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What does an inhibitory synapse involve?

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What does an excitatory synapse involve ? diagrams

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What is Synaptic Transmission?

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  • Synaptic structures are complex
  • Multiple synapses onto the same dendrite, can be excitatory or inhibitory
  • Whether the neurone fires or not is a sum of all the synaptic inputs
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What are inhibitory synapses? diagram

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What are Excitatory synapses? diagram

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What is the integration of multiple steps?

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What are the types of neurotransmitters ?

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-Excitatory neurotransmitters
-Inhibitory neurotransmitters
-Neuropeptides

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What are examples of Excitatory neurotransmitters ?

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Glutamate

-Monoamines

-Acetylcholine (mostly)

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What are examples of Inhibitory neurotransmitters?

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-GABA

-Glycine

-Endorphins

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What are examples of Neuromodulators ?

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-Neuropeptides

-Endocannabinoids

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What direction does Action Potential travel through the nerve cell? DIAGRAM

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The Brain and its protection- What is the Cranium ?

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-This is a layer of protection of which protects the brain and the spinal cord

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The Brain and its protection- What is the Meninges of the brain?

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-are the membranes covering the brain and the spinal cord

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What layers are present in order to protect the brain and spinal cord?

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-The Cranium
-The meninges (membranes)

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What is the Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)?

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  • Salty solution secreted into ventricles by choroid plexus
  • Consists of transporting epithelia (ependyma): ependymal cells
  • From ventricles to subarachnoid space around the brain and spinal cord
  • Protection
  • Physical: buoyancy and padding
  • Chemical: Stable ionic environment
  • Different to plasma
  • No blood cells little protein
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Labelled Diagram of the brain?

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How does blood supply around the brain?

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  • Internal carotid and vertebral arteries supply brain, form circle of Willis
  • Smaller arteries branch off, run over surface then penetrate brain
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Why does there need to be a large blood supply to the brain?

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  • Nervous tissue: high metabolic requirements
  • Requires high rates O2 and glucose
  • 15% of blood supply to brain
  • Very sensitive to Ischaemia
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Blood Supply to the Brain diagram?

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What is the The blood brain barrier (BBB)?

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-protects CNS

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How does the BBB protect the CNS?

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-Capillaries in the brain less permeable
– Exclude many molecules entering from the blood stream
- Protects brain from fluctuations in blood
- Endothelial cells line the capillary walls with tight junctions between them
- Processes from glial cells astrocytes form a barrier around blood vessels
- Some lipid soluble molecules can diffuse through cells
- Specific transporters allow certain molecules to access the brain
- The BBB is not complete in some brain areas
- Eg pituitary
- Vomiting centre in medulla

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What is Gray Matter of the brain?

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What is White Matter of the brain?

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Diagram of brain?

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What do bundles of axons do in the brain?

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  • connect different regions called tracts (often myelinated-lipid substance that covers some axons to speed up neurotransmission)
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What occurs at the spinal cord?

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-This is where information comes in to the CNS and directions are sent out
-Messages are sent to and from the brain

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What protects the spinal cord?

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-Vertebral Column

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What is the Vertebral Column?

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What are the 4 regions of the spinal cord?

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-Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral

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Diagram of spinal cord ?

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What do the sensory nerves do in the spinal cord?

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-enter via dorsal root

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What do the motor nerves do in the spinal cord?

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-leave via ventral root

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The segments of the 4 regions of the spinal cord do what?

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-Segments within these give rise to spinal nerves

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What are the spinal nerves?

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What is the (transverse/cross section) of the spinal cord?

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-Provide distinct patterns?

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Diagram of sensory nerve in and motor nerve out

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What are ascending tracts in the spinal cord?

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-they carry sensory information to the brain

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What are descending tracts in the spinal cord?

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-Carry commands to the motor neurons from the brain

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Ascending and Descending tracts diagram - spinal cord?

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What are axons?

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-they carry information to and from the brain

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Spinal cord: Peripheral nerves?

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What are the two main types of Peripheral nerves? spinal cord

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-spinal nerves
-cranial nerves

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What are Peripheral nerves:?

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-Nerves of which branch off the spinal cord

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What is the Spinal nerve?

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a mixed spinal nerve, which carries motor, sensory, between the spinal cord and the body.

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In humans, how many Paired peripheral nerves are there? and what are they?

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-31 pairs

-8 Cervical

-12 Thoracic

-5 Lumbar

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Approx how many neurons does the human brain have?

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-100,000,000,000

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What is the function of the brain stem?

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-involuntary functions, blood pressure, breathing, vomiting, sleep/arusal

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Diagram of brain and labels functions such as the -Hypothalamus?

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What is the Cerebrum of the brain?

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What is the Hypothalamus of the brain?

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What is the Corpus Callosum of the brain?

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What is the Ventricles of the brain?

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What is the Thalamus of the brain?

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What is the mid-brain?

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What is the cerebellum of the brain?

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What is the brain stem?

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What is the medulla of the brain?

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What is the Pons of the brain?

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What is the pituitary gland of the brain?

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What is the Cerebrum known as?

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-The cortex

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What is the cortex ?

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What are the 4 lobes of the cortex?

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-Frontal:
-Parietal:
-Occipital:
-Temporal:

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What is the -Frontal lobe of the cortex?

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-Reasoning, planning, speech, movement, problem solving

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What is the -Parietal lobe of the cortex?

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-Movement/ orientation recognition, stimuli perception

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What is the Occipital lobe of the cortex?

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-Visual processing

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What is the Temporal Lobe of the cortex?

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-Perceptions/recognition of auditory stimuli

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Diagram of where each lobe of the cortex are located?

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What is the cortex?

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2 hemispheres joined by corpus callosum

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What are the 2 hemispheres of the cortex?

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-Left Cerebral hemisphere
-Right Cerebral hemisphere

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What is the corpus callosum?

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Full cortex diagram?

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What are the Cerebrum: Sub cortical structures ?

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– Three clusters of nuclei (cell bodies)
- Basal ganglia: Control of movement
- Limbic system
- Amygdala: emotion and memory
- Hippocampus: Learning and memory (under temporal lobe)

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What are the 10 Cranial nerves (PNS)?

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What is most of the brain made up of?

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-Gilal cells?

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What are gilail cells?

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Synaptic structures enable what?

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-neurotransmitter release and detection

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Neurotransmitters can be?

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-excitatory or inhibitory

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What does the sum of all synaptic inputs determine?

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-The firing of neurone

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