Intro to the Neuron Flashcards
Human nervous system divisions
CNS, PNS
CNS includes
Brain and spinal cords
PNS nerves includes
cranial, spinal
how many pairs of cranial nerves?
12
how many pairs of spinal nerves?
31
nucleus
nerve cells bodies in CNS
ganglion
nerve cell bodies in the PNS
divisions of PNS
somatic, autonomic
somatic function
innervates structures of body wall
autonomic functions
controls activities of smooth muscles, visceral glands, blood vessels and returns sensory information to the brain
divisions of ANS
sympathetic and parasympathetic
3 parts of the brain
cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem
2 parts of cerebrum
telencephalon, diencephalon
telencephalon
cerebral cortex, subcortical white matter, commissures, basal ganglia
diencephalon
thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus, subthalamus
2 parts of cerebellum
cerebellar cortex, cerebellar nuclei
3 pars of brain stem
midbrain, pons, medulla
2 parts of spinal cord
white matter, gray matter
white matter 3 parts
dorsal, lateral, anterior
somatic nervous system to
body surface and skeletal muscle
ANS to
internal organs and blood vessels, sweat glands and arrector pili muscles
afferent
sensory (incoming)
efferent
motor (outgoing)
somatic afferent
sensory input from body surfaces and skeletal muscles