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Nervous system classifications are based on!

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  • Structures (structural classification)
  • Activities ( functional classification)
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Structural Classification:

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  • Central Nervous system (CNS)
  • Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
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Organs of the Central Nervous system:

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  • Brain
  • Spinal cord
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Function of the Central Nervous system:

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  • Integration
  • Interprets
  • Issues
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command center

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Integration

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Incoming sensory information

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Interprets

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Outgoing instructions

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Issues

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

Nerves extending from the brain and spinal cord:

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*Spinal nerves
*Cranial nerves

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Carry impulses to and from the spinal cord

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Spinal nerves

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Carry impulses to and from the brain

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Cranial nerves

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Function:
Serve as communication lines among sensory organs, the brain cord and glands or muscles

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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Functional classification:

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*Sensory (afferent) division
* Motor (efferent) division

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Nerve fiber that carry information to the central Nervous system

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Sensory (afferent) division

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Two sensory in the Sensory (afferent) division:

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  • Somatic Sensory
  • Visceral sensory
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Fibers carry information from the skin, skeletal muscles, and joints

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Somatic Sensory

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Fibers carry information from visceral organs

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Visceral sensory

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Nerve fibers that carry impulses away from the central nervous system organs to effector organs (muscles and glands)

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Motor (efferent) division

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Two subdivisions of the motor division:

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  • Somatic Nervous system
  • Autonomic nervous system
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Subdivisions of the Motor division:

Voluntary

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Somatic Nervous system

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Subdivisions of the Motor division:

Involuntary

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Autonomic nervous system

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Consciously (voluntarily) controls skeletal muscle

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Somatic nervous system

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Automatically controls smooth and cardiac muscles and glands

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Autonomic nervous system

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Autonomic nervous system further divided into:

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  • Sympathetic
  • Parasympathetic
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Support cells in the CNS are grouped together as?

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Neuroglia

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General functions of neuroglia:

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  • Support
  • Insulate
  • Protect neurons
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Nervous tissue is made up of two principal cell types:

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  • Supporting cells (called neuroglia, glial cells, or glia
  • Neurons
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CNS glial cells:

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*astrocytes
* Microglia
* Ependymal cells
* Oligodendrocytes

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Abundant, star- shaped cells

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Astrocytes

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The most abundant and versatile neuroglia

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Astrocytes

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Spiderlike phagocytes

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Microglia

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Dispose of debris

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Microglia

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32
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Lines cavities of the brain and spinal cord

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Ependymal cells

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Cilia assists with circulation of cerebrospinal fluid

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Ependymal cells

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34
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Wrap around nerve fibers in the central nervous system

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Oligodendrocytes

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Produce myelin sheaths

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Oligodendrocytes

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Functions of the nervous system:

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  • Sensory Input
  • Integration
  • Motor output
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Gathering information

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Sensory input

38
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Sensory receptors monitor changes called stimuli, occurring inside and outside the body

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Sensory input

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Nervous system processes and interprets sensory input and decides whether action is needed

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Integration

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A response, or effect, activated muscles or glands

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Motor output

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White, fatty material covering axons

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Wrap axons in a jelly roll like fashion (PNS) to form the myelin sheath

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Schwann cells

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Two types of schwann cells:

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  • Neurilemma
  • Nodes of Ranvier
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Part of the schwann cells external to the myelin sheath

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Neurilemma

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Gaps in myelin sheath along the axon

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Nodes of Ranvier

46
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Produce myelin sheaths around axons of the CNS

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Oligodendrocytes

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Lack neurilemma

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Oligodendrocytes

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Types of terminology:

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  • nuclei
  • Ganglia
  • Tracts
  • Nerves
  • White matter
  • Gray matter
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Clusters of the bodies in the CNS

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Collections of cell bodies outside the CNS in the PNS

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Bundles of nerve fibers in the CNS

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Bundles of nerve fibers in the PNS

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Collections of myelinated fibers (tracts)

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White matter

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Mostly unmyelinated fibers and cell bodies

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Gray matter

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Structural Classification:

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  • multipolar neurons
  • Bipolar neurons
  • Unipolar neurons
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Based on the number of processes extending from the cell body

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Structural Classification

57
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Many extensions from the cell body

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Multipolar neurons

58
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Most common structural type

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Multipolar neurons

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Have a short single process leaving the cell body

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Functional properties of neurons:

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  • irritability
  • Conductivity
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Ability to respond to a stimulus and convert it to a nerve impulse

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Irritability

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Ability to transmit the impulse to other neurons muscles or glands

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Conductivity

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is the major positive ion inside the cell

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is the major positive ion outside the cell

65
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Membrane permeability changes again —becoming impermeable to sodium ions and permeable to potassium ion

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Repolarization

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Involves restoring the inside of the membrane to a negative charge and the outer surface to a positive charge

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Repolarization

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PNS glial cells:

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  • Schwann cells
  • Satellite cells
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Form myelin sheath around nerve fibers in the PNS

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Schwann cells

69
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Protect and cushion neuron cell bodies

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Satellite cells

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Nerve cells

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Cells specialized in transmit messages (nerve impulses)

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Major regions of all neurons:

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  • cell body
  • Processes
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Nucleus and metabolic center of the cell

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Fiber that extend from the cell body

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Metabolic center of the neuron

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Types of cell body:

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  • Nucleus
  • Nissl bodies
  • Neurofibrils
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with large nucleolus

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Rough endoplasmic reticulum

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Nissl bodies

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Intermediate filaments that maintain cell shape

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Neurofibrils

80
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are rapid, predictable, and involuntary responses to stimuli

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Reflexes occur over neural pathways called?

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Reflex arcs

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Two types of reflexes:

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  • Somatic Reflexes
  • Autonomic Reflexes
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4 types of processes (fiber):

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  • Dendrites
  • Axons
  • Synaptic cleft
  • Synapse
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Conduct impulses toward the cell body

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Conduct impulses away from the cell body

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Gap between axon terminals and the next neuron

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Synaptic cleft

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Functional junction between nerves where a nerve impulse is transmitted

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