Nervous System Flashcards
Brain, Spinal Cord
CNS structure
Cranial nerves, spinal nerves
PNS structure
Incoming sensory information
Afferent
Outgoing motor information
Efferent
CNS motor signals to muscles, voluntary
Somatic Nervous system
Involuntary (signals to heart, digestion, glands)
Autonomic Nervous system
Fight or flight
Sympathetic Nervous system
Feed and breed, repair and repose, rest and digest, etc.
Parasympathetic Nervous system
produce nerve impulses and neurotransmitters
Neuron
nerve cell bodies in the CNS
Perikaryon
RER in nerve cells
Nissel Substance
Outgoing information from neurons, transmitter
Axon
incoming information to neurons, receiver
Dendrite
support cells for neurons
Neuroglia (Glial Cells)
support cells of the CNS, provides structure and nutrition for neurons (Glial Cell)
Astrocytes
myelin of the CNS, myelinates axons (insulated axons) (Glial Cell)
Oligodendrocytes
support cells of the PNS, Astrocyte of the PNS (Glial Cell)
Satellite Cells
myelin of the PNS, Oligodendrocyte of the PNS (Glial Cell)
Neurolemma, Schwann cells
Phagocytic cells, immune system cell (Glial Cell)
Microglia
produces CSF (Glial Cell)
Ependymal Cells
connects axons
Nodes of Ranvier
nerve cell bodies(Perikaryon) + glial cells
Grey Matter
myelinated nerve cell processes(axons) + glial cells
White Matter
nerve cell bodies outside the CNS
ganglia
collection of nerve cell bodies inside the CNS
nucleus
bundle of nerve fibers inside the CNS
nerve tracts
electrical signal travels through gap junctions between neurons (common in the heart)
electrical synapses
use neurotransmitters for signaling (most common, neuron + axon)
chemical synapses
motor signals/functions in the spinal cord
ventral roots
sensory signals/functions in the spinal cord(dorsal root ganglion)
dorsal roots
takes sensory information up the spinal cord to the brain(dorsal)
ascending tracts
takes motor information down the spinal cord from the brain(ventral)
descending tracts
nerves that supply skin, muscles of the face, neck, and shoulders
C1-C5
phrenic nerves to diaphragm (breathing regulation)
C3-C5
brachial plexus, arm muscles
C5-T1
location of the termination of the cord (becomes filamentous)
L2