Nervous System (19)

Question 1

Function of nervous system?

Answer 1

Determines response of the body to changes in its environment

Question 2

What is a neuron? Function?

Answer 2

Function- sensory, motor, interneuron
Morphology - unipolar, bipolar, multipolar

Question 3

Central nervous system?

Answer 3

Brain and spinal cord

Question 4

Peripheral nervous system?

Answer 4

Nerves and ganglia outside the CNS

Question 5

Somatic Nervous System?

Answer 5

Sensory or motor fibbers to skin and voluntary skeletal muscles

Question 6

Visceral nervous system?

Answer 6

Sensory or motor fibres to visceral, glands and involuntary muscles

Question 7

Where are the cranial nerves found and what is their function?

Answer 7

They are found in the PNS in the brain case and ganglia outside the brain stem.

They convey information from the sense organs

Question 8

What does the autonomic nervous system consist of? Functions?

Answer 8

• sympathetic nervous system - ‘fight or flight” response
• parasympathetic nervous system - ‘rest and digest’ response

Question 9

Spinal cord?

Answer 9

Receives impulses, integrates and coordinates them. Then transmits them within the CNS

Question 10

Spinal nerves ?

Answer 10

• dorsal root
  -ventral root

Question 11

Forebrain?

Answer 11

• Telencephalon and Diencephalon

Question 12

Midbrain?

Answer 12

• Tectum and Cerebral peduncles

Question 13

Hindbrain?

Answer 13

Pons, cerebellum and cerebellum.
Medulla oblong at a