NS Flashcards
A group of tissues composed of highly
specialized cells possessing the
characteristics of excitability and
conductivity.
NERVOUS SYSTEM
Morphological divisions of nervous system:
- Central nervous system
- Peripheral nervous system
a. Brain
b. Spinal cord
Central nervous system
- Innervating visceral or involuntary structures like smooth muscles, cardiac muscles and glands.
- This is autonomic nervous system.
Visceral efferent
a. Cranial nerves (12 pairs)
b. Spinal nerves (31 pairs)
c. Autonomic nervous system
Peripheral nervous system
Functional divisions of PNS:
- Somatic efferent
- Visceral efferent
- Produce myelin sheath in the central nervous system.
Oligodendrocyte
- involve in the blood brain barrier (BBB)
Astrocyte
Types of cell in the nervous system:
- Neurons
- Neuroglia
- Innervating somatic structures like skeletal muscles and skin.
- Pertaining to the body
Somatic efferent
Two types of processes: Neuron
- Dendrites
- Axons
- The active conducting elements
- This is the Parenchymal – functional cells
Neurons
- the supporting element
- supporting cells of the CNS and PNS means do not conduct action
Neuroglia
types of neuroglia
a. Astrocyte
b. Oligodendrocyte
c. Microglia
d. Ependymal cells
- Phagocytic cells (protecting)
- Nangangain ng Microorganisms
- immune cells of the CNS
Microglia
- Basic unit of the nervous system which
conducts electrical impulses from one part of the body to another.
Neuron
- Transmit impulses toward the cell body.
- Afferent process
Dendrites
- point of connection between neurons.
Synapse
- that will allow the conduction of impulse to pass through from one neuron to another.
neurotransmitters
- lining the ventricles at the brain and central canal of spinal cord.
- Flow of your CSF, fluid of your brain
Ependymal cells
Main neurotransmitters:
- Epinephrine (Adrenalin)
- Norepinephrine (Nor Adrenaline)
- Acetylcholine
- Conducting impulses away from the cell
body. - Efferent process
Axons
- Insulating material covering axons in central and peripheral nervous system.
- The electrical impulse jumps from node to node in myeline sheath instead of traveling continuously along the nerve fiber. (Saltatory Conduction of Impulses)
Myelin Sheath
- periodic gap in the insulating myelin sheath on the axon of certain neurons that serves to facilitate the rapid conduction of nerve impulses.
Node of Ranvier
- Includes the brain and spinal cord.
- It is divided grossly into gray and white
matter:
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- So, called because of its appearance and preponderance of nerve cell bodies and true dendrites.
- Outer part in brain; inner part in spinal cord
Gray matter
- Composed chiefly of myelinated nerve
fibers - Inner part in brain; outer part in spinal cord
White matter
- Group or aggregates of nerve cell bodies outside the CNS
Ganglion/ganglia cells
Embryological Divisions of the Brain:
- Forebrain (Prosencephalon)
- Midbrain (Mesencephalon)
- Hindbrain (Rhombencephalon)
- Part of the central nervous system contained within the skull
- Most complex and largest mass of nervous tissue in the body and contains literally billions of nerve cells.
- The average weight of the human brain in the adult is approximately 1380 grams in the male and 1250 grams in the female
Brain
a. Telencephalon (Cerebrum)
b. Diencephalon (thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus, subthalamus)
- Forebrain (Prosencephalon)
a. Corpora quadrigemina (tectum)
- 2 superior colliculi – visual reflexes
- 2 inferior colliculi – auditory reflexes
b. Cerebral peduncles
c. Vertebral Aqueduct of Sylvius (iter)
- Midbrain (Mesencephalon)
a. Metencephalon (cerebellum, pons)
b. Myelencephalon (medulla oblongata)
Hindbrain (Rhombencephalon)
- 7/8 of weight of brain
- discriminatory identification; integration of sensory information; memory; reasoning; for use of language; for emotional behavior; for initiation of movement
Cerebrum (Telencephalon)
Fissures of Cerebrum:
- Longitudinal Fissure
- Lateral Sylvian Fissure
- Central Sulcus (Rolandic Fissure)
- Transverse Fissure
- Parieto – occipital Fissure
- Calcarine Fissure
- Separating 2 cerebral hemisphere
Longitudinal Fissure
- Separate your frontal lobe and parietal lobe above from the temporal lobe.
Lateral Sylvian Fissure
– don’t interchange the fissure and sulcus because anteriorly ang spinal mo hinahati sya ng deep groove
Antero median fissure
called in the End of lateral Sylvian Fissure is
Supramarginal Gyrus
– shallow groove, Lumalabas un Middle cerebral artery
Dorso median fissure
Depression that separating the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe.
Central Sulcus (Rolandic Fissure)
- Between the cerebellum and the cerebrum.
- Cerebellum – big brain; cerebrum – little brain.
Transverse Fissure
- Between the occipital and parietal lobes.
- Middle surface of the brain
Parieto – occipital Fissure
- Found in the occipital lobe
- Visual center (calcarine area)
- 2 parts of visual area: Cuneus and Lingual gyrus
Calcarine Fissure
Lobes of the Cerebral cortex:
- Frontal lobe
- Parietal lobe
- Temporal lobe
- Occipital lobe
- calcarine lobe
- Temporal lobe
- yun dulo nya, Angular gyrus
Superior Temporal Sulcus
- Includes all the cortex lying anterior to the central sulcus of Rolando and above the lateral sulcus sylvius.
- Center for motor functions and personality.
Frontal lobe
- Lies posterior to central sulcus of Rolando and above lateral Sylvian fissure.
- Center for sensory functions
Parietal lobe
- Lies beneath the lateral sulcus of Sylvian
- Center for hearing and olfaction.
Temporal lobe
3 part of inferior frontal gyrus:
Pars opercularis
Pars triangularis
Pars orbitalis- (not part of Broca’s area)
- Exposed when the lips of lateral Sylvian
fissure are separated. - Icucut ng coronal and makikita yun lateral sulcus, un nasa gilid tapos nandoon sa loob yun Insula.
Insula (Island of Reil)
- Above lateral sulcus into the deep layers of the sensory area
- Taste area or gustatory area
- Opercular part of the post central gyrus
(Brodmann’s area 43)
Taste Area
- Lies in the frontal lobe immediately anterior to the central sulcus
- Controls voluntary movements in the
opposite side of body. - Brodmann’s area 4
Primary Motor area or Pre-central gyrus
- Occupies the posterior extremity of the
cerebral hemisphere behind parieto-occipital fissure. - Visual center
Occipital lobe
Functional areas of the cerebrum:
- Primary Motor area or Pre-central gyrus
- Pre-motor Area
- Pre-frontal area
- Primary sensory/ somesthetic area or Post-central gyrus
- Motor speech area
- Sensory speech area
- Auditory or Hearing Area (transverse gyri of Heschl)
- Visual Area
- Olfactory or smell Area
- Taste Area
Frontal lobe is divided to 3 gyri:
Superior frontal gyrus
middle frontal gyrus
inferior frontal gyrus