Session 12 - Intro To Nervous System Flashcards
List the 3 messenger system of the body
- Immune system
- Endocrine system
- Nervous system
What constitutes the central nervous system?
- Brain
- Spinal cord
What are the 2 main components of the nervous system?
- Central nervous system
- Peripheral nervous system
Bundles of neuron processes are known as what in the CNS?
Tracts
Bundles of neuron processes are known as what in the PNS?
Nerves
What are nuclei?
Congregations of cell bodies located in the white matter of the brain
What are ganglia?
Congregations of cell bodies in the PNS
Which cells constitute the myelin sheaths in the PNS?
Schwann cells
Which cells constitute the blood-brain barrier?
Astrocytes
Which cells are part of neuroglia? List 5.
- Oligodendrocytes
- Microglia
- Astrocytes
- Ependymal
- Schwann cells
List the 12 cranial nerves.
- Olfactory nerve
- Optic nerve
- Oculomotor nerve
- Trochlear nerve
- Trigeminal nerve
- Abducens nerve
- Facial nerve
- Vestibulococchlear nerve
- Glossopharyngeal nerve
- Vagus nerve
- Accessory nerve
- Hypoglossal nerve
What is the function of the Hypoglossal nerve?
It controls the muscles of the tongue
What is the function of the Accessory nerve?
It controls the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscle
What is the function of the Vagus nerve?
- Controls muscles in the in the pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchial tree, heart and GI tract up to the left colic flexure
- Provides sensory innervation for viscera up to the left colic flexure
What is the function of the Glossopharyngeal nerve?
- Provides motor innervation for the stylopharyngeus muscle and parotid gland
- Provides sensory innervation for the pharynx, middle ear cavity and taste in the posterior 1/3 of the tongue,