STEPHEN PRICE Flashcards
difference between CNS and PNS?
CNS: brain and spinal cord
PNS: all nerves and ganglia outisde the brain and spinal cord
what do AFFERENT nerves do?
these carry info to CNS from the PNS
what do EFFERENT nerves do?
these carry info from CNS to the PNS
what are the 3 divisions of the sensory afferent?
- somatosensory
- viscerosensory
- special sensory
what are the division of the motor efferent nerves?
- somatomotor
- autonomic: parasympathetic, sympathetic and enteric
what does the somatosensory involve?
skeletal muscle and skin
what does the somatomotpr involve?
skeletal muscle that is voluntray
what does the autonomic nervous system involve?
smooth muscle
cardiac muscle
glandular and secretory tissue
these are all involuntary
what is the distribution of cell bodies within the gray matter?
same no of cell bodies from top to bottom
what is the distribution of cell bodies within the white matter?
- smaller as you go down to te cortex
- bigger as you go down to the cervical region
what is the route of sensory nerves?
from the spinal cord to the dorsal root ganglian
what is the route of motor nerves?
to the spinal cord coming out of the ventral root
which subdivision of the PNS does the basal ganglia belong to?
autonomic nervous system
what is an inductive process?
takes stem cells and lineage restrictions that give rise to a few types of cells, allowing differentiation
how does the brain of an embryo develop to form the CNS?
- begins as a hollow tube
- cerebral hemispheres outgrowths on either side from cranial end of tube
- sweeps over the surface hiding the central core of the developing brain