Test 1 Flashcards
6 Functions of the Nervous System
- Perception
- Special senses: taste, balance, hear, vision, smell
- Somatosensory: group of modalitiles of body state; PainTouchProprioceptionTemperature
- Visceral: modulate, monitor, motivate - Movement
- plan, initiate, coordinate - Life sustaining
- seek, homeostais - Cognition
- memory, learning - Emotinon
- fear, pleasure, attatchment, desire - Arousal
- biological rythms; sleep, conciousness
4 Components of CNS
- forebrain (cerebral hemispheres and diencephalon)
- brainstem (midbrain, pons, medulla)
- cerebellum
- spinal cord
Components of PNS
- Sensory nerves: from periphery/viscera to CNS
- Motor nerves: commands from CNS to muscles/viscera
Subdivisons:
- Somatic Motor system: sensory nerve/motor nerves to skeletal muscles
- Autonomic Motor System: motor commands to viscera and smooth muscle via sympathetic, parasymphathetic, and enteric system
3 Primordial tissues
- Endoderm: epithelial of GI, respiratory, and urinary
- Mesoderm: muscle, skeletal, CT, and cardiovascular tissue, urogenital/hematopoietic systems, some microglia
- Ectoderm: skin, neurons, macroglia, ependymal cells (line ventricles), and some microglia
-Ectoterm transforms into neuroectoderm-> tubes to become chambers
Development of Chambers from 3-> mature
Prosencephalon->
- telencephalon-> cerebral hemispheres
- diecnephalon-> thalamus/hypothalamus
Mesencephalon->
-mesencephalon -> midbrain
Rhombencephalon->
- metencephalon-> pons/cerebellym
- myencephalon-> medulla
Flexures of Development
Cephalic flexure: during 3 vent stage, remains as secondary primary axis-> cererum/brainstem different axis
Cervical flexure: 3 vent stage; straightens out
Pontine flexure: marks beginning of cerebellar differentiation in 5 vent stage
Neuron anatomy:
INPUT zone
Soma and Dendrites
-dendrites increase surface area for synapse
Neuron anatomy:
INTEGRATION (trigger) zone
Axon Hillock
-“initial segment”
Neuron anatomy:
CONDUCTING zone
Axon
- neurofillaments skeleton of axons
- mircotubules allow protein transport to dendrites and terminal endings
Neuron anatomy:
TRANSMITTING zone
Presynaptic Terminal
“axon terminal”
Neuron anatomy:
INSULATOR
Myelin
-in schwann cells, oligodendrytes
Neuron anatomy:
AP Renewal/REGENERATOR
Nodes of Ranvier
Neuron anatomy:
TRANSMITTER RELEASE
Presynaptic membrane
- in axon terminal
- NT made here
Neuron anatomy:
TRANSMITTER UPTAKE
Postsynaptic membrane
-NT uptook here
3 Neuron Classification classes
- Morphology: multip, bi, uni, pseudounipolar
- Function: sensory, motor, autonomic, interneuron
- Neurotransmitter: chemicals they produce/release
4 Morphologic Classification of Neurons
- Psuedounipolar: DRG, somatosensation
- Unipolar: rare
- Bipolar: special senses
- Multipolar: almost all neurons
3 Glial Cell Functions
- Neuron growth: Support neuron growth/repair after damage
- Neuronal activity: Insulate axons/stabalize extracell activity
- Form glial systems: Chemical signaling in CNS
2 Classes of Glial Cells
- Macroglia: (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, Scwann cells, ependymal cells)
- Astro/Oligo: CNS to many cells
- Schwann: PNS, myelinate ONE neuron at ONE location
- Emepndymal: line ventricles - Microglia: (few in number)
- increase when infections invade NS
3 Qualifications of NeuroTransmitters
- Pres-synaptic manufactored
- Calciam mediated release
- Receptors on post-synaptic bind to it
Functions of 5 Cerbral Lobe
Frontal: cognition, voluntary motor (speech)
Parietal: somatosensation, taste, intermodal (multisens) integration
Occipatl: vision
Temporal: hearing, speech recognitino, smell, memory formation
Insula: taste, emotive pain (2 long gyri 3 short gyri)
–Limbic (not lobe): homesotasis, olfaction, memory, emotion
Cranial Nerve Locations in Brainstem
2: rostral to midbrain- in diencephalon 3-4: midrain 5: pons 6-8: pondumedular junction 9-12: rostral medulla
Divisons of Spinal Cord Termination
Cauda equina: L1-L2 when spinal cord ends; roots
Conus Medullaris: T12-L1; tapering of SC
Filum Terminale: fibrous cord of pia mater anchoring to coccyx
Additional Set nerves T1-L3: forming pregranglionic nerves for sympathetic NS
Gray vs. White Matter
Gray: cell bodies forming nuclei/ganglia light in stains mantel of the cortex basal ganglia, hippocampal formation, amygdala
White: axons forming pathways dark in stains subcortical axon pathways to cortex pathways in/out of cortex
Diencephalon Composition
white vs. grey
- Nuclei with small pathways in/out of gray clusters
- Bound by large white matter traveling in/out cerebral hemispheres