Week 1:1 Flashcards
Divisions of the CNS
- brain
- spinal cord
brain functions
- receives and processes sensory information
- initiates responses
- stores memories
- generates thoughts and emotions
spinal cord functions
- conducts signals to and from the brain
- controls reflex activities
divisions of the PNS
- motor neurons
- sensory neurons
motor neurons
CNS to muscles and glands
sensory neurons
sensory organs to CNS
divisions of motor neurons
- somatic nervous system
- autonomic nervous system
somatic nervous system controls
voluntary movements
autonomic nervous system controls
involuntary responses
divisions of autonomic nervous system
- sympathetic
- parasympathetic
sympathetic
fight or flight
parasympathetic
rest or digest
Good way to know if something’s part of the PNS
if it’s not encased in bone
soma
body
afferent
sensory, ascending, toward the brain
efferent
motor, descending, away from the brain
white matter
- consists of myelinated axons
- conducts information
gray matter
- cell bodies
- information integrated
dendrites
receive messages
Where is information carried in a neuron?
down the axon via an action potential to the axon terminals
Why are cell bodies important?
integration of information
gray matter in the spinal cord
horns
white matter in the spinal cord
columns
sensory aspect of the spinal cord
- enters the dorsal horn via dorsal root ganglia
- processed into motor command if necessary