Thursday, October 4, 2007

Basic Nervous System Anatomy

Basic Nervous System Anatomy

What does CNS and PNS stand for? Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System

What are the parts of the CNS? Brain and spinal

Describe something that you do on a regular basis that your PNS controls. When we touch something hot

What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system and what does each control? Sympathetic and parasympathetic Nervous System

5. What are the three main types of neurons? What is the function of each? Sensory neuron - Receive impulses from the bodymotor neuron - neuron that is sent back to impulse to tell you how to react.Interneuron - transports impulses to the brain

6. What is the function of the axon of a nerve cell? The dendrite? Neural impulses are sent from the axon and end up at the dendrite.then synapse happens and it jumps to neuron.

7. What is a synapse? Conduction of an impulse from one neuron to another.
Sketch a neuron and label the axon and the dendrite.

1 comment:

Duval said...

fine, but no sketch