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Central Nervous System - ✔✔Consists of the brain and spinal cord, enclosed within protective
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cranial vault and vertebrae
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Different pathways in the peripheral nervous system? - ✔✔Afferent (ascending) - carry sensory
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impulses toward CNS || ||




Efferent (descending) - innervate skeletal muscle or effector organs by transmitting motor
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impulses away from CNS || || ||




Somatic Nervous System - ✔✔Pathways that regulate voluntary motor control
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Autonomic Nervous System - ✔✔Regulation of the body's internal environment (viscera)
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through involuntary control of organs
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Further divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic
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Two cells that constitute nervous tissue? - ✔✔Neurons
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Nonneuronal neuroglial cells || ||




Neuron - ✔✔primary cell of the nervous system
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electrically excitable cell and transmits and receives information
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Neurological Cells - ✔✔provide structural support, protection, and nutrition for neurons
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facilitate neurotransmission ||




3 parts of a neuron - ✔✔cell body, dendrites, axon
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Cell Body - ✔✔•Mostly located in the CNS
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•Cell bodies in the PNS are found in groups called ganglia
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Ganglia - ✔✔Clusters of cell bodies in the PNS
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Dendrites - ✔✔Extensions that carry nerve impulses toward the cell body
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Axons - ✔✔long conductive projections that carry nerve impulses away from the cell body
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Axon Hillock - ✔✔Cone shaped region of an axon where it joins the cell body.
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Myelin Sheath - ✔✔Membrane made of a lipid material called myelin
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May wrap around the axon
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Nodes of Ranvier - ✔✔Gaps in the myelin sheath to which voltage-gated sodium channels are
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confined.


Myelin - ✔✔Produced by Schwann Cells|| || || || ||




Nutrient exchange is not possible through myelin sheath\
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Acts as an insulator that allows an action potential to leap between segments rather than flowing
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along the entire length of the membrane
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Disorders of the myelin sheath - ✔✔MS || || || || || ||




Guillain-Barre Syndrome ||




Four basic types of cell configuration - ✔✔Unipolar
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Pseudounipolar
Bipolar
Multipolar


Unipolar Neurons - ✔✔One process, an axon, which branches shortly after leaving the cell body
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EX: retina ||




Pseudounipolar Neurons - ✔✔Have one axon process and one dendrite process. The are fused to || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||




each other near the cell body and the axon then extends into the CNS
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Bipolar Neurons - ✔✔Two processes, one axon and one dendrite
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EX connects rod and cone cells of retina
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Multipolar Neurons - ✔✔Most common and have multiple processes capable of extensive
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branching


3 Functional Classifications of Neurons - ✔✔Sensory - carry impulses from peripheral sensor
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receptors to CNS || ||




Associational - transmit impulses from neuron to neuron || || || || || || ||




Motor - transmit pulses away from the CNS to an effector
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Neurolgia - ✔✔nerve glue || || ||




general classifcation of nonneuonal cells that support he neurons of the nervous system
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