Human Nervous System Level3 By Graciela Garcia
Functions of the Nervous System: Brain detects changes in the environment externally and internally Brain stores information Brain responds by starting changes in the nerves and glands Maintains homeostasis Brain processes signals
The cross section layers of the brain: Longitudinal Tissue -Separates brain medially Lateral Tissue -Separates temporal and frontal lobes. Central Sulcus -Separates frontal and parietal lobes
Divisions of the Nervous System: Central Nervous System -Brain -Spinal Cord Peripheral Nervous System Autonomic -Controls are involuntary -Blood flow, digestion, and heart Beat Somatic (not automatic) -Chewing, walking, and running
The four lobes
Description of the four lobes of the brain: Frontal Lobe Reasoning Planning Problem Solving Thinking Parietal Lobe Recognizing Stimuli orientation Speech Temporal Lobe Memory Speech Auditory stimuli Occipital Lobe Visual Processing Hallucinations
Spinal Nerves: Sacral Tailbone Spinal nerves: 5 -Innervate posterior legs and buttocks Thoracic Chest Spinal Nerves: 12 -Innervate trunk and parts of arms Cervical Neck Spinal nerves: 8 -Innervate back of head, upper back, and neck Lumbar Lower back Spinal nerves: 5 -Innervate lower abdomen and anterior legs
Diagram
Cranial Nerves: -Olfactory: the sense of smell -Optic: does the vision -Abducent: abduction of the eye -Facial: Facial expressions, saliva, tears, and taste
The Neuron & it’s Parts: A neuron is a nerve cell that forms chains that go through- out your whole body including the brain PARTS OF A NEURON: Dendrite (receives transmitters from environment) Cell Body (contains nucleus, and is largest part of cell) Nucleus (in cell body and contains DNA) Axon (tube that sends signals from cell body to axon terminal) Myelin Sheath (lipid [fat] that keeps chemicals inside axon to speed up transmission of the signal) Axon Terminal (end of axon where neurotransmitters are released) Neurotransmitters: chemical released into synaptic elect and to attach themselves to receptors on next neuron) Synaptic Cleft: gap between neurons)
Neuron
Flow of the CSF: Cerebrospinal Fluid – Clear fluid that is made in the spaces of the brain and circulates around the brain and spinal cord to cushion the brain and gives it nutrients. -Some made in choroid plexus of lateral ventricle in brain -Travels through interventricular forearm to 3 rd ventricle -Travels through 4 th ventricle through cerebral aqueduct Some travels to surround whole brain Some travel to spinal cord Absorbed by the arachnoid villi and filtered with the blood
The flow of CSF
Meninges: Skin of scalp Greater density of hair follicles Periosteum Connective tissue layer Bone Duramater Arachnoid Piamater