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Anatomy set 2-Week 8
CNS, PNS, & ANS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are some diseases of the Central Nervous system | Dementia Stroke Cerebral Palsy Physical Injury Seizure disorder |
| What does the Central Nervous System consist of? | Brain and Spinal cord |
| What are the functions of the spinal cord? | Sensory, Motor, sending and receiving nerve impulses |
| What is the Central Nervous System? | Ultimate regulator of the body; essential to survival Able to integrate bits of information from all over the body, make sense of it. |
| What does the Peripheral nervous system consist of? | Nerves and Ganglia |
| What is the Peripheral nervous system? | Is made up of all the afferent nervous pathways coming into the CNS and all the efferent path-ways going out of the CNS. After reviewing all the major spinal and cranial nerves, including their major branches, |
| What are two functional divisions of the peripheral nervous system? | Afferent (sensory) division Efferent (motor) division -Somatic motor nervous system (SNS) - Autonomic nervous system |
| What is the enteric nervous system? | So-called “second brain” in the wall of the gut. The term enteric means “intestinal,” so you can think of this system as the “intestinal nervous system. |
| Where is the Enteric Nervous System | Within intestinal wall, the ENS regulates digestive function |
| What is the operation of the Enteric Nervous System | Involve the storage and retrieval of memories and the establishment of repeating patterns of response. |