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HSO109 pt 9

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What are the anatomical divisions of the nervous system?   - The peripheral nervous system - The central nervous system  
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What is the central nervous system comprised of?   - Brain - Spinal cord  
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What is the peripheral nervous system?   - Afferent division (sensory) - Efferent division (somatic motor & autonomic motor: sympathetic & parasympathetic)  
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What makes up a neuron?   - Cell membrane - Dendrite - Cell body (soma) - Nucleus - Axon - Myelin sheath - Synaptic terminals  
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What is the function of myelin sheath?   - Electrical insulation increases the speed at which electrical signals (action potentials) traveel along the axon  
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What is a transmembrane potential?   - Is the electrical potential of the cell's interior relative to its surroundings  
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What is the resting potential?   - Is the transmembrane potential of an undisturbed cell  
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What are action potentials?   - Are nerve impulses - Are propagated changes in the transmembrane potential that, once initiated, affect an entire excitable membrane  
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Describe the all-or-none principle:   - A stimulus either triggers a typical action potential, or it does not produce one at all  
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What is the refractory period?   - From the time an action potential begins until the normal resting potential is stabilised, the membrane will not respond normally to additional depolarising stimuli  
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How does an action potential work?   1. An action potential is generated in a small portion of the membrane 2. A local current depolarises the adjacent portion of the membrane 3. Same events take place over and over 4. Action potential is propagated through the entire excitable membrane  
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How does an action potential work? pt 2.   5. An action potential only moves forward because previous segment is in refractory period  
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What affect the speed of action potentials?   - Myelin - Axon diameter: large = fast, small = slower  
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What is the synapse comprised of?   - Telodendron - Synaptic terminal - Synaptic vesicles - Synaptic cleft - Neurotransmitters - Ligand-gated channels (receptors w/ neurotransmitters) - Post synaptic neuron  
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What is a chemical synapse?   - Involves a neurotransmitter  
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What is an electrical synapse?   - Direct physical contact between cells (gap junctions)  
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