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Human Diseases
Lesson 4
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Health Care
Post-Graduate
03/20/2012

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the body's nervous system is
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an elaborate, interlaced network of nerve cells of astronishing complexity and sophistication
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This network includes
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brain, spinal cord, and nerves
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this system functions in order to
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regulate and coordinate body activities and bring about responses by which the body adjusts to changes in its internal and external environment
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The central nervous system (CNS) consists of
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brain and spinal cord.

processes and stores sensory info and includes the parts of the brain governing consciousness.
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The peripheral nervous system (PNS) consists of
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all other nervous tissue outside the CNS
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The PNS includes how many cranial nerves, spinal nerves, & sensory nerves?
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12 pairs of cranial nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves, all sensory nerves, and the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves.
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The sympathetic and parasympathetic are part of
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(ANS)-Autonomic Nervous System
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ANS does what?
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regulates involuntary muscle movements and the action of glands
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the cell body of each neuron contains:
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DNA in its nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, and ribosomes for buiding proteins, and mitochondria for making energy
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DNA
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Deoxyribonucleic acid
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neuron
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cell specialized to initiate or conduct electromechanical impulses and to react to physical and chemical changes in its surroundings.
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mitochondria does what
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makes energy
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ribosomes does what
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builds protein
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brain is the control center for
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information: receives, processes, and responds
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each neurons has a long
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axon
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axons may be sheathed in myelin and many tiny braches called dendrites.
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carry impulses away from the cell body towards other neurons
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sensory neurons/afferent
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transmit impulses to the CNS
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motor neurons/ efferent
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interneurons/
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