Role of the CNS and Neurotransmitters

• Role of CNS and Neurotransmitters

  • Human nervous system:
  • Central nervous system (CNS; brain and spinal cord, relays messages between brain and body)
  • Peripheral nervous system (PNS; nerves connecting CNS to skin, muscles and organs)
  • Psychologists study CNS to analyse functions and jobs of various brain regions, look at damage impact on function
  • Spinal cord
  • Cnnects to brain by brain stem
  • For reflex reactions
  • Brain
  • Conscious awareness
  • Decision-making
  • 2 hemispheres; connected by corpus callosum