Structure of Nervous System

• What does the nervous system collect and respond to?

  Information in the environment
• What is the primary function of the nervous system?

  Controls working of different organs and cells
• What are the subdivisions of the human nervous system?

  • Central Nervous System (CNS)
  • Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
• What does the CNS consist of?

  Brain and spinal cord
• What are the sub-divisions of the PNS?

  Automatic Nervous System and Somatic Nervous System
• What does the ANS stand for?

  Autonomic Nervous System
• What does the SNS stand for?

  Somatic Nervous System
• What are the two divisions of the ANS?

  Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems