Nervous

• What is the purpose of the system?

  1. Receive sensory information
  2. Process and integrate the information
  3. Generate an appropriate response
• Components

  The Central Nervous System (CNS)

  • Brain and spinal cord

  The The Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

  • Nerves that branch off of the CNS
• 4 types of tissue

  1. Epithelial
  2. Connective 
  3. Muscle
  4. Nervous
• parts of a multipolar cell

  
• 3 main components of the brain

  1. Brainstem
  2. Cerebellum
  3. Cerebrum
• The Brainstem is comprised of three parts:

  1. Midbrain
  2. Pons
  3. Medulla Oblongata
• Purpose of the brainstem

  1. Regulates involuntary functions
  2. Communicates  with spinal cord
• The major functions of the Cerebellum are

  1. Coordination of voluntary movements
  2. Motor learning
  3. Balance and posture
• Cerebrum is made up of what Matter?


  Gray
• Cerebrum is made up of 4 lobes


  Frontal

  Parietal

  Temporal

  Occipital
• The brain is made up of 2 Hemispheres


  right and left Hemispheres
• What connects the two hemispheres

  Corpus Callosum