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NERVOUS SYSTEM STUDY GUIDE
1. 3 FUNCTIONS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
2. 2 MAJOR NERVOUS SYSTEMS
3. AFFERENT VS. EFFERENT NERVES. What does each do?
4. SOMATIC VS AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM What does each do? Which is involuntary?
5. SYMPATHETIC VS PARASYMPATHETIC What are some things that happen when you get scared? When you have just had a big meal?
6. Draw the Graphic Organizer for the nervous system
7. ANATOMY OF A NEURON with a MYELIN SHEATH
Nerve Part / Function / DescriptionSOMA (cell body)
DENDRITE
AXON
SCHWANN CELLS
MYELIN SHEATH
NODES OF RANVIER
AXON TERMINALS
8. SYNAPSE and SYNAPTIC CLEFT Where are they and how do they work?
9. Define NEUROGLIA and tell what it does
10. GRAY MATTER VS WHITE MATTER Which one is myelinated and be able to label it on a spinal cord diagram
11. TYPES OF NEURONS (3) LOCATION OF INTERNEURONS Where are the cell bodies found and where do the axons travel to?
FUNCTION / LOCATION OF CELL BODY AND AXONAFFERENT
EFFERENT
INTERNEURON
12. DEFINITION AND LOCATION OF GANGLION
13. 4 types of SENSORY RECEPTORS and what they sense.
SENSENAKED NERVE ENDINGS
MEISSNER CORPUSCLES
PACINIAN CORPUSCLES
PROPRIOCEPTORS
14. 3 SHAPES OF NEURONS Which shape are motor, sensory and interneurons?
DESCRIPTION / EXAMPLESMULTIPOLAR
UNIPOLAR
BI POLAR
DRAW THE 3 NEURONS ABOVE
15. TRACE A SIMPLE REFLEX ARC- LABEL IT
17. What is a REFLEX? What is a REFLEX ARC?
18 List the 5 items found in all REFLEX ARCS
19. Name the two types of reflexes.
20. What is a TWO NEURON REFLEX ARC? Give examples
21. What is a THREE NEURON REFLEX ARC? Give examples
22. What is a CROSS FIBER REFLEX ARC? Give examples
23. SIZE OF SPINAL CORD- CAUDA EQUINA- # OF SPINAL NERVES
24. 3 LAYERS OF THE MENINGES and SUBARACHNOID SPACE- WHAT DOES EACH DO?
DESCRIPTION / FUNCTIONDURAMATER
ARACHNOID MATER
SUBARACHNOID SPACE
PIA MATER
25. CEREBROSPINAL FLUID- WHAT IS IT LIKE ? What are some functions?
26 KNOW WHAT CRANIAL NERVES I-V AND X DO.
CRANIAL NERVE ICRANIAL NERVE II
CRANIAL NERVE III
CRANIAL NERVE IV
CRANIAL NERVE V
CRANIAL NERVE X
27. Know what CEREBROSPINAL FLUID does and where it is made
28 Know the location of the 4 Ventricles
LocationLeft ventricle
Right Ventricle
3rd Ventricle
4th Ventricle
29. TRACE the pathway of cerebrospinal fluid and tell where it is reabsorbed.
30. What is the BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER? What can pass through it and what is prevented from passing?
31. Know the structure of a NEURON
DESCRIPTIONAXON
ENDONEURIUM
FASCICLE
PERINEURIUM
NERVE
EXONEURIUM
32. Know how many SPINAL NERVES there are and what the definition of a RAMI
33. KNOW THE 4 PLEXUS AND THE MAJOR NERVES OF EACH
34 Know the following brain and spinal injuries
CAUSE ANDCONCUSSION
CONTUSION
CEREBRAL EDEMA
INTERCRANIAL HEMORRHAGE
STROKE
35. Know DIFFERENCES between the SOMATIC and AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEMS- # of neurons and GANGLIONS
SOMATIC MOTOR PATHWAY-
AUTONOMIC MOTOR PATHWAY-
36. Know the definition of PREGANGLIONIC NEURON and POST GANGLIONIC NEURON
37 Know the location of the PREGANGLIONIC NEURONS and POST GANGLIONIC NEURONS for the PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
38. Know the location of the PREGANGLIONIC NEURONS and POST GANGLIONIC NEURONS for the SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
39. Know the Actions of the SYMPATHETIC AND PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEMS ON THE FOLLOWING ORGANS
ORGAN / PARASYMPATHETIC / SYMPATHETICEYES
SALIVARY GLANDS
HEART
LUNGS
STOMACH
PANCREAS
LIVER- GALL BLADDER
GENITALS
ADRENAL GLANDS
40. DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS
CONDUCTIVITY
IRRITABILITY
THRESHOLD STIMULUS
NERVE IMPULSE
DEPOLARIZATION
REPOLARIZATION
41. BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE HOW A NEURON BECOMES DEPOLARIZED AND REPOLARIZED.