PS263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Horizontal Plane, Coronal Plane, Sagittal Plane
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Neuroanatomy the anatomy of the nervous system. Brain areas and neurons have specialized roles, but hey also depend on connections with other areas. Central nervous system (cns) is the brain and the spinal cord. Peripheral nervous system (pns) connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. Somatic nervous system part of the pns consists of axons conveying messages from the sense organs to the cns and from the cns to the muscles. Autonomic nervous system part of pns controls the heart, intestines an other organs; has of cell bodies within in brain and spinal cord & cluster along the side of spinal cord. Dorsal toward the back the the of the to the cord axis brain right the axis spinal. Humans evolved upright posture, position head changed relative spinal. Dorsal- ventral of the human is at a angle to dorsal- ventral of cord the. Terms referring to parts of the nervous system.
