PSYC 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Homeostasis, Glucagon, Heart Failure
20 Sep 2015
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The nervous system: central nervous system, consists of the brain and spinal cord, sends and receives electrochemical messages through neurons throughout the body, the brain is divided into three parts. Controls hearing as well as vision, memory, and. Controls body sensations like pain, heat, cold, and. Controls the sensory information coming into the brain and directs it to the proper lobe in the cerebrum as well as directs commands going out to the skeletal muscles from the motor cortex. Its outer layer is called the cerebral cortex. Seems to be important in emotions and their. Ataxia happens when this is injured, causes jerky and uncoordinated movements. Sits at the top of the spinal cord. Network of neurons that is between the bottom of. Medulla blood vessels: the spinal cord is the pathway between the cns and pns, peripheral nervous system, branching system of afferent (toward the brain) and efferent (away from the brain) neurons through the body, uses two divisions.
