The nervous system is an important part of the human body. The system is made up of many different parts and each part is placed in either the central or peripheral nervous systems. These two parts work together and bring physical feelings and the proper reaction to them. The peripheral nervous system is the larger of the two systems. The peripheral nervous system consists of two more systems inside of it. The two other systems are the somatic and autonomic nervous systems. The somatic nervous system
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Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Activity 8: Chemical Synaptic Transmission and Neurotransmitter Release (20 points total) Notes: • After reading the Overview and Introduction‚ Click on Experiment. • Follow the directions on the left side of the menu to complete the lab. Use the data chart to answer the following questions. You do not have to submit your lab to be recorded. Lab Analysis Questions (5 points each) 1. What is the purpose of a neurotransmitter? 2. Which chemical
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What is cognitive psychology? The study of mental processes such as perceiving‚ remembering‚ and reasoning. Analytic introspection- analyze current perception into its elementary parts. Structuralism-complex conscious experiences can be broken down to elemental structures (component parts) of sensation and feelings. Introspection-look at a stimulus and report sensations and feelings to create a description of conscious experience School of functionalism-learn how the mind produces useful behavior
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The tectospinal tract connects the midbrain and the spinal cord. It is responsible for motor impulses that arise from one side of the midbrain to muscles on the opposite side of the body. The function of the tectospinal tract is to mediate reflex postural movements of the head in response to visual and auditory stimuli. Damage signs would show prevention in being able to coordinate the head‚ neck‚ and eye movements. Sensory receptors perform countless functions in our bodies including mediating vision
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The skeletal system: The bones of the skeletal system hold the body together‚ give it shape and support weight. They also enable the body to move and provide protection to the vital organs. There are four types of bones found in the human body: they are long bones which can be found in the arms‚ legs‚ fingers and toes‚ short bones which are found in the wrist and ankles‚ flat bones such as those in the skull‚ thorax and pelvis‚ irregular bones such as the bones of the vertebral column and face
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Reticulospinal Tract The reticulospinal tract is a motor pathway that originates from the reticular formation‚ primarily in the pons and medulla‚ and synapses in the spinal cord. In the reticular formation‚ the reticulospinal tract surfaces from the pontine caudal reticular nucleus and gigantocellular reticular nucleus. The reticulospinal tract is responsible for postural control and autonomic function like initiation of locomotion via innervation of motor neurons into the trunk and proximal limb
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Week 2- Test Brain Response of Behavior Fill in the Blank & Multiple Choice- 2.5 pts each Name: (1). _________ focuses on the study of the brain and the nervous system. Answer:_ neuroscience_____ (2). _______ vary widely in size and shape but are the smallest unit of the nervous system. Answer:___ Neurons___ (3). _____________make neurons different than other cells. Answer:____dendrites________________ (4). The ______________is a tiny space between the axon terminals
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The History of Cell Theory As we all probably know today‚ every single living being is made up by cells the building blocks of life. As much as we would like to take this fact for granted‚ we cannot help but acknowledge and remember the works and discoveries of earlier scientists which all contributed to our today’s understanding of the cell theory. The cell theory being; all living things are composed of one or more cells‚ cells are organisms’ basic units of structure and function‚ and cells
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Short Term Memory After reading several articles on short term memory‚ I noticed mostly everyone defines it differently. The most frequent definition is a system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning‚ reasoning and comprehension. It is involved in selection‚ initiation and termination of information - processing functions such as encoding‚ storing‚ and retrieving data. Short term memory is the little thing that completely
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Exocytosis and Neuromuscular Junction The Underlying Affect of Botox in our System Botulinum neurotoxin A‚ (BoNT-A)‚ commonly known as Botox‚ is a type of neurotoxin that targets the neuromuscular junction (Merchand-Pauvert‚ V.‚ Aymard‚ C.‚ Giboin‚ L.‚ Dominici‚ F.‚ Rossi‚ A.‚ & Mazzocchino‚ R. (2012)). The neurotoxin is produced by an anaerobic bacterium of the Clostridium protein that is very famous and commonly known as it
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