NAME___________
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
NAME___________
7.
ANATOMY OF A NEURON with a MYELIN SHEATH
Nerve Part
SOMA (cell body)
Function / Description
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
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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
AXON
AFFERENT
EFFERENT
INTERNEURON
12.
13.
DEFINITION AND LOCATION OF GANGLION
4 types of SENSORY RECEPTORS and what they sense.
SENSE
NAKED NERVE ENDINGS
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MEISSNER CORPUSCLES
PACINIAN CORPUSCLES
PROPRIOCEPTORS
14.
3 SHAPES OF NEURONS Which shape are motor, sensory and interneurons?
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLES
MULTIPOLAR
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?
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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?
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DESCRIPTION / FUNCTION
DURAMATER
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 I
CRANIAL NERVE II
CRANIAL NERVE III
CRANIAL NERVE IV
CRANIAL NERVE V
CRANIAL NERVE X
27.
NAME___________
Know what CEREBROSPINAL FLUID does and where it is made
28
Know the location of the 4 Ventricles
Location
Left 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
DESCRIPTION
AXON
ENDONEURIUM
FASCICLE
PERINEURIUM
NERVE
EXONEURIUM
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32.
33.
Know how many SPINAL NERVES there are and what the definition of a RAMI
KNOW THE 4 PLEXUS AND THE MAJOR NERVES OF EACH
34
Know the following brain and spinal injuries
CAUSE AND
CONCUSSION
CONTUSION
CEREBRAL EDEMA
INTERCRANIAL HEMORRHAGE
STROKE
NAME___________
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
NAME___________
39.
Know the Actions of the SYMPATHETIC AND PARASYMPATHETIC
NERVOUS SYSTEMS ON THE FOLLOWING ORGANS
ORGAN
PARASYMPATHETIC
SYMPATHETIC
EYES
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.