HP 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Central Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Multiple Sclerosis

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7 the nervous system : structure & control of movement. Control of the internal environment: with the endocrine system. Assimilation of experiences necessary for memory and learning (muscle memory) Central nervous system (cns: brain and spinal cord. Neurological disease that destroys myelin sheaths of axons: has genetic component, due to immune attack on myelin. Results in progressive loss of nervous system function: fatigue, muscle weakness, poor motor control, loss of balance, mental depression. Exercise can improve functional capacity: leads to improved quality of life. Duchenne multiple sclerosis : a type of multiple sclerosis that affects particularly young boys. Neurons are an excitable tissue" that have two characteristics, irritability and conductivity. Irritability: ability to respond to a stimulus and convert it to a neural impulse. Conductivity: transmission of the impulse along the axon. Ranvier to the next node of ranvier: synapse : the gap between the presynaptic neuron and the postsynaptic neuron. Atp is required to maintain a resting membrane potential.

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