Physiology 2130 Lecture Notes - Excitatory Postsynaptic Potential, Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential, Axon Hillock
25 Feb 2013
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Nervous system consists of: central nervous system (cns) Brain and spinal cord: peripheral nervous system (pns) Nerves outside the cns that go to muscles and organs. Somatomotor nervous system: nerves going to skeletal muscles. Autonomic nervous system: nerves going to organs. The outside of the cns that go to the muscles and organs called pns. Chemical synapse: the junction between two nerves. Sends signals to activate muscles in the right side of the body. Sensory information from the right side of the body travels to the left hemisphere. Sends signals to activate muscles in the left side of the body. Sensory information travels from left side of the body travels to. Controls most basic functions of the body right hemisphere i. e. heart rate, respiration. Made of: the midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata which is continuous with the spinal cord. At posterior and just above the brain stem. On the surface of the brain, there are:
