Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Myelin, Central Nervous System, Axon Terminal

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Stimulation of a sense relay to a brain interpretation via the soul relayed to muscles for action. Thus energy is taken in and reflected back out. Note: use of the soul provides a means to account for inconsistency of responses. Basic nervous functions: we agree with descartes that the bulk of human behavior is reflective, this necessitates the tripartite system. Dendrites pick up information from incoming sources then a decision is made by the cell body with the information from the dendrites. It then sends a signal through the axon. The myelin sheath insulates the axon (which is of indeterminate length) to prevent short circuiting in nerves and results in faster transmission (cells that don"t have the sheath have slower transmission) If the immune system attacks the sheath you get multiple sclerosis (degradation of the myelin sheath) The terminal endings terminate in a bunch of dendrites of other nerve cells or in effector cells (which are connected to muscles)

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