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Information monitored and gathered from inside and outside the body
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Sensory Input
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What is Integration?
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Processing of sensory input
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A response sent out to body through efferent pathway to organs like muscles or glands
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Motor output
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CNS defintion.... made up of what?
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Central Nervous System..... brain and spinal cord
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What is the structure and function of the CNS?
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Structure: Brain and Spinal Cord
Function: Control Center and Integration of Sensory Input |
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What are the 5 levels of awareness (from basic to vital) of the CNS
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1. Spinal Cord
2. Brain Stem 3. Brain 4. Limbic System 5. Cortex/Neocortex |
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What part of the CNS handles simple jobs like basic reflexes, urination, or knee-jerk?
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The Spinal Cord
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What part of the CNS handles vital signs/functions like swallowing, coughing, heart rate, or blood pressure?
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The Brain Stem
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What part of the CNS contains centers for homeostasis like Thalamus, Hypothalamus, Pituitary, and Pineal glands?
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The Brain
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What part of the CNS handles emotions like fear, sex drive, submission, domination, sympathy, empathy, learning, and intuition (gut feeling/warning signs)?
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The Limbic System
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What part of the CNS handles consiousness, voluntary orders of movement?
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The Cortex
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What part of the CNS handles higher functions like language, complex thoughts, and spacial reasoning?
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The Neocortex
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What 2 regions of the CNS are connected with regard to psychosomatic diseases?
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The Brain (homeostasis)
The Limbic System (emotions) |
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What are the effector organs in the motor output that produce a response?
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Muscles and Glands
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What system is a Voluntary Motor Response? Example (1)
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Somatic Nervous System or SNS
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