Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Nervous System (NS) &
The Endocrine System (ES)
- The Nervous System
- Definitions
- NS - has central nervous
system and peripheral
nervous system,
communicates through
electrical signals
- Central Nervous System - has the
brain and spinal cord, origin of all
complex commands/ decisions
- Peripheral Nervous System - sends info to CNS
from outside world, transmits messages from
CNS to muscles and glands in body
- Somatic Nervous System -
transmits info from receptor cells
in the sense organs to CNS, also
receives info from CNS that directs
muscles to act
- Autonomic Nervous System - transmits info
to and from internal bodily organs,
'automatic' and has 2 main divisions:
sympathetic and parasympathetic NS
- Peripheral Nervous System
- The PNS transmits messages via
millions of neurons to and from the CNS
- Autonomic NS governs vital
function in body such as
breathing
- Somatic NS controls muscle movement
and receives info from sensory
receptors
- Central Nervous System
- Made up of brain
and spinal cord
- Brain is centre of consciousness and the brain's
outlayer called the cerebral cortex is highly
developed and is what distinguishes our higher
mental functions and the brain is split in two
hemispheres
- The spinal cord is an extension of
the brain and responsible for reflex
actions such as pulling your hand
away from a hot plate
- The Endocrine System
- Definitions
- Gland - organ in the body
that synthesises substances
such as hormones
- Fight or Flight Response - way an
animal responds when stressed,
body becomes physiologically
aroused in readiness to fight or flee
- Adrenaline - hormones produced by
adrenal gland part of the body's
immediate stress response and it has a
strong effect on the cells of the
cardiovascular system
- ES - one of body's major info systems
that tells glands to release hormones
into bloodstream and these
hormones are carried to target
organs in body, communicates
thorugh chemicals
- Hormones - chemical substances that circulate
in bloodstream and only affect target organs,
they're produced in large quantities but
disappear quickly and effects very powerful
- Glands and hormones
- NS and ES work to control
vital functions in body
- ES works slower than NS but has
widespread and powerful effects
- Glands in body (thyroid
gland) produce hormones
- Hormone secreted into
bloodstream and affects any
cell with that receptor
- Thyroid gland produced hormone
thyroxine which affects cell in heart
(increase HR) and affects cells in body
increasing metabolic rates and affects
growth rate
- Main gland is pituitary gland (PG) in brain or
'master gland' because it controls the
release of hormones from all the other
endocrine glands in body
- Fight or Flight
- Endocrine and autonomic nervous
system work together during
stressful event
- When stressful thing happens, hypothalamus
actives PG and activates sympathetic (f&f) state
aposed to the normal parasympathetic state (r&d)
- Adrenaline gets released into
bloodstream and it triggers
physiological changes in the
body which creates
physiological arousal for F&F
- This happens in an instant when threat is found
(the acute response and automatic reaction in the
body) with reactions being increased heart rate,
increased breathing rate etc
- Once threat passed, the body will
return to its parasympathetic state,
its actions are antagonistic to the
sympathetic system and reduces
the activities of the body (R&D)
- Human Nervous System
- Peripheral Nervous System
- Autonomic
Nervous System
- Sympathetic
Nervous System
- Parasympathetic
Nervous System
- Somatic
Nervous
System
- Central Nervous System
- Brain
- Spinal Cord