THE NERVOUS SYSTEM - University of Cincinnati

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

COMPILED BY HOWIE BAUM

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

The nervous system is the most complex body system !!

Constantly alive with electricity, the nervous system is the body's prime communication and coordination network.

It is so vast and complex that, an estimate is that all the individual nerves from one body, joined end to end, could reach around the world two and a half times.

The Brain and Spinal Cord are the Central Nervous System.

Nerves and Sensory Organs Make Up the Peripheral Nervous System.

Together, the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous systems (PNS) transmit and process sensory information and coordinate bodily functions.

The brain and spinal cord (the CNS) function as the control center.

They receive data and feedback from the sensory organs and from nerves throughout the body, process the information, and send commands back out.

Nerve pathways of the PNS carry the incoming and outgoing signals.

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