Nervous and peripheral systems
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- Created on: 09-04-21 12:39
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- Nervous and peripheral systems
- Central command
- Brain
- responsible for integrating most sensory information and coordinating body function
- This happens through conscious and unconscious actions
- maintenance of homeostasis
- complex functions such as thinking and feeling are based in the brain
- Spinal Cord
- serves as a conduit for signals between the brain and the rest of the body.
- control simple musculoskeletal reflexes without input from the brain
- Other parts of the brain
- The Cerebellum
- managing posture, balance, and importantly for us the coordination of movement
- Hypothalamus and pituitary gland
- located very closely together, and their function is linked
- Hypothalamus
- regulation of body temperature (thermoregulation)
- release of hormones
- maintaining daily physiological cycles (circadian and diurnal rhythms)
- pituitary gland
- The hypothalamus controls the pituitary
- secretes or controls other glands that secrete incredibly important hormones
- This connection is termed the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
- The Cerebellum
- Brain
- Central command
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