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- What is included in the PNS?
- Somatic NS-sends/receives messages and voluntary movement. Autonomic NS-digest,hr, breathing, homeo.
- How is the ANS broken down into?
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Sympathetic NS-fight or flight
Parasympathetic NS-energy conserving-relaxed - How does biofeedback work?
- It helps increase the parasympathetic NS or decrease the sympathetic arousal.
- What does the CNS consist of?
- Spinal Cord and Brain (1)Cerebrum=Cerebral Cortex and Subcortical Brain, (2)Cerebellum and (3) Brainstem
- Where do afferent neurons go?
- To the brain
- Where do efferent neurons go?
- Away from the brain
- Name the parts of the spinal cord
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C-1 to C-7 Cervical
T-1 to T-12 Thoracic
L1 to L4 Lumbar
S1 Sacral - Damage to C1 to C5 causes a person to be
- a quadraplegic
- Damage at C6 to C7 causes
- a paraplegic
- What happens if an injury is at T1 or down?
- Paraplegic
- A man is paralyzed from the waist down, how does this affect him sexually?
- He can attain an erection, but may or may not be able to ejaculate.
- What fxs does the left hemisphere have?
- 97% rational, analytical, logical and abstract.
- What fxs does the right hemisphere have?
- Perceptual, visual spatial, artistic, muscial, inituition and possibly emotion.
- What is Gerstmann' symdrome?
- Lesions of the dom. parietal lobe =results in agraphia, acalculia, rt/left disorient and finger agnosia.
- What does the subcortical consist of?
- Thalamus, hypothal, pituitary and limbic system (hypothal, amygdala, septum, parts of thal, parts of frontal and temp lobe.