Central Nervous System BRAIN

Process all information received from our sense
organs and reacts as necessary.
 Consisting of the brain and the spinal cord.
A major component of central nervous system and the
most complex organ in the body.
 Brain uses an average 140 billion nerve cells,
called Neurons, to control our thought and action.
– neurons transmit information throughout the
nervous system.

Spinal Cord
Part of central nervous system, but its primary Neurons
functions is to facilitate the sending of messages to
and from the brain.  The smallest building blocks of the brain that form
a highly complex network of information flow.
Within each neuron, information is transmitted
through electrical impulses, called action
potentials, traveling along the axon. – the end of
Typical neurons contains a central cell body
the axon is called terminal button.
with two kinds of branches; Dendrites and Axon
 Neurons are not connected directly to each other.
Dendrites There is a small space through which the impulse
must pass to get to the next neurons – space
 Have numerous receptors that received messages
between the terminal button of one new neuron
in the form of chemical impulses from other nerve
and the dendrite of another is called synaptic
cells, which converted into electrical impulse.
cleft.
Axon
 Transmits electrical impulses from the cell body
travel away to be received by other neurons. This
help with sensory perception and movement. Any
one nerve cell may have multiple connections to
other neurons – these connections are called
synapses.