Muscles

Transmits signal from

Transmits impulse sensory to motor Detects stimulus Effectors Glands
to effector
Detect stimulus
neurone
Allow reaction to
Carry out a Spinal cord
Motor Relay Sensory surroundings and the
synapse synapse neurone coordination of response
neurone neurone Central
actions Receptors Nervous System
Coordinator
Brain

Function Transmission Membranes prevent

some drugs from
Subconscious reaching the brain
Reflex arc Via neurones Delicate
Complex
Importance
5.2 HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM
Fast,
Protection
automatic PART 1 Difficulties

Investigation +
Cerebellum Treatment Electrical
Brain stimulation
Balance
Structure
Medulla Methods
MRI
Coordination Muscle movement Studying patients
Cerebral Non-voluntary with brain damage
KEY cortex
movement (comparison of
Heart rate symptoms)
‘Higher tier only’
written in orange. Conscious
‘Biology only’ Personality
written in clouds.
thought
Language
Breathing rate
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 Sweating
Allows light into Shivering stops
the eye to focus on Carries impulses
the retina from the eye to
the brain Vasodilation
Sweating Vasoconstriction
increases
Cornea
Light sensitive Too low
Optic nerve Too high
layer at the back
Tough outer of the eye
layer, protects
internal
structures
Contracts/ relaxes to
control the amount of
Temperature Receptors in
Retina skin
light entering the eye
Sclera
Iris
Detects blood
Structure temperature
Control the
shape of the
5.2 HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM
lens PART 2 Coordinator
Suspensory
Stronger ligaments +
refraction ciliary muscles The eye Replacement
Accommodation Treatment lenses

Ciliary muscles Disorders

contract, suspensory Glasses
ligaments loosen, Close object Focusing Hyperopia
lens thickens Myopia Laser eye
Distant object surgery
Lens too flat
Ciliary muscles Lens too
relax, suspensory curved
KEY ligaments contract,
Light focused
Contact
lenses
lens thins Light focused in
‘Biology only’ Weaker refraction behind the
written in clouds.
front of the
retina retina AQA
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