NERVOUS SYSTEM Neurons

-are nerve cells

Nervous System Overview
-specialized cells designed to stimulate other cells
in the body in order to communicate
NERVOUS SYSTEM
-Your nervous system is your body’s command
STRUCTURE OF A NEURON
center. Originating from your brain, it controls
your movements, thoughts, and automatic
responses to the world around you. It also
CLASSIFICATION OF NEURON
controls other body systems and processes,
such as digestion, breathing and sexual
Function
development (puberty). Diseases, accidents,
• Sensory (afferent) neuron
toxins and the natural aging process can
• Interneuron (association)
damage your nervous system.
• Motor neuron
FUNCTION
Structure
Your nervous system uses specialized cells to
• Unipolar neurons
send signals, or messages, all over your
• Bipolar neurons
body. These electrical signals travel
• Multipolar neurons
between your brain, skin, organs, glands
and muscles

3 principles OF NERVOUS SYSTEM

 Sensory Input
 Integration
 Motor Output

CELLS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Neuron
-The functional unit of the nervous system is the
nerve cell, or neuron
Neurons have three fundamental
physiological properties
1. Excitability
2. Conductivity
3. Secretion
A typical neuron is divided into three
parts;
 Soma or cell body (perikaryon)
 Dendrites
 Axon

Neuroglia
-Neuroglia or glial are supportive cells in the
nervous system that aid the function of
neurons
NEUROGLIA (Glia)
-There are six types of supportive cells
Four occur in the CNS
1. Oligodendrocytes
2. Microglia
3. Ependymal cells
4. Astrocytes
Two occur in the PNS
1. Schwann cells (Neurilemmocytes)
2. Satellite cells