What is Neuroanatomy?

Neuroanatomy is the study of the structure of the nervous system, both at the macroscopic level, as well as tissu
es, cells, and neural connections.
The nervous system
The nervous system transmits signals between the brain and the rest of the body, including internal organs.
In this way, nervous system activity controls the ability to move, breathe, see, think, and more. The basic unit of
the nervous system is a nerve cell, or neuron.
The central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
The peripheral nervous system is made up of all the nerves that branch from the spinal cord and extend to all
parts of the body.
Brain hemispheres
Left hemisphere: is responsible for producing language, numerical ability, reasoning, scientific ability, and
right hand control.
Right hemisphere: is responsible for three-dimensional perception, novel information processing, imagination,
functions of artistic ability and control of the left hand.
Brain lobes
Front: it is motor cut. It is responsible for reasoning, thinking and personality.
Parietal: it is somatosensory in nature. It is responsible for perception touch, pain and temperature, among
others.
Temporary: it is closely related to the processes of hearing, smell, language and memory.
Occipital: is responsible for processing visual information (perception).
Neurons
eurons are the functional cells of nervous tissue, they interconnect chemically and electrically (synapses), and
form networks of communication that transmit signals through defined areas of the system highly strung
 Receive signals from sensory receptors.
 Conduct these signals as nerve impulses.
 Transmit the signals to other neurons or to effector cells.
Synapse
It is the process in which a neuron transmits the message or impulse nerve to another effector neuron,
interconnecting chemically or electric.
electrical: The transmission of the first neuron with the second is not produced by secretion of a
neurotransmitter
Chemistry: occurs through cells that are separated from each other by a space called the "synaptic cleft" and
the neural communication occurs through neurotransmission