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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Nervous system

The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and processes input from the senses, and initiates actions. Prominent participants in a nervous system include neurons and nerves which play roles in such coordination. In animals without brains, the nervous system does not generate or conduct thoughts and emotions. Thus it is the system that animates "animals" (sponges are an exception). Chemicals that target the activity of nerves generally are the most rapidly act ...

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Sympathetic nervous system The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is one half of the autonomic nervous system; the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is the other. Sympathetic nervous system - Function. The sympathetic nervous system activates what is often termed the "fight or flight response". This response is also known as sympathico-adrenal response of the body, as the pre-ganglionic sympathetic fibers that end in the adrenal medulla (but also all other sympathetic fibers) secrete acetylcholine, which activates t ...

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia II - Nervous system - Vertebrate nervous systems

The nervous systems of vertebrate animals are often divided into a central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS consists of the brain and spinal cord. The PNS consists of all other nerves and neurons that do not lie within the CNS. The large majority of what are commonly called nerves (which are actually axonal processes of nerve cells) are considered to be PNS. The peripheral nervous system is divided into ...

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Central nervous system

The central nervous system (CNS) represents the largest part of the nervous system. Together with the peripheral nervous system, it has a fundamental role in the control of behavior. Since the strong theoretical influence of cybernetics in the fifties, the CNS is conceived as a system devoted to information processing, where an appropriate motor output is computed as a response to a sensory input. Yet, many threads of research suggest that motor activity exists well before the maturation of the sensory systems and then, that the senses only influence behaviour without dictating it. This h ...

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Central nervous system - Parts of the CNS

Nervous System: Encyclopedia II - Frog zoology - Nervous System

The frog has a highly developed nervous system which consists of a brain, spinal cord and nerves. Many parts of the frog's brain correspond with those of humans. The medulla regulates respiration, digestion, and other automatic functions. Muscular coordination and posture are controlled by the cerebellum. A frog has a very small cerebrum; that of a man is much larger (relatively). In humans, the cerebrum runs many important life processes. Frogs have ten cranial nerves (nerves which pass information from the outside directly to the br ...

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Ethosuximide

ethosuximide Ethosuximide is a succinimide anticonvulsant, used mainly in absence seizures. It is sold by Pfizer under the name Zarontin®. Ethosuximide - Adverse Effects. Ethosuximide - Central Nervous System. drowsiness mental confusion insomnia nervousness headache euphoria ataxia hiccups impaired concentration irritability hyperactivity

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Ethosuximide - Adverse Effects

Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Brain

In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for "in the head"), acts as the control center of the central nervous system. In most animals, the brain is located in the head close to the primary sensory apparatus and the mouth. While all vertebrate nervous systems have a brain, invertebrate nervous systems may have either a centralized brain or collections of individual ganglia. The brain is an extremely complex organ; for example, the human brain is a collection of 100 billion neurons, each linked with up to 25,000 others [1]. T ...

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Brain - Neurobiology

Brain - The study of the brain

Brain - Brain as food

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Grasshopper

Superfamily: Proscopioidea Proscopiidae Superfamily: Eumastacoidea Eumastacidae Thericleidae Superfamily: Xyronotoidea Tanaoceridae Xyrotonotidae Superfamily: Pampagoidea Pamphagidae Superfamily: Pyrgomorphoidea Pyrgomorphidae Superfamily: Trigonopteryguidea Borneancrididae Trigonopterygidae Superfamily: Acridoidea Acrididae Cy ...

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Grasshopper - Other information

Grasshopper - Source

Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Reptile

Testudines - Turtles Rhynchocephalia - Tuataras Squamata Suborder Sauria- Lizards Suborder Serpentes - Snakes Suborder Amphisbaenia - Worm lizards Crocodilia - Crocodilians Pterosauria - Flying reptiles Superorder Dinosauria Saurischia Ornithischia Reptiles are tetrapods, and also are amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane. Today they are represented by four surviving ...

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Pain

Pain is an unpleasant sensation which may be associated with actual or potential tissue damage and which may have physical and emotional components. According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), one should distinguish between pain and nociception. The term "pain" is a subjective experience that typically accompanies nociception, but can also arise without any stimulus. It includes the emotional response. Nociception, on the other hand, is a neurophysiological term and denotes specific activity in nerv ...

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Pharmacology

Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon (φάρμακον) meaning drug, and logos (λόγος) meaning science) is the study of how chemical substances interact with living systems. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals. The field encompasses drug composition and properties, interactions, toxicology, therapy, and medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities. The science is considered to have been invented by Arabic physicians in Baghdad during the Golden Age of Islam; phar ...

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Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Acanthocephala

Palaeacanthocephala Eoacanthocephala The Acanthocephala (gr. Acanthus - thorn Kephale - head) is a phylum of parasitic worms, characterised by the presence of an evertable proboscis, armed with spines, which it uses to pierce and hold the gut wall of its host. Acanthocephalans typically have complex life cycles, involving a number of hosts, including invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, birds, and mammals. About 850 species have been described. Acanthocephala - Morpho ...

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Acanthocephala - Morphological Characteristics

Acanthocephala - Life Cycles

Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) and various other names, is a syndrome of unknown and possibly multiple etiology, affecting the central nervous system (CNS), immune, and many other systems and organs. Most definitions other than the 1991 UK "Oxford", require a number of features, the most common being severe mental and physical depletion, which according to the 1994 Fukuda definition is "unrelieved by rest", and is usually made worse by even trivial exertion (controver ...

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Chronic fatigue syndrome - Diagnosis

Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Cholinergic

A synapse is cholinergic if it uses acetylcholine as its neurotransmitter. The parasympathetic nervous system is entirely cholinergic. A cholinergic agent, also known as a parasympathomimetic is a chemical which functions to enhance the effects mediated by acetylcholine in the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system, or both. These include the acetylcholine receptor agonists musca ...

Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Sympathetic

The word sympathetic means different things in different contexts. In neurology, the sympathetic nervous system is a part of the autonomic nervous system. In music theory, sympathetic strings are strings on a musical instrument that resonate on their own. In psychology, sympathy is a feeling of compassion or identification with another. Other related archivesautonomic nervous system, music theory, musical instrument, neurology, psychology, resonate, sympa

Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Endocrine system

The endocrine system is a control system of ductless endocrine glands that secrete chemical messengers called hormones that circulate within the body via the bloodstream to affect distant organs. It does not include exocrine glands such as salivary glands, sweat glands and glands within the gastrointestinal tract. The field of medicine that deals with disorders of endocrine glands is endocrinology, a branch of the wider field of internal medicine. Endocrine system - Physiology. The endocrine s ...

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Endocrine system - Role in disease

Nervous System: Encyclopedia - Afferent nerve

In the nervous system, afferent nerves carry nerve impulses towards the brain. This term is also used to describe relative connections between nervous structures. A touch or painful stimulus, for example, creates a sensation in the brain only after information about the stimulus travels there via afferent nerve pathways. Efferent nerves carry information away from the brain. In the peripheral nervous system, nerves are dedicated e ...