RNSG 1363 Week 3 – Neuroscience Study Guide Graded A 2025

RNSG 1363 Week 3 – Neuroscience Study Guide Graded A 2025 Week 3 – Neuroscience The chief function of the body carries the brain around. -Edison What is neuroscience? • Scientific way of studying how the nervous system works • How the nervous system carry out is its function • Nervous system: consists of 2 main systems o CNS: Central nervous system brain and spinal cord ▪ Integrates sensory information to make a decision. o PNS: Peripheral nervous system rest of the nerves that are connected to the brain orspinal cord branch through the o body. ▪ Nerves that initially detect external signals. • Integration/Association: o Detect information from the environment o Receive information to o Visual system, factory system. o Generate response according to input: MOTOR RESPONS • Thoughts, perceptions, behaviors, and CONSCIOUSNESS. • Sensory organs: o Eye: Visual o Ear: Sound o Skin: Haptic, touch o Noise: smell o Tongue: taste • PNS and CNS exchange information to keep the process going o Afferent (sensory) nerves: From sensory organs to CNS o Efferent (motor) nerves: From CNS to sensory organs