Central Nervous System Summary

The central nervous system is consisting of the brain, spinal cord and then there is the peripheral nervous system, which of course is separated into two systems, somatic nervous system is broken into the afferent and efferent nerves and autonomic nervous system. The somatic nervous system is broken down into the afferent and efferent nerves. Afferent is signals traveling towards the spinal cord, and efferent signals travel towards the brain. Then of course, the autonomic nervous system has afferent and efferent nerves since of course information must be relayed between the spin and the brain. The efferent nerves can then can be further separated into two more systems called the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.

This might help people remember where the signal comes from and goes, it helps me to remember.

When I took neuroscience at UNCC we mainly discussed the CNS and the PNS and especially efferent nerves. The class mainly focused on the Motor neurons of walking and being upright, the motor and sensory neurons involved in maintaining posture. Your discussion of the neurons and the cell structure of a neuron was a review for me from numerous courses, since I am a Biology major. Most of your video was a review for me.

Therefore, what I find surprising is how little you discussed what we discussed in neuroscience is such great breadth and you spent a lot of time on the structure and function of the brain. This of course was what we talked about in Neurobiology.

Of course, I was not surprised about the general layout of the brain since I have taken Neurobiology.

What I really appreciate is how you told us to correctly pronounce sulcus, since I am forever mispronouncing things since much of my knowledge comes from reading not direct