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One important aspect of reflex action is to help protect us without having to think. Reflex actions are involuntary and quick. They are done to meet an emergency and occur at the level of the spinal cord. Examples include the gag reflex clearing unplanned foreign objects or your eyelid closing when something gets near your eye.
A reflex action is an action that happens almost instantly without conscious thought. Grasp a very hot handle of a saucepan on the stove, and you immediately release the handle to avoid further burning by reflex action.
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Involuntary actions are movements or processes that occur automatically without conscious control, such as heartbeat or digestion. Reflex actions are quick, automatic responses to a stimulus that involve a specific neural pathway, like withdrawing your hand from a hot stove.
One important aspect of reflex action is to help protect us without having to think. Reflex actions are involuntary and quick. They are done to meet an emergency and occur at the level of the spinal cord. Examples include the gag reflex clearing unplanned foreign objects or your eyelid closing when something gets near your eye.
Instead of being processed in the brain, a reflex arc is processed in the vertebra, this allows for faster reflexes. Example of when the reflex arc is used is when a person touches a hot stove. The immediate response (which the reflex arc causes) is to pull away, but it doesn't really hurt till a few seconds after. This is because the brain was first bypassed, but has now had time to process what happened.
The Achilles reflex is also known as the ankle jerk reflex. If the Achilles tendon is tapped, the foot should jerk towards its plantar surface.
The reflex arc allows sensory neurons to synapse in the spinal cord instead of the brain, allowing actions to occur relatively quickly by activating spinal motor neurons without needing to send signals through the brain. For example, a person touching a hot stove would flinch before thinking about it, and protect tissues from further damage.
Ahh, ok. I just remembered that you divide the distance by speed to get time taken. So the answer would be 1.5 / 75 = 0.02 seconds.
Reflex action means a reaction you have given involuntarily. If you touch the immensely painful object, the touching hand or foot is removed away with out your knowledge. Here three neurons are involved. 1) Afferent 2) In the spinal cord 3) Efferent. This is called as reflex arc. Simultaneously information goes to higher centers and you notice the the problem, later on. So reflex action occurs at the level of spinal cord only.
Yes, an action potential is needed for a nerve impulse to occur.
Yes, an action potential is needed for a nerve impulse to occur.