The autonomic nervous system is responsible for the control of the functions of the internal organs and it has two divisions. These are the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
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The autonomic nervous system is responsible for the control of the functions of the internal organs and it has two divisions. These are the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
Depending on what nervous system you are talking about and how complicated you want to get, there can be many answers. In the central nervous system it is comprised of the brain and spinal cord. The Peripheral nervous system is comprised of everything outside of that... so that means all of your nerves and such going to and from sensory and motor locations of the body. there are two more divisions of the peripheral nervous system. autonomic and somatic nervous systems The autonomic includes heart and breathing an stuff like that. Somatic is divided once more into sympathetic and parasympathetic which controls the rest of everything that is happening.
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The nervous system controls many things, almost everything in our bodies. Here is a list that probably could be much longer:BehaviorCognitionMemoryEmotionsMetabolismHomeostasisDigestionRespirationHeart rateBlood pressureand much more...
It's also known as "visceral nervous system" which unconsciously and involuntary controls your visceral functions (heart and respiration rates, digestion, salivation, and many others).
It's also known as "visceral nervous system" which unconsciously and involuntary controls your visceral functions (heart and respiration rates, digestion, salivation, and many others).
You could say there are 2, The Central Nervous System(CNS), & the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS).To be more inclusive, here is a list of human nervous systems:The Central Nervous System (CNS), the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS),the Somatic Nervous System (SNS), the Autonomic Nervous System, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Parasympathetic Nervous System.That would make a total of 6, although the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic are parts of the Autonomic Nervous system, which could mean a total of 4, and the Autonomic is itself a part of the Peripheral Nervous System, which would bring the total back to 2.The Central Nervous System is comprised of the brain and the spinal cord;the Peripheral Nervous System connects the CNS to other parts of the body, and is comprised of the Somatic Nervous System and the Autonomic Nervous System;the Somatic Nervous System includes all the nerves controlling the body's muscular system, and sensory nerves;the Autonomic Nervous System consists of motor neurons which control internal organs, and is comprised of two sub-systems, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Parasympathetic Nervous System;the Sympathetic Nervous System is involved in the fight-or-flight response, and the Parasympathetic Nervous System is involved in relaxation.
The autonomic nervous system also has two divisions: the sympathetic division and the parasympatheticdivision. These two divisions have antagonistic (opposing) effects on the internal organs they innervate (send nerves to act on).The sympathetic division, shown at the left, is the emergency system. It prepares the body to put out energy and to protect it from effects of injury. It shuts the gut down, speeds up the heart, increases blood pressure, dilates (makes bigger) the pupils of the eyes, makes more glucose (blood sugar) available in the blood for energy, etc. Cannon described these reactions as preparation for fight or flight (running away).The parasympathetic division, shown at the right, is the "housekeeping" division. It acts to replace and recover from the activities of living. Its action is (almost always) the opposite of the sympathetic division. It activates the gut for digestion, slows the heart rate, decreases the blood pressure, etc.
D. Cerebellum \ It functions as a regulator of timing of movements. It integrates sensory perception and motor output. Many neural pathways link the cerebellum with the motor cortex - which sends information to the muscles causing them to move - and the spinocerebellar tract - which provides feed-back on the position of the body in space (proprioception). The cerebellum integrates these pathways, using the constant feed-back on body position to fine-tune motor movements. Studies of motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex and eyeblink conditioning demonstrate that the timing and amplitude of learnt movements are encoded by the cerebellum
You could define 5 parts by saying they are:the central nervous system, and the somatic, sympathetic, parasympathetic and entericnervous systems.However, a better way of describing the parts of the nervous system is todivide it into two main parts and then sub-parts:the main parts:the Central Nervous System (CNS, brain & spine),and the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS, all the nerves and neurons outside the brain and spine).Then the peripheral nervous system is divided intothe somatic nervous system (nerves which control the voluntary muscles) andthe autonomic nervous system (nerves which control visceral functions or organs like the heart or stomach);and the autonomic nervous system is itself divided into thesympathetic (fight-or-flight emergency response),parasympathetic (relaxation),and enteric (digestive) nervous systems.
The autonomic nervous system and its two divisions: the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, control the activities of the internal organs. The role of the sympathetic is to activate what is called the alarm response, and the parasympathetic activates the relaxation response. These two activities either turn on, or turn off, certain internal processes. All of these internal processes are regulated by the hypothalamus gland in the brain, which regulates homeostasis: the balance of the internal environment of a multi-cell organism.