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I'm not a science expert, but common sense tell me that it's because it takes longer for the hormones to travel through the blood stream than it takes for your brain to send messages to muscles through neurons. That's just a guess though =)

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Why is nervous control faster than hormonal action?

Nervous control is faster than hormonal action because it relies on electrical impulses transmitted through neurons, allowing for immediate responses to stimuli. This rapid communication enables quick reflexes and coordination of bodily functions. In contrast, hormonal action involves the release of hormones into the bloodstream, which takes more time to reach target cells and elicit a response, resulting in slower physiological changes.


What advantage does the nervous system have over the endocrine system?

The messages of the nervous system are relayed by nervous impulses, which are very fast and short-acting. In contrast, the messages of the endocrine system are sent via chemical messengers (hormones) distributed by the circulatory system. This distribution in your blood is much slower than the electrical impulses of the nervous system.


Is endocrine signaling slower than nervous signaling?

Much, much slower generally (fractions of a second vs hours to days)


What is the differences between hormonal and neural control of the body functioning?

The nervous system regulates the activity of muscles and glands via electrochemical impulses delivered by neurons, and those organs respond within milliseconds. The endocrine system influences metabolic activity by means of hormones, which are chemical messengers released into the blood to be transported throughout the body. Binding of a hormone to cellular receptors initiates responses that typically occur after a lag period of seconds or even days. The responses tend to be much more prolonged than those induced by the nervous system.


Why are hormonal reactions generally slower than nervous reactions?

Hormones are distributed through the body by means of blood circulation, and it takes some time for a hormone that is secreted in one location of the body to diffuse through the blood sufficiently that it will reach some other specific location. In comparison, nerve impulses travel very quickly, almost instantaneously as far as our human time scale is concerned.The nervous system responses are electrical while the hormonal responses have to be released into the bloodstream


What is the difference between hormonal and nervous responses?

HormonalControl: Nervous Control:1 Involves Hormones 1 involves impulse2 Hormones transportd by blood 2 transmitted by neurons3 Slow Response 3 Immediate response4 Response can be short lived 4 Response Shortlivedor long lived5 Always involantry 5 Voluntry or involuntry6 May affect more than one target 6 Usually Localisedorganthe nervous control is short and snappy and helps to keep the nervous coordinated and the hormonal helps to keep the chemicals coordinated and takes longer to react but last longer.


Are hormones secreted in large or small amounts Are they secreted constantly or only based on the bodies demands Are their responses longer and faster or shorter and slower than the nervous system?

Hormones have a wide variety of actions, over a range of concentrations and of varying periods of time. Typically hormones provide a slower response to a stimulus than a nervous response. many hormones require a trigger that has a nervous response. most hormones act over a longer time period, these time periods are not measured in milliseconds as are nervous responses. Hormones are released when required, this means that they can be secreted over prolonged periods of time - for example the growth hormones and sex hormones. or only when needed such as the case for insulin or adrenalin (epinephrine).


Is loestrin 20 prescribed for any other reason other than birth control?

Birth control pills like LoEstrin are prescribed for a myriad of reasons, including control of irregular bleeding or excess bleeding, hormonal support, hormonal regulation, control of endometriosis, reduction in painful periods, and others.


How fast are hormonal responses?

Slower than nervous responses. Varies according to what hormone, for example the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline) works almost instantaneously to initiate increased mental alertness among other things. Some hormones take longer to take effect but most take action relatively quickly seconds -> hour


What is the three differences in the behavior of the regulatory functions of the nervous and endocrine systems?

The endocrine systems work with the nervous system but they have a few different functions. The endocrine systems use hormones not nerves, the endocrine system is slower than the nervous system because it flows through the blood not the nerves, and the endocrine system also has gland and the nervous system does not.


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