AUTONOMIC
AUTONOMIC
AUTONOMIC
MANAGE TOPICS
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS
SYSTEM (INVOLUNTARY)
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this session, the student would be able to:
• Contrast the structure of the autonomic nervous system and the somatic motor system
• Name the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system and describe the anatomical and neurotransmitter
differences between them.
• Compare and contrast the general functions of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system.
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Autonomic Nervous System Somatic Nervous System
(Involuntary) (Voluntary)
Sympathetic
- secrete the
neurotransmitter
norepinephrine
Parasympathetic
- secrete the
neurotransmitter
acetylcholine
FUNCTIONS OF
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS
SYTEM
Relaxes airways, which lets you breathe more deeply Constricts airways
Increases blood flow to skeletal muscles Reduces blood flow to skeletal muscles
What’s Reporting?
MANAGE TOPICS
REPRESENTATIVE DISEASES
AND DISORDER: NERVOUS
SYSTEM
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this session, the student would be able to:
• Identify the diseases associated with nervous system
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• inflammation caused by a virus and less often by bacteria or other
agents.
• Symptoms include fever, coma, and convulsions
• Inflammation of meninges caused by viral or bacterial infection.
• Symptoms include headache and fever; severe cases can cause
paralysis, coma, or death
• Autoimmune condition; may be initiated by viral infection
inflammation in brain and spinal cord with demyelination and
sclerotic (hard) sheaths result in poor conduction of action
potentials.
• Symptoms include exaggerated reflexes, tremor, and speech defect.
• Caused by a lesion in basal nuclei; characterized by
muscular rigidity, resting tremor, general lack of movement,
and a slow shuffling gait.
• Mental deterioration or dementia; usually affects older
people; involved loss of neurons in the cerebral cortex.
• Symptoms include general intellectual deficiency, memory
loss, short attention span, moodiness, disorientation, and
irritability.
• Family of diseases characterized by skin lesions due to
herpes viruses in sensory ganglia; different viruses cause
oral lesions (cold sores), sexually transmitted diseases with
lesions on genitalia, or chickenpox in children (shingles in
adults).
• Viral infection of CNS; damage somatic motor neurons,
leaving muscles with innovation, and leads to paralysis and
atrophy.
• Autoimmune disorder affecting acetylcholine receptors;
makes the neuromuscular junction less functional; muscle
weakness and increased fatigue lead to paralysis.