the nervoussystem
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THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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• Brain
WHAT PARTS DO YOU KNOW THAT ARE IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM?
• Spinal Cord
• Peripheral Nerves
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What makes up the brain, the spinal cord or your peripheral nerves?
• Neurons are “the cell”• Cell body• Nucleus• Axon• Dendrite• What do you think
surrounds the cell?• What other organelles
would be needed?
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How are neurons connected?
• Synapses!!
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Why are neurons connected?
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More neuron connections!
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AXON
The synapse - where the action happens
The next cell’s plasma membrane
What is this in the membrane?
Transport protein
Close up look at your synapse
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How does the Synapse carry the signal?
1. Electrical current travels down the axon
2. Vesicles with chemicals move toward the membrane - what is that called?
3. Chemicals are released and diffuse toward the next cell’s plasma membrane
4. The chemicals open up the transport proteins and allow the signal to pass to the next cell - what type of diffusion is this?
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The synapse carries a signal from cell to cell
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There are lots of proteins and chemicals in your body to do the work
Why is it important that it is an electrical current?
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Are all neurons equal in size?• Brain vs spinal cord vs peripheral nerves?
About how many neurons are in the human brain?
100 billion
1 billion
around 15 feet
About how many neurons are in the spinal cord?
How long do you think the longest axon in the world is?
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How many synapses are in one neuron? 1,000 to 10,000!!
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This science is called Neurobiology• Looking at the actual cells - how do they work?• Looking at the connections - how and when do they work?• Looking at what can change normal cells and connections• Looking at diseases that occur in the brain• One of the largest areas still unknown• The you that is you is because of your neurons connecting!
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What do you think can change neurons and their connections?
• Accidents• Drugs• Alcohol• Disease
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Accidents
• Physical injury of your neurons
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Drugs and alcohol bind important receptors on neurons
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Repeated binding causes the neuron to die
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Drugs = neuron death
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Alcohol damages dendrites - can repair after abstinence
Alcohol blocks receptors and slows down transmission
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•Parkinson's Disease•ALS - Lou Gehrig’s Disease•Huntington’s Disease•Multiple Sclerosis•Alzheimer's•Cerebral Palsy•Epilepsy•? SIDS
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100 Billion or so neurons - what’s the problem with some of them dying?•Cells multiply all the time - will your neurons?•Does everyone react the same way to accidents, or drugs and alcohol?•Do all organisms react the same to all stimulus?•Which of your activities use your neurons?
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What if neurons die here?
or hereor here
or here
or here
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Neurobiology Activities and Labs
• What Does Your "Homunculus" Look Like? (www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1991/homunculus.html)
• Effect of Environment on Memory (http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/brown_memory.html)
• Taste Activity (http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/flash/fun_n_games/activities/experiments/experiment_truly_tasteless.html)
• A healthy brain? - Caffeine activity (http://www.pfizer.com/brain/teachers_html.html)
• Pillbug behavior Lab - (http://www.udel.edu/msmith/pillbugs.html)
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REFERENCES• http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html• http://occawlonline
.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/campbell6e_awl/chapter0/deluxe.html• JOSHSANESPPT.PPT• www.alfamilyties.org/presentations/The%20Neurobiology%20of%
20Adolescent%20Substance%20Abuse%20II.ppt
• http://www.nsbri.org/Education/High_Act.html• http://www.pfizer.com/brain/teachers_html.html• http://www.research.buffalo.edu/quarterly/vol10/num01/n1.shtml• http://www.aim-digest.com/gateway/pages/brain/articles/myths.htm• http://www.nida.nih.gov/pubs/teaching/Teaching5/Teaching3.html• http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/• http://psych.colorado.edu/~kenth/Image14.gif