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-Nervous System
3 functions of the nervous system:
-Receives and relays information
-Monitors and responds to internal and external changes
-Controls and coordinates all body functions

Sensory: become aware of stimuli: change in environment
Integative: memory, emotions, conscience, decisions
Response: muscles, what did you do?

Neuron- (nerve cell) cells that carry messages throughout the nervous system
Nerve impulse- electrical signals, coded method from neuron

Sensory neuron: neuron that carries impulses from the sense organs to the brain and spinal cord
Motor neuron: neuron that carries impulses from the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands
Interneuron: cell that connects the motor and sensory neurons (only found in brain)

Cell body- center part of the neuron that contains the nucleus and much of the cytoplasm
Dendrite- part of the neuron that is an extension from the cell body of a neuron that carries impulses from the environment to the cell body......

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