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Somatic nervous system example pdf#
If you're looking for a PDF to print and scribble on, or a google doc to edit, check out this repository of print resources here! Procedure Heart Rate Ice Water Experiment Many of these reactions in both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are controlled by hormones, which can be helpful to think of as "neurotransmitters" but that enter the bloodstream instead of the synaptic cleft to find their targets, and instead of response times of 1 ms in the brain, hormones have response times in the scale of seconds to minutes on multiple structures in the body.
What happens in "fight or flight?" As you can imagine, if faced with a threat, say, a large shadow moving in the night, the heart rate increases, sweating begins, respiration increases, digestion is inhibited, the eyes dilate, and many other things.Īlternatively, the parasympathetic activates the "rest and digest" response, which performs the opposite of all the things listed above (heart rate decreases, digestion activates, salivation increases, etc). Let's go a little deeper into heart rate physiology and try to specifically activate your sympathetic nervous system's "fight or flight" response. In our previous heart experiment we observed the electrical impulses of the heart and the increase in heart rate during exercise. We can study the effects of the sympathetic nervous activation by measuring heart rate.
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