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Behavioral state control is thus a fundamental |
intrinsic brain activity. |
Another aspect of behavioral |
state—arousal—is especially important during wake- |
fulness. |
Here, reinforcement |
depends on sensory feedback about a particular behav- |
I. |
NEUROSCIENCE |
ior’s consequences (Fig. |
Thus, neurotransmitter systems |
are not functional systems in the traditional sense. |
Responses in these |
other systems produce “side effects” that may be good |
or bad. |
Two major features complicate this simple network |
model. |
And second, sensory infor- |
mation also reaches the intrinsic and cognitive |
systems. |
In fact, all three input systems are inter- |
connected bidirectionally. |
OVERVIEW OF THE ADULT MAMMALIAN NERVOUS SYSTEM 31 |
32 2. |
BASIC PLAN OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM |
I. |
The full |
morphology of individual neurons was visible for the |
fi rst time (Fig. |
The Golgi stain thus reveals |
more by staining less. |
Photoreceptors detect light and their axon innervates |
bipolar cells. |
Photoreceptors are classical |
sensory neurons (Fig. |
2.3), bipolar cells are local interneurons, and ganglion cells are projection interneurons. |
Also note a second retinal local |
interneuron class, amacrine cells (f). |
I. |
NEUROSCIENCE |
cut, suggesting retrograde transport of “trophic |
factors” from axon to cell body. |
By the 1950s selective silver impregnation and |
degeneration methods were combined by Walle J.H. |
Nauta and colleagues to stain unmyelinated axons and |
their terminal fi elds. |
2.13). |
BASIC PLAN OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM |
I. |
NEUROSCIENCE |
where nerves converge and redistribute axons to their |
target organs. |
The ANS has anatomically and functionally sympa- |
thetic and parasympathetic divisions (Chapter 35). |
The |
two divisions function in a kind of push-pull relation- |
ship with each other. |
One or the other is never com- |
pletely on or off. |
Instead, there are degrees of |
sympathetic and parasympathetic tone. |
During sleep, |
certain involuntary functions like digestion are accel- |
erated. |
In contrast, Walter B. |
In contrast, parasympathetic system is rela- |
tively fi nely tuned. |
This enumeration |
varies between species. |
The glossopharyngeal (IX) nerve |
innervates the pharynx and mediates the swallowing |
refl ex. |
In |
I. |
This corrugation allows cerebral (and |
cerebellar) cortex to have a larger surface area. |
These lobes are only crude guides to the cerebrum’s |
functional organization. |
2.20), although refi nements and |
alternative interpretations abound. |
The drawings were probably executed by an artist from Titian’s studio. |
OVERVIEW OF THE ADULT MAMMALIAN NERVOUS SYSTEM 35 |
36 2. |
BASIC PLAN OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM |
I. |
The pia (“faithful”) is a very thin, vascular mem- |
brane. |
In certain CNS regions neural tissue is absent but |
meninges persist. |
I. |
Blood fl ow through |
sinuses is slow and under low hydrostatic pressure. |
Another approach follows the vertebrate nervous |
system’s development from embryo to adult. |
At early |
developmental stages the CNS of all vertebrates has |
the same basic structure. |
As this is written, the |
relationship between CNS macroregionalization (Figs. |
2.14 and 2.15) and functional systems (Fig. |
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