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The nervous system
Young man: I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about my bodily functions for the most part - maybe sometimes.
But in the next few episodes, I'm going to be talking about all of the organ systems that make our lives possible, even occasionally pleasant.
To start it all off, I'm going to go straight to mission control - the nervous system.
(bouncy music) Pretty much every single animal, except for some really simple ones, have nervous systems, which is great because it's what lets things do things, like have behaviors.
It makes you the sentient living thing that you are.
The whole set-up here - your brain, your nerves, your spinal cord - everything is made up of specialized cells that you don't find anywhere else in the body. Most of those are neurons. You've seen them before.
They look kind of like a tree, with the roots, and the trunk, and the branches.
Neurons bundle together to form nerves, pathways that transmit electrochemical signals from one part of your body to another.
So, when you bit into a piece of pizza - I love it when there's pizza in the videos - the receptor neurons in my taste buds recognize I'm eating something salty, and fatty and awesome, and they carry that information along a nerve pathway to my brain.
Then, my brain can be like, "Yeah! Pizza!"
Then, it can respond by sending back information through different nerve pathways that say, "You should eat more of that pizza."
Despite what my brain is telling me, I'm going to try to not eat any more of that pizza.
You wouldn't think that it's terribly complicated to know that pizza tastes good, and to tell someone to eat more pizza, but it turns out that our brains and our nervous systems are crazy complicated.
Your nervous system, basically, has a big ol' bureaucracy of neurons and it's divided into two main departments - the central nervous system, and the peripheral nervous system. Central and peripheral.
The central nervous system, basically your brain and your spinal cord, is responsible for analyzing and interpreting all of those data that your peripheral nervous system - all of the nerves outside of your brain and spine - collects and sends its way.
Once the central nervous system makes a decision about data, it sends a signal back through to the peripheral nervous system, saying, "Do this thing," which the peripheral nervous system then does.
Both of these systems contain two different types of neurons - afferent and efferent.
Afferent and efferent are biological terms, and they're horribly confusing, and I apologize on behalf of the entire institution of biology for them.
Afferent systems carry things to a central point, and efferent systems carry things away from a central point.
So, afferent neurons carry information to the brain and spinal cord for analysis.
In the peripheral nervous system, afferent neurons are called sensory neurons, and they're activated by external stimuli, like the complex and glorious flavor of pizza, and then they convert those data into a signal for the central nervous system to process.
The central nervous system has afferent neurons, too, and there, they bring information into special parts of the brain, like the part of the brain that goes, "Hmmm, salty." that goes, "Mmmm, salt."
The efferent neurons carry information out of the center.
In the peripheral nervous system, they're called motor neurons, because many of them carry information from the brain and spinal cord to muscles to make us move, but they also go to pretty much every other organ in your body, thus making them work and do stuff to keep you alive.
In the central system, efferent neurons carry information from special parts of the brain to other parts of the brain or spinal cord.
Of course, if it ended there, it would be way too simple, and no good bureaucracy has just two departments.
So, the peripheral nervous system is actually made up of two different systems, with two very different jobs, the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system.
The somatic system controls all the stuff you think about doing, like all the information coming through your senses, and the movement of your body that it makes when you want it to make movements. But here's something interesting.
Since we're totally in love with our brains as sort of the center of all being of ourselves, we think that all the information about everything going on in our bodies goes to our brain for some kind of decision.
Not so! Sometimes, like when we touch a hot stove, the afferent neurons carry the signal, "Hot!" to the central nervous system, but that information doesn't even ever get to the brain.
The spinal cord actually makes that decision before it gets to the brain.
It sends a message directly back to the muscle, saying, "Get your hand off the friggin' stove!"
(bleeping noise) Young man: This bit of fancy nerve work lets the spinal cord make decisions, rather than the brain, and it's called the reflex loop.
So, the other branch of the peripheral nervous system, the autonomic system, carries signals from the central nervous system that drive all of the things that your body does without thinking about them - your heart beat, your digesion, breathing, saliva production, all of your organ functions.
But, we're not done yet here. We need to go deeper.
The autonomic nervous system has two divisions of its own, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.
The jobs that these two perform aren't just different.
They're completely opposite and, frankly, they're always vying for control of the body in some kind of nervous system cage match.
The sympathetic division is responsible for, like, freakin' out.
You probably heard this talked about as the fight-or-flight response - in other words, stress. But, stress isn't all bad.
It's what saves our lives when we're being chased by saber-tooth tigers, right?
The sympathetic system prepared our body for action by increasing the heart rate, and the blood pressure, enhancing our sense of smell, dilating the pupils, activating our adrenal cortex to make adrenaline, shutting down blood supply to our digestive and reproductive systems so that there'll be more blood available for our lungs and muscles when we have to, like, run!
And even though you're not in a constant state of panic - at least I hope not - I kind of am - that system's running all the time every day.
But, right next to it is the parasympathetic division, working hard to make sure we take it nice and easy.
It dials down the heart rate, and the blood pressure, constricts our lungs, makes our nose run, increases blood flow to our reproductive junk, our mouths produce saliva, encourages us to poop and pee.
That's basically what we have to thank for taking a nap sitting in front of the TV, going to the bathroom, and getting it on.
So, consider yourself lucky you got both the stress response and the chill-the-heck-out response working side-by-side, because together, they create a balance, or a homeostasis.
Now, That's what the nervous system does.
Next, we have to talk about how it does it.
The neurons that make up our nervous systems make it possible for our bodies to have their very own little electric systems.
To understand how they work, you have to understand their anatomy.
Like I've said before, the typical neuron has branches like a tree.
These are called dendrites, and they receive information from other neurons.
Neurons also have a single axon, the trunk of the tree, which is branched at the end and sends signals to other neurons.
The axon is also covered in a fatty material called myelin, which acts as insulation. The myelin sheath isn't continuous.
There are these little bits of exposed neuron along the axon, which have the sweetest names in this whole episode.
They're called the nodes of Ranvier, which seems like an excellent working title for the eighth Harry Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Nodes of Ranvier."
Anyway, these nodes allow signals to hop from node to node, which lets the signal travel down a nerve faster.
This node-hopping, by the way, has a name.
It's called saltatory condution - conduction because it's electrical conduction, and saltatory because saltatory means leaping.
Finally, the place where an axon's branches come in contact with the next cell dendrite is called a synapse.
That's where neurotransmitters pass information from one neuron to the next.
Now, think back to, or just go watch the episode that we did on cell membranes, where we talked about how materials travel down concetration gradients.
Well, in much the same way, all of the neurons in your body have a membrane potential, a difference in voltage or electrical charge between the inside and the outside of the membrane.
You might also remember that this build-up of voltage is handled in part by a sexy little protein called the sodium-potassium pump.
Basically, the pump creates a voltage differential, like charging a battery, by moving three positively-charged sodium ions out for every two potassium ions it lets in, creating a net negative charge inside the cell relative to the outside.
When a neuron is inactive, this is called its resting potential, and its voltage is at about negative 70 millivolts.
In addition to the pumps, neurons also have ion channels.
These are proteins that straddle the membranes, but they're a lot simpler and don't need ATP to power them.
Each cell can have more than 300 different kinds of ion channels, each tailored to accept a specific ion.
Now, don't zone out here because all of this stuff is going to come into play when a neuron becomes active.
This happens when an input or stimulus creates a change in the neuron that eventually reaches the axon, creating what's called an action potential, a brief event where the electrical potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls.
When an action potential begins - like when a molecule of sugar touches one of my sweet taste buds - some ion channels open and let those positive sodium ions rush in, so that the inside starts to become less negative.
With enough stimulus, the internal [unintelligible] of the neuron reaches a certain threshhold, which triggers more sodium channels to respond, and open the floodgates to let even more ions in.
That's happening on one tiny little area of the neuron, but this change in voltage creeps over to the next bunch of soium channels, which are also sensitive to voltage, and so they open.
That exchange triggers the next batch, and the next batch, and so on down the line.
This signal-changing voltage travels down the neuron's membrane like a wave.
But remember, the myelin sheath insulates most of the neurons, and just leaves those little nodes exposed.
Instead of being a steady wave, the wave jumps from node to node, speeding up the travel time of action potential down a neuron.
That's your saltatory condution at work.
When a wave reaches the end of the neuron, it triggers a release of neurotransmitters from the neuron through exocytosis.
Those neurotransmitters, then, flow across the synapse to the next neuron, where they trigger another action potential over there.
By this time, so many sodium ions have gotten inside the first neuron that the difference between the outside and the inside is actually reversed.
The inside is positive, and the outside is negative.
It seems like neurons hate that more than pretty much anything else, so it fixes itself.
The sodium channels close and the potassium channels open up.
The positive potassium ions rush down both the concentration and the electro-chemical gradients, to get the heck out of the cell.
That brings the charge inside the cell back down to negative on the inside, and positive on the outside.
Notice, though, that now the sodium is on the inside of the cell, and the potassium is on the outside, and in the opposite places of where they started.
The sodium-potassium pumps get back to work, burn up some ATP to pump the sodium back out and the potassium back in.
Whew! Things are now back at the resting potential again.
That, my friends, is how action potential allows neurons to communicate signals down a whole chain of neurons, from the outer reaches of the peripheral nervous system, all the way up the spinal cord, into the brain, and then back out again.
Let's zoom out, and look at the broad view here.
I'm gonna think about it as pizza.
All my taste buds have neurons in 'em.
Each of my taste buds contain between 50 to 100 specialized taste-receptor neurons.
Chemicals from this beautiful pizza dissolve in saliva and then stimulate the dendrites on the afferent neuron.
This generates a bunch of action-potentials that travel from the afferent neurons in my tongue, all the way to my brain, which is like, "My goodness!
I think that's pizza! Let's have another bite."
The brain then sends messages through the efferent nerve pathways to do all sorts of things.
One, chew, which involves constricting the muscles in my jaw over and over again; two, lower my head down to catch another bite, which involves moving all kinds of neck muscles; three, swallowing, which involves constricting the muscles in my throat and esophagus; four, opening my mouth again to receive another bite.
That signal is also going to my jaw, and that's not even to mention what's going to go on with the digestion of this bad boy, driven by the autonomic nervous system.
Digestion is still a couple of episodes now.
Hopefully, there will be more pizza.
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I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about my bodily functions for the most part - maybe sometimes.발음듣기
대기중
But in the next few episodes, I'm going to be talking about all of the organ systems that make our lives possible, even occasionally pleasant.발음듣기
대기중
(bouncy music) Pretty much every single animal, except for some really simple ones, have nervous systems, which is great because it's what lets things do things, like have behaviors.발음듣기
대기중
The whole set-up here - your brain, your nerves, your spinal cord - everything is made up of specialized cells that you don't find anywhere else in the body. Most of those are neurons. You've seen them before.발음듣기
대기중
Neurons bundle together to form nerves, pathways that transmit electrochemical signals from one part of your body to another.발음듣기
대기중
So, when you bit into a piece of pizza - I love it when there's pizza in the videos - the receptor neurons in my taste buds recognize I'm eating something salty, and fatty and awesome, and they carry that information along a nerve pathway to my brain.발음듣기
대기중
Then, it can respond by sending back information through different nerve pathways that say, "You should eat more of that pizza."발음듣기
대기중
You wouldn't think that it's terribly complicated to know that pizza tastes good, and to tell someone to eat more pizza, but it turns out that our brains and our nervous systems are crazy complicated.발음듣기
대기중
Your nervous system, basically, has a big ol' bureaucracy of neurons and it's divided into two main departments - the central nervous system, and the peripheral nervous system. Central and peripheral.발음듣기
대기중
The central nervous system, basically your brain and your spinal cord, is responsible for analyzing and interpreting all of those data that your peripheral nervous system - all of the nerves outside of your brain and spine - collects and sends its way.발음듣기
대기중
Once the central nervous system makes a decision about data, it sends a signal back through to the peripheral nervous system, saying, "Do this thing," which the peripheral nervous system then does.발음듣기
대기중
Afferent and efferent are biological terms, and they're horribly confusing, and I apologize on behalf of the entire institution of biology for them.발음듣기
대기중
Afferent systems carry things to a central point, and efferent systems carry things away from a central point.발음듣기
대기중
In the peripheral nervous system, afferent neurons are called sensory neurons, and they're activated by external stimuli, like the complex and glorious flavor of pizza, and then they convert those data into a signal for the central nervous system to process.발음듣기
대기중
The central nervous system has afferent neurons, too, and there, they bring information into special parts of the brain, like the part of the brain that goes, "Hmmm, salty." that goes, "Mmmm, salt."발음듣기
대기중
In the peripheral nervous system, they're called motor neurons, because many of them carry information from the brain and spinal cord to muscles to make us move, but they also go to pretty much every other organ in your body, thus making them work and do stuff to keep you alive.발음듣기
대기중
In the central system, efferent neurons carry information from special parts of the brain to other parts of the brain or spinal cord.발음듣기
대기중
Of course, if it ended there, it would be way too simple, and no good bureaucracy has just two departments.발음듣기
대기중
So, the peripheral nervous system is actually made up of two different systems, with two very different jobs, the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system.발음듣기
대기중
The somatic system controls all the stuff you think about doing, like all the information coming through your senses, and the movement of your body that it makes when you want it to make movements. But here's something interesting.발음듣기
대기중
Since we're totally in love with our brains as sort of the center of all being of ourselves, we think that all the information about everything going on in our bodies goes to our brain for some kind of decision.발음듣기
대기중
Not so! Sometimes, like when we touch a hot stove, the afferent neurons carry the signal, "Hot!" to the central nervous system, but that information doesn't even ever get to the brain.발음듣기
대기중
It sends a message directly back to the muscle, saying, "Get your hand off the friggin' stove!"발음듣기
대기중
(bleeping noise) Young man: This bit of fancy nerve work lets the spinal cord make decisions, rather than the brain, and it's called the reflex loop.발음듣기
대기중
So, the other branch of the peripheral nervous system, the autonomic system, carries signals from the central nervous system that drive all of the things that your body does without thinking about them - your heart beat, your digesion, breathing, saliva production, all of your organ functions.발음듣기
대기중
The autonomic nervous system has two divisions of its own, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.발음듣기
대기중
They're completely opposite and, frankly, they're always vying for control of the body in some kind of nervous system cage match.발음듣기
대기중
You probably heard this talked about as the fight-or-flight response - in other words, stress. But, stress isn't all bad.발음듣기
대기중
The sympathetic system prepared our body for action by increasing the heart rate, and the blood pressure, enhancing our sense of smell, dilating the pupils, activating our adrenal cortex to make adrenaline, shutting down blood supply to our digestive and reproductive systems so that there'll be more blood available for our lungs and muscles when we have to, like, run!발음듣기
대기중
And even though you're not in a constant state of panic - at least I hope not - I kind of am - that system's running all the time every day.발음듣기
대기중
But, right next to it is the parasympathetic division, working hard to make sure we take it nice and easy.발음듣기
대기중
It dials down the heart rate, and the blood pressure, constricts our lungs, makes our nose run, increases blood flow to our reproductive junk, our mouths produce saliva, encourages us to poop and pee.발음듣기
대기중
That's basically what we have to thank for taking a nap sitting in front of the TV, going to the bathroom, and getting it on.발음듣기
대기중
So, consider yourself lucky you got both the stress response and the chill-the-heck-out response working side-by-side, because together, they create a balance, or a homeostasis.발음듣기
대기중
The neurons that make up our nervous systems make it possible for our bodies to have their very own little electric systems.발음듣기
대기중
Neurons also have a single axon, the trunk of the tree, which is branched at the end and sends signals to other neurons.발음듣기
대기중
The axon is also covered in a fatty material called myelin, which acts as insulation. The myelin sheath isn't continuous.발음듣기
대기중
There are these little bits of exposed neuron along the axon, which have the sweetest names in this whole episode.발음듣기
대기중
They're called the nodes of Ranvier, which seems like an excellent working title for the eighth Harry Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Nodes of Ranvier."발음듣기
대기중
Anyway, these nodes allow signals to hop from node to node, which lets the signal travel down a nerve faster.발음듣기
대기중
It's called saltatory condution - conduction because it's electrical conduction, and saltatory because saltatory means leaping.발음듣기
대기중
Finally, the place where an axon's branches come in contact with the next cell dendrite is called a synapse.발음듣기
대기중
Now, think back to, or just go watch the episode that we did on cell membranes, where we talked about how materials travel down concetration gradients.발음듣기
대기중
Well, in much the same way, all of the neurons in your body have a membrane potential, a difference in voltage or electrical charge between the inside and the outside of the membrane.발음듣기
대기중
You might also remember that this build-up of voltage is handled in part by a sexy little protein called the sodium-potassium pump.발음듣기
대기중
Basically, the pump creates a voltage differential, like charging a battery, by moving three positively-charged sodium ions out for every two potassium ions it lets in, creating a net negative charge inside the cell relative to the outside.발음듣기
대기중
When a neuron is inactive, this is called its resting potential, and its voltage is at about negative 70 millivolts.발음듣기
대기중
These are proteins that straddle the membranes, but they're a lot simpler and don't need ATP to power them.발음듣기
대기중
Each cell can have more than 300 different kinds of ion channels, each tailored to accept a specific ion.발음듣기
대기중
Now, don't zone out here because all of this stuff is going to come into play when a neuron becomes active.발음듣기
대기중
This happens when an input or stimulus creates a change in the neuron that eventually reaches the axon, creating what's called an action potential, a brief event where the electrical potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls.발음듣기
대기중
When an action potential begins - like when a molecule of sugar touches one of my sweet taste buds - some ion channels open and let those positive sodium ions rush in, so that the inside starts to become less negative.발음듣기
대기중
With enough stimulus, the internal [unintelligible] of the neuron reaches a certain threshhold, which triggers more sodium channels to respond, and open the floodgates to let even more ions in.발음듣기
대기중
That's happening on one tiny little area of the neuron, but this change in voltage creeps over to the next bunch of soium channels, which are also sensitive to voltage, and so they open.발음듣기
대기중
But remember, the myelin sheath insulates most of the neurons, and just leaves those little nodes exposed.발음듣기
대기중
Instead of being a steady wave, the wave jumps from node to node, speeding up the travel time of action potential down a neuron.발음듣기
대기중
When a wave reaches the end of the neuron, it triggers a release of neurotransmitters from the neuron through exocytosis.발음듣기
대기중
Those neurotransmitters, then, flow across the synapse to the next neuron, where they trigger another action potential over there.발음듣기
대기중
By this time, so many sodium ions have gotten inside the first neuron that the difference between the outside and the inside is actually reversed.발음듣기
대기중
The positive potassium ions rush down both the concentration and the electro-chemical gradients, to get the heck out of the cell.발음듣기
대기중
That brings the charge inside the cell back down to negative on the inside, and positive on the outside.발음듣기
대기중
Notice, though, that now the sodium is on the inside of the cell, and the potassium is on the outside, and in the opposite places of where they started.발음듣기
대기중
The sodium-potassium pumps get back to work, burn up some ATP to pump the sodium back out and the potassium back in.발음듣기
대기중
That, my friends, is how action potential allows neurons to communicate signals down a whole chain of neurons, from the outer reaches of the peripheral nervous system, all the way up the spinal cord, into the brain, and then back out again.발음듣기
대기중
Chemicals from this beautiful pizza dissolve in saliva and then stimulate the dendrites on the afferent neuron.발음듣기
대기중
This generates a bunch of action-potentials that travel from the afferent neurons in my tongue, all the way to my brain, which is like, "My goodness!발음듣기
대기중
The brain then sends messages through the efferent nerve pathways to do all sorts of things.발음듣기
대기중
One, chew, which involves constricting the muscles in my jaw over and over again; two, lower my head down to catch another bite, which involves moving all kinds of neck muscles; three, swallowing, which involves constricting the muscles in my throat and esophagus; four, opening my mouth again to receive another bite.발음듣기
대기중
That signal is also going to my jaw, and that's not even to mention what's going to go on with the digestion of this bad boy, driven by the autonomic nervous system.발음듣기
대기중
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