The nervous system

1. What is the nervous system and what are each of it’s components (e.g., central nervous system, peripheral, etc.)?
2. How does the sympathetic nervous system prepare you for action? How does the parasympathetic calm you down?
3. What is the purpose of fight or flight? Or, what is it’s purpose?
4. What are the forebrain, hindbrain and midbrain and what are their functions?

5.What are the temporal, occipital, frontal and parietal lobes and what are their functions?

6. What is the function of the pituitary gland and why is the called the master gland?
7. What is the function of the limbic system and name the structures that comprise it and their functions?

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