Introduction to the Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System

Terminology; Basic cellular elements and development of the central nervous system; Membranes and spaces: blood and cerebrospinal fluid; Generation, conduction and transmission of the nervous impulse; Receptors and effectors; The spinal cord; The lower brain stem and cranial nerve nuclei; The diencephalon; The telencephalon; Specific sensory systems; The arousal system: pain; Thalamic projection to telencephalon: association; Skeletal motor systems; The cerebellum; The rhinencephalon (limbic lobe) and hypothalamus; The blood supply of the central nervous system.