Log The Nervous System And The Brain Chapter 3 Summary

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Chapter Three, Log Three Bailey McKenna 9/12/13 1. The first question I have after reading through the information provided in chapter three is regarding the central nervous system, or the CNS. I read on page 61, that the CNS is made up of only the brain and the spinal cord yet more than 99 percent of all nerve cells in the body are located in the CNS. My question is because the rest of the body’s 1 percent of nerves is in everything other than the brain and spinal cord, does this mean that critical damage to other body parts with fewer nerves will have less than a dismal effect on the body? Another question I have that was generated after viewing the visual information in the Split-Brain on page 3T-6. The question is based on the two hemispheres of the brain, specifically, most people are considered either right sided or left sided people, but are there people who are both extremely right sided as well as left, so they would be very artistic as well as very literal thinkers? 2. After reading the chapter through thoroughly as well as reviewing the key terms at the back of the chapter I concluded a…show more content…
To me, chapter three seemed to be a very informative chapter that thoroughly broke down its information in manners that may have seemed confusing to its readers. Thankfully, not too long into the chapter a section named “Touring the Nervous System and the Brain” pops up after page 64 and ends where page 65 begins. This section of the chapter is perfect for people who learn off of visuals more than they do by reading. Each page in the section contains multiple slides that when layered on top of each other they create a very in depth visual depicting different parts of the human body and the important pieces of each body part or bodily function. This section was very helpful to me personally as it explained information that was also in the text of the chapter but it taught me through their image which is a different and more helpful way to learn for

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