Central Nervous System

• it is the network of nerves that branches out from the CNS

• the brain and the spinal cord which are the main control center of the body

• it carries out higher mental processes such as thinking, decision making, and planning

• it processes sensory information that had to do with taste, temperature, and touch

• it is responsible for processing visual information from the eyes

• it is responsible for processing auditory information from the ears (hearing)

• language, logic, critical thinking, numbers, and reasoning

• music, reading emotion, colors, images, intuition, creativity

• it is the biggest/largest part of the brain - it is associated with higher brain function such as thought and action

• it to link the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland (hypophysis)

• it receives information from the sensory systems, the spinal cord, and other parts of the brain and then regulates motor movements

• it has many basic functions, including regulation of heart rate, breathing, sleeping, and eating

• it contains the cardiac, respiratory, vomiting and vasomotor centers and therefore deals with the autonomic (involuntary) functions of breathing, heart rate and blood pressure

• runs the entire length of your back • protected by vertebrate • connects the brain to the rest of the body • controls reflexes