2015-03-30

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It is now time to meet the system that helps your brain stay in touch with the outside world. We follow up last week's tour of the central nervous system with a look at your peripheral nervous system, its afferent and efferent divisions, how it processes information, the reflex arc, and what your brain has to say about pain.

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Chapters:

Introduction: Peripheral Nervous System 00:00

Sensory Nerve Receptors: Thermoreceptors, Photoreceptors, Chemoreceptors, Mechanoreceptors, and Nociceptors 0:56

What is Pain? 1:54

How Pain is Processed 2:51

Pain Threshold vs Pain Tolerance 3:50

How the Brain Processes Pain 4:25

Afferent and Efferent Divisions 5:42

Five Steps of the Reflex Arc 6:38

What the Brain Says About Pain 8:09

Review 9:09

Credits 9:39

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