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Rules:

• Your post must be highly organized, thorough and accurate.
• Advance the discussion or extend discussions already taking place.
• Responses must add new information not previously discussed. Pose new possibilities or opinions not previously voiced. Consider new factual information tied with critical thinking. Interesting and current research on the topic.
• Do not simply summarize another student’s post and agree/disagree. Consider starting out posts with, “A research article I found said, Did you know, 3 things I found interesting were…”

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Even though all aspects of the Nervous System are essential, it is especially important to have the basic knowledge and understanding of the most simple and concrete process of the cell. Initially, the cells need to be eager when receiving any peripheral stimuli so that it can quickly gather and distribute the stimulus to other surrounding cells through conductivity and secretion (Saladin, 2020). Once the stimulus mobilizes through the cells and system, it then quickly moves to the next stage of storing, processing, and producing an outcome.

Once the (Sensory) stimuli is rapidly received and transported from the Peripheral Nervous System (also known as the Afferent neuron), it is then transferred to the inside of the body through the Central Nervous System where it is processed through the Interneurons, and then a physical (Motor) response (also known as the Efferent neuron) is transmitted back out to the Peripheral Nervous System to move any part of the body (Saladin, 2020). From start to finish, this speedy mechanism is so efficient that it can produce a response within “70-120 meters per second, (156-270 miles per hour)” along a myelinated neuron (Welsh & Daley, 2019).

Critical Thinking:

This neuron process is what I would call the action and reaction phase. I have found that word association was the most efficient way to remember the flow of stimuli through the system. So when the stimulus Arrives (Afferent) from the PNS to the CNS, the stimulus is accurately processed to determine how the body is to respond, and then the processed stimuli Exits (Efferent) to the appropriate designation to perform the suitable reaction (Saladin, 2020).

A personal example that I have unfortunately experienced many times and I am sure that plenty of other women have also experienced is when you are styling or fixing your hair with a hot tool and somehow accidentally get a bit too close or even touch it, and your instantaneous response is to move away quickly. This response is done without any thought or hesitation. Without this simple yet valuable mechanism, we could potentially do more harm to ourselves. Another great example of a stimulus that is not caused by pain but could also be potentially harmful if we had a faulty stimuli response system, is sweating from having an internal body temperature above normal. This can either be brought on from working out, laying in the sun, doing yard work, etc.