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Oh, wow. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 63, the nervous system.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

In this episode, we're going to look at the different components of the nervous system,

including the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system.

We'll talk about the spinal column, the cerebral spinal fluid,

and there will be a particular focus on the brain,

so we'll look at the anatomy of the brain, the different regions of the brain, including

the forebrain and the hind brain, the brain stem. We'll talk about the different regions

of the cortex in their structure and functions. Recommended pre-listing for this episode is

episode 38 neurons and synapses.

Okay, so let's make a start.

The nervous system is the part of an animal's body that coordinates voluntary and involuntary motions,

activities, and transmit signals between different parts of the body

to essentially coordinate actions

and manage the different organs of the body.

The special type of cell that is sort of defined by the nervous system or defines nervous tissue

is called a neuron or a nerve cell that's also called the loaves. We'll see a bit later. That's a bit of a

misnomer. Most animal species have a two parts to the nervous system, a central nervous system

and a peripheral nervous system, abbreviated C&S and PNS, respectively. Basically, the central

nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord, and everything else is the peripheral

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