The Peripheral Nervous System

The Peripheral Nervous System

It is now time to meet the system that helps your brain stay in touch with the outside world; 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. Learn more in the Anatomy & Physiology: The Nervous System pathway.

Topics

  • thermoreceptors
  • photoreceptors
  • chemoreceptors
  • mechanoreceptors
  • anociceptors
  • nervous system structure
  • Peripheral Nervous System
  • afferent division
  • efferent division
  • reflexes
  • reflex arc
  • brain
  • pain