NMT432

• Structural and functional support of neurons
• Provides oxygen and nutrients to neurons

Direct communication between sensory and motor neuron

interneuron facilitates sensory-motor communication.

• Neuron cell bodies
• Dendrites
• Axon terminals
• Synapses

myelinated axons connecting different parts of grey matter.

• Dura mater
• Arachnoid
• Pia mater

Choroid Plexuses (ependymal cells)

• choroid plexuses
• ventricles,
• cisterns
• thecal space

• a ring of arteries that supply the brain
• common source of strokes

restrict passage of all but certain material through the blood brain barrier.

at interface between blood and brain, endothelial cells and astrocytes are stiched together by tight junctions

• Alzheimers
• multi-infact dementia
• Parkinsons
• Alcohol/drug
• Misc endocrine disorders, b-12 deficiency

• Death of dopamine secreting neurons in this area is the cause of parkinsons
• located in midbrain.

• destinqushing feature in PD, Lewy bodies found in affected neurons.
• they damage mitocondria. and caus