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Chorus: nervous about this system, no need to be gonna break it down, I gotcha G lots of terms you may not know now say this rhyme couple times, I’ll show ya how 2 Parts to the nervous system that’s my word 1 consists of the brain and spinal cord called Central Nervous System or CNS Peripheral Nervous System includes all the rest 7 parts of the brain there are 1st is cerebrum, it’s the largest part from the five senses, interprets information from up top controls all voluntary functions gotta shove all these facts into your brain don’t let it make you insane it’s the most important organ, don’t wanna hear you complain gonna feel this rhyme till I feel your pain Chorus next is cerebellum located below helps to coordinate those movements, ya know allows you to be a fly breakdancer memba that for a science quiz answer 3rd is hypothalamus, secretes hormones, aight maintains homeostasis, your environment inside next is medulla, controls your heart beat involuntary actions, it’s why you breathe while you sleep gotta shove all these facts into your brain don’t let it make you insane it’s the most important organ, don’t wanna hear you complain gonna feel this rhyme till I feel your pain Chorus then we got pons, latin for bridge connects parts of the brain ya dig midbrain is 6, reflex for eyes and ears helps eyes blink, and respond to what you hear last is thalamus, relays the info. between cerebrum and the spinal cord below that’s all there is to the CNS dawg a brain of 7 parts and 1 spinal cord gotta shove all these facts into your brain don’t let it make you insane it’s the most important organ, don’t wanna hear you complain gonna feel this rhyme till I feel your pain Chorus now let’s get into PNS Peripheral Nervous System is way to say it best break it down into somatic and autonomic voluntary for somatic, automatic is autonomic autonomic is broken down in two sympathetic and parasympathetic too sympathetic response is “fight or flight” parasympathetic brings it down right one more thing is the cerebral cortex it’s the gray matter, don’t mean to vex outer part of cerebrum, it makes it up inside you got white matter that’s wassup
