TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Nervous System A1 - Parikh, Sagar S. A1 - Parikh, Shailesh S. A2 - Mitra, Raj PY - 2019 T2 - Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine AB - The nervous system is unique in its ability to accept and interpret various stimuli and develop a response to that stimuli, whether action based or emotional. In addition to seemingly voluntary outputs, it works to involuntarily maintain homeostasis throughout the body. The highest concentration of neurons, the basic unit of our nervous system, is within the brain and numbers in the tens of billions.1 When regarding the nervous system as a whole, the total number of neurons has been hypothesized to exceed 100 billion. Though knowledge of the architecture of our nervous system is quite vast, novel research is constantly pushing the boundaries of our understanding and providing new insights into this incredibly intricate system. Through the context of this chapter we will touch upon aspects of the central and peripheral nervous system, including its anatomy and physiology. In addition to this we will outline ways to interpret the health of a patient's nervous system through physical examination and diagnostic tools. This text is meant to serve as a primer of information to create a foundation. At times details may be purposefully foregone as they will be discussed in later chapters with detail. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162854587 ER -