Skip to main content

Glial and Neuronal Cellular Compostion, Biology, and Physiology

  • Chapter
Neuroimmune Pharmacology
  • 2374 Accesses

The brain has the unique ability to affect so many things from movement to emotion to cognitive abilities. It can, together with life events, transform a person into an artist, a priest, a scientist, or a teacher. To achieve any goal, all of our body systems need to collaborate with one other. It is the brain that controls and co-ordinates the activity of all in response to environmental cues and demands with the assistance of all of the nervous system. Each and every demand is detected by our senses and messages are judged by merit, which in turn, directs particular responses. Taken together, our nervous system is concerned about sensory input and motor output. Sensory nerves collect information about the body’s internal and external environment and convey it to the central nervous system (CNS). Motor nerves carry instructions on what to do. Let me describe it with an example. When we feel hungry, our internal environment generates a sensory input that provides us the awareness of hunger. Then sensory input from the external environment provides us the information on how to obtain food. Consequently, motor output is generated in the external environment to get and swallow food. Then motor activity in the internal environment assists us with the food intake to the extent until we get the nod from our sensory input from the internal environment that enough food has been consumed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 159.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Pahan, K. (2008). Glial and Neuronal Cellular Compostion, Biology, and Physiology. In: Gendelman, H.E., Ikezu, T. (eds) Neuroimmune Pharmacology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72573-4_7

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics