The Nervous System - CrashCourse Biology #26
Hank begins a series of videos on organ systems with a look at the nervous system and all of the things that it is responsible for in the body. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD!...
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I'm going to be totally honest with you: I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about my bodily functions. For the most part. Maybe sometimes. But in the next few episodes, I'm going to be talking about all of the organ systems that make our lives possible, even occasionally pleasant! And to start it all off, I'm going straight to mission control: the Nervous System! Pretty much every animal, except for some really simple ones, have nervous systems, which is great, because it's what lets things do things like: have behaviors. It makes you the sentient, living thing that you are. The whole set-up here: your brain, your nerves, your spinal cord, everything is made up of specialized cells that you don't find anywhere else in...
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I'm going to be totally honest with you: I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about my bodily functions. For the most part. Maybe sometimes. But in the next few episodes, I'm going to be talking about all of the organ systems that make our lives possible, even occasionally pleasant! And to start it all off, I'm going straight to mission control: the Nervous System! Pretty much every animal, except for some really simple ones, have nervous systems, which is great, because it's what lets things do things like: have behaviors. It makes you the sentient, living thing that you are. The whole set-up here: your brain, your nerves, your spinal cord, everything is made up of specialized cells that you don't find anywhere else in...
