Talk:Human Physiology/The Nervous System

How to insert an image
In respone to a question from Brittine on inserting an image, I will tell you EXACTLY how to do it. For any sort of editing tricks, the easiest thing is to go to a chapter where you see something you like, click on "edit" and copy their code. Then paste that code into your chapter and modify it to suit your purposes. For the specific question of how to insert photos, you must first find a photo (or drawing) that is free of any copyrights. On the beginning page of our book I have a "Note to authors" section with a link to Wikimedia Commons. You should either find your images there or, if you have a different image you should first upload it to the Commons. In other words, all image files are stored at the Commons, not in the individual articles or books. You simply link to a file at the Commons from within your chapter.

Here is a concrete example of how to do this: I followed the link from the Note to Authors, then went to the Neurosciences section. I found a picture I liked of an Action Potential. Here is the link to that image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:422px-Action_potential_vert.png

Note that the end of the link is: Image:422px-Action_potential_vert.png

Next I went to a chapter that had an image (I went to Ch 18 on Development, since I know Brent and Anthony have figured out how to edit Wikibooks better than me). On a paragraph with an image I clicked "edit" and saw the following code:. I copied this and then went back to the Nervous System chapter. Under the heading Structure and Function of Neurons someone had written "Generation & propagation of an action potential." I turned that into a separate heading and decided it was a good place for the image I had found. So now I just paste the code I had copied and replaced one image name with the other so it looked like this:

==Generation & propagation of an action potential==



I then hit "Show preview" and saw that with the image at the left all the text afterwards was put to the side of it. Since I did not have anything written about action potentials I deleted the "|left" of the code and hit "Show preview" again.

That looked pretty good to me, so I wrote in the summary "added action potential image" (the summary is a nice way to let people know what changes were made), then I hit "Save page."

That was a long-winded way to answer your question, so I hope it made good sense. I did not tell you how to add images to the Commons area if you find a non-copyrighted image that you want to use from some other location. If you need to upload to the Commons, then let me know. Also, if you see an image in Wikipedia and you want to use it, then you should only need to look at the code, get the name of the image, and insert it into the code for linking to images.

Work hard and do great things! ~Kevin Provophys 07:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks This is so helpful. Cindy the helper (discuss • contribs) 13:27, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

are we covering the limbic system?
It was my understanding when we asked kevin about it that we were not going to have more than a basic over view of the limbic system. Am I incorect? --Clareceglanville 22:32, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Goals for this chapter.

 * 1 Create a key terms section
 * 2 provide pictrues for the synapsis and firing of a neuron
 * 3 bold all key terms within the chapter
 * 4 create a sub heading to give the somatic nervous system it's own section

Please feel free to add more--Clareceglanville 00:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Jody's Review
This chapter has a lot of great information in it. I was impressed with the flow and ease of the chapter in understandig the information. One suggestion I have is at the very beginning it lists overview of the entire nervous system and then lists (CNS, PNS, Efferent, Afferent, Somatic, Visceral, etc. ...) I thought it might be helpful to actually right out the "central nervous system" where "cns" is and periphreal nervous system w/ "pns" I just thought it might be easier for someone to understand that is not to familiar with the terms (someone who has not just taken anatomy)  Just a thought. Great Job. --Jtervortn 13:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

WhiteKnight...Oh, WhiteKnight
Wherefore art thou, Whiteknight!!?? We added a case study right after the sub-heading that talked about the Myelin Sheath. We were wondering if there was anything fun we could add to that case study, perhaps a border? Or just something that may make it stand out a bit from the rest of the chapter. Please let us know if you have any ideas. Thanks!!Pwoodson 19:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

RiRi's Review
Sorry guys I'm with Jamie on the whole busy thing! I too was busy with my own chapter to give in put,BUT here I am!...anyways!...I honestly think this was the hardest chapter to put together as far as anyone else's and you guys that have been working on it did a great job! I added some pictures towards the end of the chapter if you guys want to edit them I wont care by all means! Also since everyone is changing chapters this next week, who ever is going to take over this chapter i totally recomend the web site |"How stuff works.com".you guys can link the animation videos to this chapter. They show easy understandable short videos on how the nervous system works.It's really cool!. If you go to Integumentry system and look and the link i put in for breast tissue and look at the edit page it will show you how I put it in if you dont know. Anyways I can't waite to do the homework for this chapter!{RiRi82 02:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)}

Sodium-potassium pump
I found an image that may be useful for this chapter: but for some reason it is not showing up! Provophys 23:26, 8 March 2007 (UTC) I have used this one File:Scheme sodium-potassium pump-en.svg 167.30.56.22 (discuss) 04:13, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Neuron image
It would be nice to have an imange of a neuron and the structure of.!

Club drugs
Just reading through and found that the term, "club drugs," used in the drugs section seems to be just a generalisation, perhaps it would be better to remove this and just leave the specific examples? (unsigned)

On the subject of drugs, I think the page contains more than enough content on recreational drugs and needs an edit to return to physiology scope for this chapter. I disagree with this paragraph ''Some say that abuse begins when the user begins shirking responsibility in order to afford drugs or to have enough time to use them. Some say it begins when a person uses "excessive" amounts, while others draw the line at the point of legality, and others believe it amounts to chronic use despite degenerating mental and physical health in the user. Some think that any intoxicant consumption is an inappropriate activity.''

My suggestion for replacement - ''The nervous system is able to accomodate or adjust for various stimuli. The body develops tolerance to psycho-active substances and the drug user must repeat the dose in order to feel 'normal'. The combination of some individuals and substances develop tolerance to a stage where the user increases the dose to acheive the euphoric "high" effect and access to continued supply becomes a compulsive and sometimes problematic theme. The immediate physical effects of the drug may be insignificant compared with the psychosocial dislocation with comes alongside abuse, such as dishonest or risk-taking behaviour. The effects of drug abuse are sufficient to have become a universal public health and law enforcement concern'' Tradimus (discuss • contribs) 05:13, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Marijuana
I don't see this as a safety record I think a more accurate representation would be 'marijuana has a low lethality in overdose' Tradimus (discuss • contribs) 07:57, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Dependence
 * Anxiety and depression
 * Sleep problems
 * Lowered sex drive
 * Learning difficulties and poorer educational outcomes
 * Memory problems
 * Respiratory illnesses such as chronic cough and bronchitis
 * Increased risk of cancer of the lung, mouth, throat and tongue
 * Paranoia and other psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations with increased risk of developing schizophrenia