Summary:

  • The nervous system has two main divisions: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.
  • The central nervous includes the brain and spinal cord.
  • The brain is the most complex organ of the human body.
  • It controls reasoning, imagination, memory, and language.
  • The spinal cord is a long, thin bundle of nervous tissue that passes messages from the body to the brain.
  • Learn about the motor control processes in the human brain, and how cutting-edge research is trying to implement it in robots below.
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