Foundational Neuroscience

NURS 6630 Week 1 Assignment: Short Answer Assessment (Solved)-As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, before you can recommend potential pharmacotherapeutics to address a patient’s condition or disorder, you must understand the basic function and structure of the neuron and central nervous system. For this Assignment, you will review and apply your understanding of neuroanatomy by addressing a set of short answer prompts. To Prepare: Review the Learning Resources for this week in preparation to c...

Introduction to Neuroanatomy 1.In 4 or 5 sentences, describe the anatomy of the basic unit of the nervous system, the neuron. Include each part of the neuron and a general overview of electrical impulse conduction, the pathway it travels, and the net result at the termination of the impulse. Neurons are electrically excitable cells that send nerve impulses everywhere in the nervous system (Weis, 2019). The neuron's anatomic structure comprises a cell soma or body housing a nucleus and DNA...