The Peripheral Nervous System: Nerves and Sensory Organs

We've learned about one main division of the nervous system, the central nervous system, so let's learn about the other. That's the peripheral nervous system. This is the part that receives information from your surroundings and brings it to the brain, and when the brain decides what to do, it sends signals around your body to tell it what to do. This is just as complicated as it sounds, so let's check out all the sensory organs that are involved in making this happens, as well as the nerves that transmit the information!