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The parasympathetic nervous system controls the same organs as the sympathetic nervous system, but relaxes the body instead.

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The sympathetic nervous system controls the "fight or flight" response that we feel when nervous or anxious.

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Automatic means that your body does it for you. That also means that you don't have control over it. The automatic nervous system includes the glands, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle.

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Somatic means voluntary, and that means you have control over it. This would be the skeletal muscles, the ones that you can move yourself.

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Efferent is the opposite of afferent, this time it is sending messages from the CNS, to the PNS. These can then be either somatic or autonomic.

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Afferent means, literally, "to go toward" and that is what it is doing. The nerves are giving messages to the central nervous system.

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The peripheral nervous system includes the nerves that move outwards from the nervous system into the other parts of the body and the limbs.

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The central nervous system includes the brain and the spinal cord. The brain is located in the skull and the spinal cord is located and protected by the spine.