Nervous System - Skin! The nervous system interacts with our skin because skin holds our receptor cells. These cells receive stimuli from the environment and inform our brain what is going on. If we didn't have our skin these cells would have no protection.If we didn't have skin, microorganisms could invade our nervous system (as well as other systems) and shut them down. The part of the skin that holds the receptor cells is called the dermis. Every time you feel something you are using the receptor cells in your dermis. Skin also keeps the receptor cells in place. This is important because if we didn't have skin and nothing was holding our receptor cells in place, the receptor cells would be moving around randomly. This means that we could be feeling everything in one finger and nothing in another finger. This would be extremely dangerous, because say if we didn't feel anything in our toes we could be stepping on glass or fire embers and seriously damage or infect that area.
The nervous system interacts with our skin because skin holds our receptor cells. These cells receive stimuli from the environment and inform our brain what is going on. If we didn't have our skin these cells would have no protection.If we didn't have skin, microorganisms could invade our nervous system (as well as other systems) and shut them down. The part of the skin that holds the receptor cells is called the dermis. Every time you feel something you are using the receptor cells in your dermis. Skin also keeps the receptor cells in place. This is important because if we didn't have skin and nothing was holding our receptor cells in place, the receptor cells would be moving around randomly. This means that we could be feeling everything in one finger and nothing in another finger. This would be extremely dangerous, because say if we didn't feel anything in our toes we could be stepping on glass or fire embers and seriously damage or infect that area.
By Carys OKL