How and why nervous and hormonal responses different

• Nervous response is fast because transmission is electrical and neurons are interconnected while hormonal response is slow because hormones have to be distributed in blood.
• Nervous response show high peak response because its effects are localized while hormonal response show low peak response because the hormones are diluted to reached the whole body
• Nervous response show brief response they trigger specific response at local receptors while hormonal response triggers unspecific response through changes in gene expression. Also hormones take long to be broken down.

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