# Reflexes --- **Reflexes** are protective actions that your body performs automatically when your [[peripheral nervous system]] recieves a stimuli that it interprets as dangerous. Other: [[enteric nervous system#Reflexes|long & short reflexes]] of the enteric nervous system. ## Stretch Reflexes **Stretch reflexes** are good examples of reflexes becaues they're pretty easy to understand. Our [[muscle tissue]] has sensors called **stretch receptor** sensors located in the in spindle or intra fussile mussle fibers. ![[stretch reflex.png]] ## Golgi Tendon Reflex **Golgi tendon reflex** if you're holding too much weight, you're muscles will just drop the weight without you thinking about it. This is to protect breaks at the tendon. The sensor is in the *tendons* not the spindles. ## Swallowing Reflex The **swallowing reflex** is how we swallow food during eating. The swallowing reflex is initiated at when the bolus enters the [[pharynx|oropharynx]], which send signals to the **swallowing center** in the [[medulla oblongata]]. ___