Organization
This part of the nervous system makes decisions
What is the central nervous system?
This word describes where two neurons meet
This disease causes forgetfulness and poor decision making.
What is Alzheimers?
What is the frontal lobe?
These cells allow the eye to recognize color
What is a cone cell?
This part of the nervous system reacts to outside threats
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This tree-shaped structure allows a nerve to receive transmissions from other nerves.
What is a dendrite?
What is fewer neurons, higher connections?
This lobe of the brain understands 3D
What is the occipital lobe?
These cells allow the eye to see in near-darkness.
What is a rod cell?
Parasympathetic nervous system
This long stick-shaped device allows nerves to send information to other nerves.
What is an axon?
Drinking this liquid before bed improves the amount of trash that can be removed from the brain
Water
This lobe of the brain understands language (and presumably, time).
What is the temporal lobe?
These cells detect vibrations
What is a Meissner corpuscle?
This division of the nervous system delivers the brain's commands, whether conscious or unconscious
Peripheral nervous system
Nearby cells discover that a nerve has fired when this chemical arrives.
What is acetylcholine?
Nerve cells are unable to perform anaphase and cannot make new nerves in this part of the body
This division of the nervous system doesn't use the four lobes of the brain?
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This hairy, tiny organ is critical to our sense of hearing
Blink-and-you'll-miss-it: this rarely discussed division of the nervous system is the part of the somatic nervous system used to fire skeletal muscles
Hint: originally seen in unit 1, this system leaves the control center heading for the effectors
What is the efferent nervous system?
In order to generate electricity, neurons must have this ion, commonly found in French fries.
This division of the nervous system can actually replace its neurons
Often thought to be a taste, this flavor actually activates a pain receptor in the tongue.
What is spicy?