General
Nerve cells that receive process and transmit information.
What is neuron?
Consists of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the CNS?
Being nervous before a presentation or speech is an example of
What is a fight or flight response? (sympathetic system)
A rapid electrical message occurring because of difference in electrical charge across the plasma membrane of a neuron which is the fundamental way information travels throughout the nervous system.
What is a Nerve Impulse?
This specialized unit has a greyish white color
What color is a neuron?
Connects the brain to the rest of the body enabling communication between the CNS and peripheral tissues
What is the Spinal Cord?
It is made up of all the nerves locates outside the brain and spinal cord.
What is the PNS?
Controls voluntary movements and transmits sensory information (skin, muscle) to the CNS
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
Touch, heat, visual and chemical triggers initiating action potential in a sensory neuron
Strobe lighting, lack of sleep, and alcohol.
What are Triggers for Epilepsy?
The junction between a neuron and another neuron, muscle, or gland cell, enabling communication.
What is a Synapse?
Independently handles automatic processes, such as reflexes, for quick reactions without direct brain involvement.
What is the Spinal Cord?
Branch of the PNS that regulates involuntary actions like heart rate, respiratory rate and digestion
What is the Autonomic Nervous System
The type of neuron that receives the nerve impulse, processes the information, and transfers the nerve impulse to motor neurons.
What is an Interneuron?
Theorized to cause Parkinsons Disease
What are pesticides?
A synapse between the end of a motor nerve and a muscle.
What is a Neuromuscular Junction
This component sends signals and nerve impulses travel along this component.
What is an axon?
Subdivisions of the autonomic system: (fight-or-flight responses) and (rest-and-digest)
What is the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic?
Released into the synaptic cleft binding to receptors on the effector cell triggering a response such as secretion of substance or muscle contraction.
What is a neurotransmitter?
Potential cause of Epilepsy due to this cerebral infection.
What is Meningitis?
The brain, spinal cord and the spine
What is not the CNS?
Nerves are made of these.
What is a Neurons?
Subdivision of the autonomic system:(rest-and-digest)
What is the Parasympathetic?
Part of the Neurogastrointestinal, network of neurons embedded in the walls of the Gi tract that can function independently of the CNS but communicates with it,
What is the Enteric Nervous System/Brain of the Gut?
Parkinsons Disease connects to this component which controls smooth and coordinated movement
What is the Basal Ganglia?