The Brain
This hard structure protects your brain from injury.
What is the skull?
What is the sympathetic nervous system commonly known as?
What is the fight or flight response?
What is another term for the Autonomic Nervous System?
What is The Involuntary Nervous system?
This nickname describes what the parasympathetic nervous system does for your body when you are calm
What is "rest and digest"?
What cells receive and transmit chemical or electrical signals?
What are neurons?
This organ controls your thoughts, memory, and body movements.
What is the brain
Which nervous system is the sympathetic nervous system a part of?
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Your spine is made of a stack bones called what?
What is Vertebra?
When your parasympathetic system is active, it does this to your heart rate
What is slow it down?
What is electrical insulation?
This part of the nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system
What are motor neurons?
What is the complex bunch of nerves that run from the brain and through the center of your spine?
What is the Spinal Cord?
This body process, which breaks down food and absorbs nutrients, speeds up when the parasympathetic system takes over
What is digestion?
The gap between Schwann cells are called ________
What is node of Ranvier?
These long body parts carry messages between your brain and the rest of your body.
What are nerves
What part of the neuron speeds up signal transmission?
What is the myelin sheath?
The nerves that branch out from the spinal cord are called what?
What are the Peripheral Nerves?
The parasympathetic system mainly works when you feel this way, the opposite of stressed or in danger
What is calm and safe (or relaxed)?
What are two (2) types of glial cells?
What are Microglial, Ependymal, Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes or Schwann Cells?
This organ is part of the central nervous system and carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
What is the spinal cord?
This increases to give your body quick energy in emergencies
What is a blood sugar increase?
What is the primary nerve that controls the motor functions of the diaphragm?
What is the Phrenic Nerve?
Together with the sympathetic system, the parasympathetic system is part of this larger nervous system that runs automatic body functions
What is autonomic nervous system?
Which neuron is considered the starting point in neurotransmission?
What is the presynaptic neuron?