The body's speedy, electrochemical communication system, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems
What is Nervous System
100
The brain and spinal cord
What is Central Nervous System
100
Chemical messengers, mostly those manufactured by the endocrine glands, that are produced in one tissue and affect another.
What is Hormones
100
The building blocks (cells) of the nervous system
What is Neuron
100
A simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory stimulus (knee-jerk response)
What is Reflex
200
The study between the physical body and how it effects emotions
What is Biological Psychology
200
The division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body (mobilizes its energy in stressful situations)
What is sympathetic nervous system
200
Tissue located on top of the kidneys that releases adrenaline and cortisol during states of emotional arousal
What is Adrenal Gland
200
Chemical messengers that traverse the synaptic gap between neurons.
What is Neurotransmitters
200
The bushy,branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages
What is Dendrite
300
The body's "slow" chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream
What is Endocrine System
300
The division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body (conserves its energy)
What is parasympathetic nervous system
300
The endocrine system's most influential gland. Under the influence of the hypothalamus, the pituitary regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.
What is Pituitary Gland
300
CNS Neurons that come between sensory and Motor Neurons.
What is Interneurons
300
The extension of a neuron ending in branches terminal fibers.
What is Axon
400
The type of Nervous System that links the Central Nervous System with the body's sense receptors, muscles and glands.
What is Peripheral Nervous System
400
The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the bodys skeletal muscles (skeletal nervous system)
What is somatic nervous system
400
A gland in the neck that secretes hormones the promote growth and manage metabolic functions
What is Thyroid Gland
400
Neurons that carry outgoing info from the CNS
What is Motor Neurons
400
The gap between the axon tip to the next dendrite of the the receiving cell body.
What is Synapse
500
The sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
What is Peripheral Nervous System
500
The part of the the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs
What is autonomic nervous system
500
A small gland in the brain that produces hormones melatonin which regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
What is Pineal Gland
500
Neurons that carry incoming info from the sensory receptors to the CNS
What is Sensory Neurons
500
A layer of fatty tissue segment ally encasing the fibers of many neurons