Parts of the nervous system
The part of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Neurotransmitter that causes the feeling of sleepiness. (low amounts = aggression)
What is serotonin?
The nerve with the largest diameter in the human body runs from the lower end of the spinal cord down the back of the thigh.
What is the sciatic nerve?
Part of the brain that controls vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
Nerve cells responsible for making an action or movement happen.
what is a motor neuron?
The part of the nervous system that controls voluntary body functions.
What is the Somatic nervous system?
Neurotransmitter that causes the feel good affect.
Regulates attention, cognition, movement, pleasure, and hormonal processes.
(low amounts = parkinsons)
What is dopamine?
Nerves pathway going down the spinal cord.
What are descending nerves?
Part of the brain that controls your logic, decision making, concentration, and personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
Nerve cells that serve as that connection between Peripheral Nerves to the Central Nervous System.
What are interneurons?
The part of the nervous system that controls involuntary body functions.
what is the autonomic nervous system
Neurotransmitter reduces pain, fight or flight.
What are endorphins?
A nerve pathway that goes upward from the spinal cord to the brain carrying sensory information.
What are the ascending nerves?
Part of the brain that controls touch, pressure, temperature, pain.
Nerve cells that transmit sensory information (sight, smell, sound, etc.)
What is a sensory nerve?
The part of your body that controls everything you do
What is the nervous system?
Neuro transmitter creates the feel good sensation.
(low amounts = depression)
What is norepinephrine?
Major nerves that leave the brain without passing through the spinal cord.
What are the cranial nerves?
What is the temporal lobe?
Neuron found in eyes, nose, and ears.
What is a bipolar neuron?
The part of the nervous system that connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
Neurotransmitter that causes skeletal muscle contractions.
What is Acetylcholine?
A network of nerves found in between the thoracic region of the spine. (T1- T11)
What are the intercostal nerves?
Part of the brain that coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, resulting in smooth, balanced muscular activity.
What is the cerebellum?
A neuron that accepts sensory messages
What is a unipolar neuron?