PNS
This part of the nervous system deals with nerves in the periphery.
What is peripheral nervous system?
The number of pairs of cranial nerves.
The organ system the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System belong to.
What is the Nervous System?
The lobe of the brain in the front that is involved in planning and personality.
What is frontal lobe?
This area of the brain is "hypo" or under the thalamus.
What is hypothalamus?
These receptors are sensitive to pain-causing stimuli.
What are nociceptors?
The cranial nerve that is used in vision (CN II).
What is optic?
During axon regeneration, these cells clean up the area after injury.
What are macrophages?
Area of the brain that is usually only present in the left hemisphere and directs the muscles of the tongue to help you speak.
What is the Broca's area?
Produces melatonin to help you sleep.
What is the pineal gland?
The connective tissue covering a fascicle in a nerve.
What is perineurium?
What is XI?
A reflex is a rapid, predictable, _____________response to a stimulus.
What is motor?
Region of the brain that controls learned, repetitious, or patterned motor skills. It is involved in the planning of movements.
What is the premotor cortex?
The brain waves produced in a mentally alert person.
What are beta waves?
This aspect of sensory perception identifies that a substance has a specific texture/shape.
What is feature abstraction?
This term, for jittery eyes, may be observed when testing the Trochlear nerve.
What is nystagmus?
What are astrocytes?
The number of cranial nerve nuclei associated with the brain stem.
What is 10.
The peptides that form in the brain causing Alzheimer's dieases.
What are beta-amyloid peptides?
The spinal segments that innervate the heart and the arm. leading to referred pain in a heart attack.
What are T1 - T5?
This cranial nerve (name and roman numeral) is tested by noting deviations from the midline of the patient's tongue.
What is hypoglossal (XII).
Interoceptors are found in blood vessels and ________________.
What is internal viscera?
The area of the brain that allows us to recognize faces.
What is the visual association area?
Cerebrovascular accidents can cause paralysis on one side, known as___________.
What is hemiplegia?