The nervous system
A bundle of neurons.
What is a nerve?
Thinking happens here.
What is the cerebrum?
This is much smaller in animals.
What is the cerebrum?
Type 1 diabetes because this organ cannot produce what hormone?
What is insulin?
The adrenal glands are located here.
What are the top of kidneys?
Neuron cell bodies have many.
What are dendrites?
It regulates homeostasis and equilibrium.
What is the hypothalamus?
It allows activity beyond pain.
What are opioid peptides?
Neurons that carry impulses away from the brain.
What are motor neurons?
A goiter can form when the thyroid does not have enough of this chemical.
What is iodine?
A gap between dendrites
What is a synapse?
What is GABA?
Produces melatonin and is involved with our biological clock.
What is the pineal gland?
Neurons that carry impulses toward the brain.
What are sensory neursons?
A goiter can form on this gland when there isn't enough iodine produced.
What is the thyroid?
Neurons impulses travel in one direction, they are either.
What is sensory or motor impulses?
Controls muscle movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
A detectable change, acting upon a sensory receptor, which causes an attached sensory neuron to send a signal to the brain.
What is a stimulus?
What is a reflex?
The information at synapses travels through this.
What are chemicals?
What is the hormonal system?
Provide unconscious control of the internal body, such as breathing, heart rate, temp. regulation...etc.
What is the brain stem?
Axons that are going to the same place in the the body are bundled together into.
What are nerves?
Illegal drugs imitate these bringing relief to pain.
What are neurotransmitters?