Nervous
Pain in the nerve(s)
What is neuralgia?
The 3 main structure of the full nervous sytem
What are the Brain, Spinal cord, and Nerves?
The central nervous system consists of these 2 main parts.
What are brain and spinal cord?
The Somatic division of the nervous system controls this.
What is voluntary movement of the body?
The part of the brain that is the sensory "traffic director".
What is the thalamus?
The body part described by the CF cephal/o.
What is the head?
paralysis of one side of the body
What is hemiplegia?
PNS stands for this.
What is peripheral nervous system?
This is what CNS stands for.
What is Central Nervous System?
The division of your peripheral nervous system that is made up of the nerves that control involuntary body responses and functions.
What is the autonomic nervous sysytem?
Name the tiiiiiiny empty space between dendrites of one neuron and axon terminals of the connecting neuron
Synapse (gap)
The outer layer of the cerebrum
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
The CF spin/o is for this body part.
What is the spine?
Progressive disease that causes problems with balance and walking, along with many other symptoms.
What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
The two subdivisions of the Autonomic Nervous System--and the function of each.
What are : Sympathetic "Fight or Flight" Parasympathetic Division- "rest and digest" ?
A chronic brain disorder is characterized by recurrent seizure activity.
What is epilepsy?
This structure functions like a highway and transmits nerve impulses from the body to the brain and from the brain to the body.
What is the spinal cord?
medical term for lack of speech
aphasia
There are approximately this many neurons in the human brain.
What is 86 billion?
The CF neur/o means this body part...
What is nerve?
The name for paralysis of the lower body and both legs
What is paraplegia?
The part of the brain that acts as a passageway between brain and spinal cord
What is the midbrain or brain stem?
The axon terminal holds these inside small vesicles
What are neurotransmitters?
The abbreviation PD stands for this...
What is Parkinson's Disease?
The abbreviation PET stands for this.
What is Positron Emission Tomography?
General term for disease of the brain.
What is encephalopathy?
The CF crani/o means this body part
What is the skull?
A neurological condition that causes involuntary movements and vocalization.
What is Tourette syndrome?
An action potential travels along this structure until it reaches the axon terminal.
What is the Axon?
The part of the brain, situated beneath the thalamus, monitors and controls autonomic nervous system functions
What is the hypothalamus?
The gaps between the myelin sheaths on the axon
What are nodes of ranvier?
Lack of blow flow and oxygen (ischemia) to part of the brain; warning sign of a stroke
What is transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
subjective sensation that often occurs before a migraine or seizure
What is aura?
The CF alges/o means this....
What is sense of pain?
A recording of the electrical activity of the brain created using electrodes placed on the scalp.
What is electroencephalogram (EEG)?