Parts of the Brain
What part of the brain in the occipital lobe is responsible for the ability to see?
Visual Cortex
What part of the brain is the point where the spinal cord connects with the brain and controls vital body functions like breathing, heartbeat, and digestion?
brain stem
All of the nerves in our body combine to form what part of the nervous system?
Peripheral Nervous System
What are the specialized cells called that are found throughout your nervous system to carry signals?
neurons
A diagnostic scan such as an MRI or CT scan is used to look for what condition of the nervous system?
Tumors or lesions
What part of the brain is responsible for balance, coordination, and movement?
Cerebellum
What part of the brain is responsible for personality, emotions, and decision making?
Frontal Lobe
The central nervous system consists of what two organs?
Brain and Spinal Cord
What part of a neuron is responsible for receiving the signal
dendrite
Analyzing Cerebrospinal fluid means inserting a needle into what part of the nervous system?
Spinal Cord
What part of the brain is responsible for touch, language, and memories?
Parietal Lobe
What part of the brain is responsible for hearing and language?
Temporal Lobe
What type of neurons are responsible for taste, touch, smell, sight and sound (the senses)
Sensory Neurons
What part of the neuron is responsible for coating the outside of the axon to help send the signal more quickly?
Myelin
What type of test measures the electrical activity in muscles?
EMG
What part of the brain houses the visual cortex and helps with short-term memory?
What part of the brain is responsible for all conscious thought and sensory processing?
Cerebrum
What type of neurons are responsible for the movement of the body?
motor neurons
What part of the neuron connects to the next neuron in line to send the signal?
Synapse
nerve damage
What part of the brain controls body temperature, appetite, sleep patterns, and other automatic processes?
Hypothalamus
What is the band of fibers called that connects the two halves of the brain?
Corpus Collosum
What part of the nervous system is responsible for processing the input from the surroundings and triggering a response?
Central Nervous System
Use the following terms: axon, dendrite, cell body, synapse
Dendrite->cell body->axon->synapse
If a patient complains of muscle weakness and slow reflexes but has normal brain scans and Cerebral Spinal Fluid what two tests could you run to examine their peripheral nerves?
Nerve conduction Velocity Test and EMG