Nervous System
Cerebral hemispheres, brainstem, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.
What are the major components of the nervous system?
Responsible for transmitting sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex.
What is the thalamus?
These glial cells are primarily responsible for immune defense in the central nervous system.
What are microglia?
The temporal lobe is important for functions such as auditory processing, memory, and language, and is located in this area of the brain.
What is the lower part of the brain?
The left hemisphere is responsible for this.
What is language?
Cerebral cortex, Cerebellum, Diencephalon, Brainstem, and Spinal cord.
What structures make up the central nervous system?
Forms and stores memories which is essential for communication.
What is the hippocampus?
The part of the neuron that receives signal from other neurons is known by this name.
What is the dendrite?
This lobe of the brain, located at the back, plays a crucial role in processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
The right hemisphere is responsible for these four things.
What is creativity, spatial, artistic, and music?
12 cranial nerves
31 spinal nerves
How many pairs of spinal nerves and cranial nerves does the peripheral nervous system have?
Parts of the brainstem.
What are the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata?
Glial cells that “anchor” neurons to blood supply.
What are astrocytes?
This lobe of the brain in primarily associated with creativity, artistic expression, and spatial awareness.
the right parietal lobe
This fiber communicates between the left and right hemisphere.
What are the commissural fibers?
A type of cell that is essential for nervous system communication and transmits electrical impulses by using its axon to send signals as well as dendrites to receive them.
What is a neuron?
This fissure divides the brain hemispheres left and right.
What is the longitudinal fissure?
Neurons versus glial cells.
What is glial cells are non-signaling and neurons are signaling.
Damage to this lobe on the right ride of the brain from a stroke might cause issues with spatial awareness and visual processing.
What is the right parietal lobe ?
This is where the left hemisphere section receives input from the body’s right side.
What is the primary somatosensory cortex?
Bipolar neuron that activates muscular or
glandular responses, usually long
myelinated axons.
What is a motor neuron?
Coordinates motor skills and is involved in non-verbal communication by regulating timing and force of speech.
What is the cerebellum?
Four types of glial cells.
astrocytes
Oligodendrites
Schwann cells
Microglia
A stroke affecting this lobe of the brain on the left side may lead to difficulties with speech and languages.
What is the left frontal lobe?
This part of the brain is responsible for language processing in most individuals.
the left hemisphere