Provide support and protection of neurons, smaller than neurons and more numerous
What is Glial Cells
Found at the end of the axon
What is Terminals
The point of contact between neuron-neuron, neuron-other cell
What is a Synapse
Sympthetic Nervous System
What is Fight or flight
Structures of the PNS and CNS
What is CNS-Brain and Spinal Cord
What is PNS-Nerves
The lobe does thought and Personality
part of the neuron that processes information
What is patterns of synaptic connections. Routes to get from one region to another
Neuronal Pathway
Part of the brain that does coordination and balance
What is Cerebellum
Part of the brain interprets vision
What is Occipital Lobe
the different functional classifications for neurons.
What is Sensory- Afferent. Take info into the CNS, cell bodies located in the posterior root ganglion. Motor- Efferent. Take info from the CNS Interneurons- Between sensory and motor. Located in the brain and spinal cord.
The lobe that does general sensation
What is Parietal Lobe
3 types of pain
Psychogenic, Somatic and Idiopathic
the number of Spinal Nerves
What is 31
Protects and electrically insulates fibers, and increases the speed of transmission of nerve impulses.
What is Myelin
Outer layer of Meninges
What is Dura Mater
3 types of Neurons
What are sensory neurons, interneurons and motor neurons
A Synaptic Cleft
What is a fluid filled space between the pre-synaptic and post-synaptic membranes.
Dopamine, Adrenaline, Serotonin, Melatonin, Acetocholine