Nervous system
Study of Nervous system
Neurology
Function of the Central Nervous system
What is integrating and processing information?
Components of the PNS
What are the nerves and sensors?
4 main parts of the brain
What are the brain stem, cerebellum, cerebrum, and diencephalon?
Two ends of the neuron
What is Dendrite and axon?
Main type of cell in the nervous system
what is a neuron?
Components of the Central Nervous system
What is the Brain and the spinal cord?
Two divisions of the PNS
What is the somatic and autonomic systems?
Considered the "soft mother
What is the Pia Mater?
efferent neurons
What is a sensory neuron?
Chemical messenger
what are Neurotransmitter?
Fluid protecting the brain and spinal cord
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
Carries impulses to and from the brain
What are the cranial nerves?
what make up the brainstem?
what is the medulla oblongata, PONS, and Midbrain?
Processes and sends information between neurons
What is the interneuron?
The autonomic nervous system is part of the
What is the peripheral nervous system?
Delivers sensory information to the CNS
What is the peripheral nervous system?
System that helps you "rest and digest"
What is the parasympathetic system?
What make up the Diencephalon?
What is the Thalmus, Hypothalamus and Pineal gland?
Neurons that carry impulses from the sensory receptors to the brain
what are afferent neurons?
The 2 main divisions of the nervous system
What are Central Nervous system and Peripheral nervous system?
Contains and ascending and descending tracts that carry information to and from the brain
What is the spinal cord?
what does the peripheral nervous system deliver to the central nervous system
What is sensory information?
The brains primary function
What is maintain homeostasis?
cerebrospinal fluid id produced in the
Arachnoid mater