Neurons
Peripheral Nervous System
Tidbits
Lobes of the Cerebral Hemispheres
Cerebral Hemispheres
100
Nerve cell or nerve fiber.
What is a neuron?
100
Number of cranial nerves and spinal nerves
What is 12 and 31?
100
Maintains many homeostatic mechanisms.
What is the hypothalamus?
100
Responsible for vision.
What is occipital lobe?
100
The 2 large hemispheres of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
200
Process that carries information away from the cell body.
What is an axon?
200
Branch of nervous system responsible for involuntary action.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
200
Center for respiratory function control.
What is the brainstem? or What is the medulla and pons?
200
Lobe where hearing is interpreted.
What is temporal lobe?
200
Nervous tissue that joins the two cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
300
Cell body.
What is the soma?
300
Branch of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response.
What is sympathetic nervous system?
300
Cardiac control center.
What is the medulla oblongata?
300
Controls muscles of speech and is the center for reason and logic.
What are the frontal lobes?
300
Outer layer of gray matter.
What is the cerebral cortex?
400
Insulates the axon.
What is myelin?
400
Carries information away from a receptor and towards the CNS.
What is a sensory or afferent neuron?
400
Smooths out skeletal muscle movements.
What is the cerebellum?
400
Center for the perception of skin sensations such as pain, touch, and temperature.
What are the parietal lobes?
400
Produce dopamine.
What are the basal ganglia?
500
Enables repair when the peripheral nervous system is damaged.
What is the neurilemma?
500
Includes a receptor, sensory fiber, possibly interneurons, a motor fiber, and effector.
What is a reflex?
500
This structure connects the cerebellar hemispheres.
What is the vermis?
500
Seat of intelligence and personality.
What are the frontal lobes?
500
Relay station for information traveling to the cerebral cortex.
What is the thalamus?
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