Nervous System
... transfer information to the CNS, and ... transfer information out of the CNS
What are afferent neurons and efferent neurons?
The brain includes the brainstem, which includes the ..., ..., and .... The brain also incluedes the hypothalamus and thalamus, which are both part of the .... The brain also includes the ... and the ....
What are the midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata, diencephalon, cerebellum, and cerebrum?
... is the conversion of stimulus energy into a change in the membrane potential, called the ... of a sensory receptor
What are sensory transduction and receptor potential?
This is the sensory organ for hearing
What is the organ of Corti?
Insects, crustaceans, and some polychaete worms have ..., which consist of up to several thousand light detectors called ....
What are compound eyes and ommatidia?
Formed in the brain by filtering arterial blood, this supplies the nutrients with nutrients and hormones and carries away wastes
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
The difference in hemisphere function is called ..., and the two hemispheres exchange information through the fibers of the ....
What are lateralization and the corpus callosum?
For neuronal receptors, the receptor is ..., and for non-neuronal receptors, the receptor does ....
What are afferent neuron and regulation of the afferent neuron?
Invertebrates sense gravity using organs called ... which contain ... and are able to detect the movement of granules called ...
What are statocysts, mechanoreceptors, and statoliths?
Vision begins when photons of light strike the inner layer of the ..., which contains two types of photoreceptors: ... and .... The energy of each photon is caused by the shift of a bond in ..., which is part of ....
What are the retina, rods, cones, retinal, and rhodopsin?
In most cnidarians, interconnected neurons form a ... which controls contraction and expansion of the gastrovascular cavity
What is a nerve net?
The limbic system is composed of the ..., ..., and .... The ... is especially essential to the storage and recall of ....
What are the amygdala, hippocampus, parts of the thalamus, amygdala, and emotional memory?
An animal orients itself using Earth's magnetic field, uses whiskers to get detailed information about its environment, and is able to detect infrared radiation emitted by prey. This animal is using ..., ..., and ....
What are electromagnetic receptors, mechanoreceptors, and thermoreceptors?
The ... and ... contain granules called ... that allow us to perceive position relative to gravity or linear movement
What are utricle, saccule, and otoliths? At this point I feel like this is the Lord of the Rings or smth
When cyclic GMP breaks down, ... receptors close, causing the cell to undergo ....
What are sodium and hyperpolarization?
... consists primarily of neuron cell bodies, ... consists of bundled axons, and they both make up the ... and the ...
What are grey matter, white matter, the brain, and the spinal cord?
Essential to the formation of memories, ... is the capacity of the nervous system to be remodeled, especially in response to its own activity. Short-term memory is accessed via ..., which are replaced by connections to the cerebral cortex when transferred to ....
What are neuronal plasticity, temporary links formed in the hippocampus, and long-term memory?
The brain distinguishes stimuli solely by ... because ....
What are the path along which action potentials arrive, and action potentials from sensory receptors travelling along neurons that are dedicated to a particular stimulus?
After propagating through the canal, pressure waves dissipate as they strike the ... at the end of the ...
What are the round window and vestibular canal?
The ... is the center of the visual field and contains no rods but a high density of cones
What is the fovea?
Carrying signals to skeletal muscles, the ... system can be .... Regulating smooth and cardiac muscles, the ... system is generally .... Controlling the activity of the digestive tract, the ... system is part of the ... which also includes the ... and the .... All are part of the ...
What are motor, volontary or involuntary, autonomic nervous, involuntary, enteric nervous, autonomic nervous, parasympathetic division, sympathetic division, and peripheral nervous system?
The ... is essential for language, cognition, memory, consciousness, and awareness of our surroundings. The cognitive functions reside mainly in the outer layer, known as the .... It is composed of the frontal lobe, which includes the ..., ..., and .... It is also composed of the parietal lobe, which includes the ... and the .... It is also composed of the occipital lobe, which includes the ... and the .... It is also composed of the temporal lobe, which includes the ... and ....
What are the cerebrum, cerebral cortex, motor cortex, prefrontal cortex, Broca's area, somatosensory cortex, sensory assocation cortex, visual assocation cortex, visual cortex, auditory cortex, and Wernicke's area? Review the slides and know the basic functions of all of these
A burnt out chemist worked with a lot of pyridine while doing multiple porphyrin reduction reactions in one day. His ability to smell pyridine depends on his ... which depends on his .... After working with pyrdine all day and throwing up multiple times, he got somewhat used to the smell and underwent ....
What are olfaction, chemoreceptors, and sensory adaptation?
The sensory organ for hearing is known as the .... The process of hearing begins when moving air reaches the ..., which causes the ... to vibrate in response to vibrations in the air. Then, the three bones of the ... transfer the vibrations to the .... When one of these bones, the ..., vibrates against the ..., it creates pressure waves in the fluid inside the .... These waves push down on the cochlear duct and basilar membrane, causing the membrane and attached hair cells to vibrate up and down, which causes the ... to open/close. This results in a change in the frequency of action potentials in the auditory nerve, which the brain interprets as sound
What are the organ of Corti, outer ear, tympanic membrane, middle ear, oval window, stapes, oval window, cochlea, and ion channels?
In the dark, rods and cones release ... into synapses with .... They are either ... or ... in response. In the light, rods and cones ..., shutting off the release of ..., which triggers a change in the membrane potential of the .... Some information passes directly from photoreceptors to ... to .... Together, the rods and cones that feed information to one ... cell define a ... field.
What are glutamate, bipolar cells, hyperpolarized, depolarized, hyperpolarize, glutamate, bipolar cells, bipolar cells, ganglion cells, ganglion, and receptive?