Brain
Connects brain to body and is protected by vertebrae
What is Spinal Cord
Spinal Nerves and Cranial Nerves are located (PNS/CNS)
Where is Peripheral Nervous System
Name for the cell body
What is soma
Structure that controls memory formation
What is Hippocampus
Second largest organ in the Central Nervous Nervous System
What is the Spinal Cord
System Involves Involuntary Responses to Internal Stimuli
What is Autonomic Nervous System
Allows axons to conduct electric signals faster
What is myelin/myelin sheaths
What lobe of the brain is still forming in teenagers?
What is the frontal lobe
Three parts of the Brain Stem
What is Midbrain, Pons, Medulla Oblongata
Carries impulse from receptors in skin, skeletal muscles, and joints to the brain
What are Sensory Neurons
Makes myelin sheaths
What are the oligodendrocytes -OR- Schwann cells
This lobe helps you understand speech, choose words to express thought
What is the Parietal lobe
There are 12 pairs of cranial nerves and 31 pairs of
What is Spinal nerves
System with Conscious control of skeletal muscles
What is Somatic Nervous system
A connection between 2 neurons where neurotransmitters are released
What are synapses
The four lobes of the brain
What are Frontal, Temporal, Parietal, Occipital
Communication of the Peripheral Nervous System is by way of
What is Spinal Cord
System for Resting & Digesting, Fight or Flight
What is Sympathetic Nervous System
A synapse between the axon of a presynaptic neuron and the dendrites of the postsynaptic neuron
What is axodendritic synapse
The functional system of the brain helps store memories and emotions
What is limbic system