Brain
What is the largest part of the brain? Made up of the 4 lobes
What is the cerebrum!!
What is Peripheral Nervous System
All the neurons in the human body
Extensions from the cell body that receive messages from other nerve cells
Dendrites
Progressive degenerative brain disease, victims experience memory loss, irritability, and confusion
Alzheimer’s Disease
Communication link between the left and right cerebral hemispheres
Corpus Collosum
What is Autonomic Nervous System
Involves Involuntary Responses to Stimuli
The space where the axon terminal of one neuron can transfer an impulse to another neuron
What is the Synapse
Medical condition: Slight or mild brain injury with common bleeding and tearing of nerve fibers, likely resulting in some memory loss.
What is a Concussion
The part of the brain responsible for coordination, posture, and motor learning
Cerebellum
The PNS is divided into 2 main sub divisions, what are they?
Sensory and Motor
The lobe responsible for processing emotion, future planning, cognitive functions
Frontal
This lobe helps you process memories, speech, language, and auditory stimuli
What is the Temporal Lobe
Fluid found between meninges in the CNS, acting as a shock absorber and continually circulating around the brain.
Cerebrospinal Fluid
What is Somatic Nervous system
Regulates activities under conscious control
chemical signals of neurons that transmit an impulse across the synapse to another cell
Neurotransmitters
Medical condition: a blocked or ruptured blood vessel supplying a region of the brain, leading to the loss of some functions or death.
Stroke
deep grooves divide the cerebrum into four lobes
Fissures
What is the Reflex Arc
The pathway the impulse travels through sensory neurons, than the spinal cord, and directly back via motor neurons for a quick and unconscious response to a stimulus.
Division responsible for 'fight or flight' responses, increasing activities in the body
What is Sympathetic Division
What do we call the change in electrical potential that allows the transmission of a nerve impulse along the axon
Action Potential
a small, bean-shaped gland situated at the base of your brain, The hormones it produces help regulate important functions, such as growth, blood pressure and reproduction.
Pituitary Gland