Brain/Spinal Chord
What is the job of the dendrite?
What is picks up signals and sends them to the cell body.
What are Nerves that receive sensory stimuli called?
Sensory Nerve cells
What does the brain do with the impulses it receives from the spinal cord and 12 pairs of cranial nerves?
It decides what type of reaction you should have.
What is the cell body?
The large center part of a neuron, directs the action of the nerve (this is where the nucleus is)
Do neurons regenerate if they are damaged?
What is no
What are the building blocks of the nervous system? (Without these signals cannot be sent from point A to point B)
Neurons
What is the myelin sheath?
A myelin sheath is a sleeve (sheath) that's wrapped around each nerve cell (neurons).
What are the 3 main components that make up the Nervous System?
The Brain, the Spinal Cord, and the Neurons
Second largest organ in the Central Nervous Nervous System
What is the Spinal Cord (The largest is the Brain)
What is the axon?
What is the long strand that carries the impulses away from the cell body
What part of the eye (located on the retina) allows you to see colors?
What are cones
What type of doctor treats problems with the Nervous System?
Neurologist
Which component of the nervous system is sort of like a highway?
The spinal cord
The synapse is the gap between two ______________
What is neurons
What is the job of a neuron?
Neurons are made to transmit messages throughout the body.
what is an axon?
The appendage of the neuron that transmits impulses away from the cell body