Pinky and the Brain
The number of pairs of spinal nerves in the spinal column.
What is 31?
Where the Spinal Nerves and Cranial Nerves are located.
Where is Peripheral Nervous System?
fatty insulation that wraps around the axon body
What is Myelin?
a special fluid between the brain and the skull.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
A large bundle of neuron axons.
What is a nerve?
The names of the two divisions of the Nervous System
What are the central and peripheral nervous systems?
The empty space between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of another.
What is a synapse?
The sense of touch is part of which of the nervous systems
What is the peripheral nervous system?
a bone in the spine that supports the spinal chord and bears body weight
What is a vertebrae
It connects neurons to one another through learning and experiences.
What are interneurons?
The four lobes of the brain
What are the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes?
The 5 divided areas of the spinal nerves.
What are the Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral and coccygeal nerves?
the neural pathway that a nerve impulse follows during a reflex action, allowing for a quick, automatic response to a stimulus without conscious brain involvement
What is a reflex arc?
Chemicals produced in different glands in your body that deliver messages and interact with certain cells, telling them what to do.
What are hormones?
The part of the brain that is more active during creative pursuits.
What is the right side of the brain?