Structure and Function
The brain, brain stem, and spinal cord
What are the components of the central nervous system?
The largest part of the brain
What is the cerebrum?
The root word of "brain."
What is "enceph?"
Sudden electrical activity in the brain causing seizures.
What is epilepsy?
The number of cranial nerves.
What is 31?
A structure is responsible for sending out electrical messages called "impulses"
What is a neuron?
The medulla oblongata and the pons are located here.
What is the brain stem?
This suffix means "paralysis."
What is "-plegia?"
The common name for cerebrovascular accident.
What is a stroke?
This side of the brain will control the right side of the body.
What is the left side of the brain?
The two divisions of the peripheral nervous system.
What are the autonomic and the somatic nervous systems?
This lobe of the brain in responsible for personalities.
What is the frontal lobe?
This term means disease of the nerves.
What is neuropathy?
A dysfunction in the hippocampus, which helps regulate emotional response, results in episodes of mania and/or depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
This nerve crosses over into the brain, allowing the brain to produce an image of what is seen.
What is the optic nerve?
This nervous system is responsible for activating the stress response of "fight or flight."
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The region of the cranium where the temporal lobes can be found.
What is the temple region?
The definition of meningitis.
What is inflammation of the meninges/membranes?
A mental condition characterized by excessive apprehensiveness about real or perceived threats
What is anxiety?
Involuntary reflexes are controlled by this neural circuit.
What is the reflex arc?
Name two of the 3 functions of the nervous system?
This lobe on the left side of the brain, is responsible for language production.
What is the Broca's area?
The common name for "cephalgia."
What is a "headache?"
A chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord
What is multiple sclerosis?
The longest nerve in the body.
What is the sciatic nerve?