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This system is comprised of brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
These are glia cells that wrap themselves around a neuron to protect it.
What is a myelin sheath?
This neurotransmitter controls movement, learning, attention, and emotion.
What is dopamine?
This disease is caused by a bacterium that leads to the failure of sensory neurons (the inability to feel).
What is Leprosy?
These are neurons that receive initial stimuli.
What is a Sensory Neuron?
This system contracts the skeletal muscles.
What is the somatic nervous system?
These are two parts of a neuron specifically designed for the sending and receiving of electrical impulses.
What are the axon and dendrite?
A deterioration of this neurotransmitter causes Alzheimer's.
What is Acetylcholine?
This disease is caused by a lack of nutrition to motor neurons and results in the inability to send signals to muscles.
What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
These neurons stimulate muscles to create movement.
What are motor neurons?
This system controls the activity of organs and various involuntary muscles.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
These are chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gap.
What are neurotransmitters?
An oversupply of this transmitter can lead to migraines.
What is Glutamate?
This disease is caused by an undersupply of dopamine and the failure of a region in the midbrain, causing shaking, rigidity, and difficulty of movement.
What is Parkinson's disease?
These neurons connect the sensory and motor neurons.
What are interneurons?
This system carries information from the Central Nervous System to muscles and glands.
What is the efferent system?
These block a neurotransmitter's action.
What are antagonists?
Seizures, tremors, or insomnia could be caused by an undersupply of this neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
This disease is caused by an inability to produce muscle dependent proteins and causes deterioration of muscle mass.
What is Muscular Dystrophy?
These nerves control involuntary movement.
What are autonomic nerves?
This system is part of the Autonomic Nervous System that 'calms'.
what is the parasympathetic system?
The junction between the axon tip of a sending neuron and dendrite of the cell body of the receiving neuron.
What is the synaptic gap?
An undersupply of this neurotransmitter leads to Parkinson's disease.
What is dopamine?
This disease is caused by a deterioration of the myelin sheath and causes the failure of the central nervous system to communicate with the peripheral nervous system.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
These neurons reabsorb neurotransmitters.
What are sending neurons?