Structure of a neuron
An extension of a neuron that receives information
What is a dendrite?
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neuroscience cognition and behavior
Neurotransmitters are what kind of messenger?
What is chemical?
The central nervous system is made up of these structures
What are the brain and spinal cord?
All sensory organs contain these dendrites that react to stimuli
What are sensory receptors?
The extension of a neuron that sends information to the next neuron
What is the axon?
Who is department chair?
Who is Dr. Dwyer?
The neurotransmitter located at the neuromuscular junction
What is acetylcholine?
This division of the peripheral nervous system is composed of sensory neurons that send signals from receptors to the central nervous system
What is the sensory or afferent division?
What thermoreceptors respond to
What are changes in temperature?
Fatty, whitish material surrounding axons that speed up the electrical impulse
What is myelin?
Where are all NCB faculty offices located
Sometimes referred to as the "happy chemical", it is targeted for increase by most anti-depressant drugs
What is serotonin?
This part of the motor or efferent division of the peripheral nervous system controls involuntary responses. Think your body on "autopilot".
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Children have more of these than adults, which causes them to be "picky eaters"
What are taste buds?
Cells surrounding the axon that make myelin in the pns
What are Schwann cells?
In the NCB department who are some participants for the research labs.
What are humans, rats, and zebrafish.
This neurotransmitter is delivered via the EpiPen when someone is experiencing a severe allergic reaction
What is epinephrine?
The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system is engaged when you are scared or nervous. What is this response called?
What is the "flight or fight" response?
Sound waves enter the ear canal and then vibrate this, which can sometimes burst
What is the eardrum?
The main part of the neuron that contains the nucleus and other organelles
What is the cell body or soma?
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Hales, Bonds, Blaser, Getz, Wenzel, Thieu, and Sgoutas-Emch
The most common excitatory neurotransmitter of your nervous system. It is most abundant in the brain.
What is glutamate?
The peripheral nerves that send signals between the CNS and the areas of the body below the head
What are spinal nerves?
This is the part of the eye that is colored. It works with the pupil to regulate light entering the eye.
What is the iris?