Anatomy Function
The relay station for all senses except smell.
What is the thalamus?
Responsible for behavior and personality, voluntary muscle movements, mood, emotions.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
The nervous system that consists of a network of nerves branching out from the central nervous system.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
Receives the signal from another neuron.
What is the dendrite?
Carries messages to your brain and spinal cord from the receptors in your skin.
What are sensory neurons?
Describe the functions of the olfactory bulbs and tracts.
What is to help you smell?
Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing (being able to tell where objects are in space), language, and memory.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This connects the brain to the spinal cord and controls involuntary functions.
What is the brain stem (medulla)?
Contains the nucleus and is responsible for integrating the signal from the dendrite.
What is the cell body?
Nerve cells within the nervous system responsible for converting external stimuli from the organism's environment into internal electrical impulses.
What are sensory neurons?
This controls body temperature, thirst, appetite, sleep patterns, and other processes in our bodies that happen automatically.
What is the hypothalamus?
Contains the visual cortex.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This is responsible for the conscious perception of visual input, the ability to interpret what you see.
What is the visual cortex?
Insulates the axon.
What is Myelin Sheath?
Sends messages from your brain and spinal cord to your muscles.
What are motor neurons?
The largest and uppermost portion of the brain. It consists of the hemispheres and lobes.
What is the cerebrum?
Responsible for processing smell and sound, as well as the ability to recognize and understand words and language.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
The central nervous system contains what?
What is the Brain and Spinal cord?
Nerve cells that pass signals from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle of gland.
What are motor neurons?
Muscle Weakness, Painful Cramps, Muscle Shrinkage is a sign of this damage.
What is motor nerve damage?
This is a nervous structure related to the sense of smell. It is seen from the bottom view of the brain.
What is the olfactory bulbs?
Contains the motor cortex.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
The basic unit of our nervous system.
Transmission across the synaptic gap is accomplished by these chemical messengers.
What are neurotransmitters?
Decreased sensation, tingling or numbness, and loss in reflexes signals this type of nerve damage.
What is sensory nerve damage?