On my last Nerve
Another name for the cell body of a nerve.
True or False: Neurons are specialized communication cells.
What is true.
Another name for Nerve cells.
What are Neurons?
The scientific study of the nervous system.
What is Neuroscience?
This part of the nerve represents the information receiver.
What is dendrites?
Name a type of neuron.
Sensory, motor, inter-neuron
This is where the cellular process occurs.
What is the cell body?
The gap between neurons.
What is synapse?
This part of the nerve transmits information to other neurons.
What is Axon?
This kind of neuron relays information from sense organs to the brain via spinal cord. ("input")
What is sensory neurons?
Name 2 systems apart of the Nervous system.
What is Central Nervous system (CNS) & Peripheral Nervous system (PNS)
This this is the function of a Neurotransmitter.
What is sending messages?
This part of the nerve speeds communication.
What's Myelin Sheath?
The function of this neuron relays signals from the central nervous system to the muscles.
What is Motor neurons?
Nervous tissues occur here.
Where is brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves?
Another name for glial cells.
What is Neuroglia?
Neuroglia cells functions for neurons.
What is for support and protection?
The resting charge of a neuron.
Slightly negative
Name the two types of cells in nervous tissues.
Neurons (nerves cells) & Neuroglia (glial cells)
___ and ___ are needed for cellular processes.
What is dendrites and a single axon?