Brainy Bunch
This contains the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
This controls the skeletal muscles
What is the somatic nervous system?
This regulates involuntary activities
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This contains the neurons located outside of the brain and spinal cord
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The other name for the backbone
What is the spinal cord?
This part of the brain is the biggest
What is the cerebrum?
The name for nerve cells
What are neurons?
The nerve that carries impulses from the ear to the brain
What is the auditory nerve?
This part of the neuron receives impulses from other neurons
What is a dendrite?
This nervous system disorder damages brain cells that control movement
What is Parkinson's disease?
The gland that controls how energy from food is used
What is the thyroid gland?
The chemical messengers used by the endocrine system
What are hormones?
The part of the body that is the command enter for the whole body
What is the brain?
The part of the neuron that send impulse on from other neurons
What is the axon?
The gap between neurons
What is the synapse?
The specific group of cells a certain hormone can affect
An action that happens before the brain has time to think about the action
What is a reflex?
This nervous system disorder destroys the myelin sheaths on some neurons
What is multiple sclerosis?
A time when our brain is active even though we are sleeping
What is REM sleep?
The gland that produces hormones that control other glands
What is the pituitary gland?
What is epilepsy?
A group of special cells near the base of the brain; regulate the pituitary gland
What is the hypothalamus?
The area inside the temporal lobe, necessary for making new long-term memories
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the cerebrum controls conscious movement
What is the frontal lobe?
This system works more slowly than the nervous system; uses chemical messengers called hormones
What is the endocrine system?