Basics
What are the three parts of the Nervous System?
The Central Nervous System The Peripheral Nervous System The Autonomic Nervous System
What is another name for a cerebral vascular accident CVA?
Stroke
Which component of the nervous system is sort of like a highway?
The spinal cord
What do you call the part of the brain that sits posterior to the brain stem and inferior to the cerebrum
Cerebellum
What part of a neuron sends messages away from the nerve?
Axon
What are the main components of the Central Nervous System?
The Brain, the Spinal Cord,
What nervous system disease is auto immune, where myelin is destroyed in the central nervous system ?
Multiple Sclerosis
What is the largest part of the brain?
Cerebrum
What are the covering of the brain and spinal cord called?
Double if you can name the layers?
Mengines
Duration mater
Aracnoid mater
Pia mater
What part of the neuron recieves messages?
Dendrites
What are the cells of the nervous system?
Neurons (and neuroglia)
What disease is caused by the chicken pox virus that occurs when the immune system is weakened?
Shingles
What part of the brain is responsible for reasoning? Hint teens are still developing it.
Frontal Lobe
What connects the left and right hemisphere of the cerebrum
Corpus Callosum
What covers the axon that speeds up an electrical signal?
Myelin Sheeth
What do you call messages that are sent to the brain (sensory).
Afferent
What is the motor neuron disease - ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also called?
Lou Gehrig's Disease
What part of the brain regulates temperature?
Hypothalamus.
What name two parts of the brain stem
Mid Brain
Pods
Medulla Oblongata
What cells create the myelin sheeth?
Schwann Cells
This nervous system is responsible for helping you relax and digest your food.
parasympathetic nervous system
What does FAST stand for when looking at a CVA patient?
FACE. ARMS. SPEECH. TIME
What part of the brain keeps you breathing and heart beating(reflexes)?
Brain Stem
Name the parts of the diencephalon
Thalmus and Hypothalamus
What are the chemical messengers called that are released by the neuron?
Neurotransmitter