Vocab
Structures
Functions
Disorders
Key Terms
100
Nerve cell structure that carries impulses away from the cell body to the dendrites.
What is the axon?
100
Afferent neurons, emerges from skin or sense organ to the spinal cord to the brain
What are the sensory neurons?
100
Carrying messages from skin or organs to the brain.
What is sensory function?
100
Seizure disorder of the brain.
What is epilepsy?
100
Elevated folds on the surface of the cerebrum.
What are convolutions?
200
Any of the 3 linings enclosing the brain and spinal cord.
What is the meninges?
200
Efferent neurons, carry messages from the brain to the spinal cord to the muscles and glands.
What are motor neurons?
200
Carrying impulses from brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands.
What is motor function?
200
Inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord.
What is meningitis?
200
The gap that the message goes through.
What is a synapse?
300
Part of the cerebrum that lies beneath the parietal bone.
What is the parietal lobe?
300
Interneurons, carry impulses from sensor to motor neurons.
What are associative neurons.
300
Carrying impulses from sensory to motor neurons.
What is associative function?
300
Nerve endings in the cortex that degenerate and block signals that pass between nerve cells.
What is alzheimer's disease?
300
Divides the brain.
What is a fissure?
400
Made up of 12 pairs of cranial nerves and 21 pairs of spinal nerves.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
400
Peripheral nervous system is divided into these 2 parts.
What is the somatic and autonomic nervous system?
400
Function involved in reflexes.
What is the associative function?
400
Group of disorders that involve brain and nervous system functions.
What is cerebral palsy?
400
Response to a stimulus.
What is excitability?
500
Part of the brainstem
What is the pons?
500
4 lobes of the brain.
What is parietal, temporal, occipital, and frontal lobes?
500
The autonomic and somatic nerbous systems are involved in this function.
What is the motor function?
500
Shakey, slow movement, death of dopamine generating cells, degenerative disorder of the CNS.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
500
Unconscious and involuntary response.
What is a reflex?
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