Process of a neuron that receives input from other neurons
What is a dendrite?
100
The two parts of the nervous system
What is the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system?
100
The brain contains nerve centers associated with sensory functions and is responsible for what?
What is sensations and perceptions
100
Two diseases that affect the nervous system
What is Tay-Sachs and Epilepsy?
100
A doctor that performs surgery on the brain, spinal cord, or nerves
What is a neurosurgeon?
200
A nerve fiber; conducts a nerve impulse away from a neuron cell body
What is an axon?
200
The two parts of the central nervous system
What is the brain and the spinal cord?
200
The central nervous system does what?
What is issues motor commands to skeletal muscles and carries on higher mental functions, such as memory and reasoning.
200
A problem in which patients experience reoccurring seizures varying in severity and length.
What is epilepsy?
200
Doctor that diagnoses and treats mental disorders
What is a psychiatrist?
300
Electrochemical process of depolarization and repolarization along a nerve fiber
What is a nerve impulse?
300
The number of pairs of cranial nerves
What is 12?
300
The central nervous system also contains what?
What is muscles movement and organ control
300
The most common neurological disease
What is epilepsy?
300
A doctor that studies the actions of drugs on the nervous system
What is a neuropharmacologist?
400
Functional connection between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite or cell body of another neuron or the membrane of another cell type
What is a synapse?
400
The 5 major regions of the brain
What is frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, and insula?
400
The brain provides what characteristics?
What is personality
400
A disease that over time kills brain and spinal cells. This disease is inherited and over a short period of time (less than 1 year) lose functions of major motor skills.
What is Tay-Sachs?
400
A job related to the nervous system that was not mentioned already.
What is multiple answers?
500
Neuron that transmits an impulse from a receptor to the central nervous system; Neuron located between a sensory neuron and a motor neuron; Neuron that transmits impulses from the central nervous system to an effector
What is sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons?
500
The occipital lobe's location?
What is the back of the head?
500
Functions of Nervous system
What is Sensory- sensory receptors detect changes and converts into signals(nerve impulses); Integration- nerve impulses brought together at the central nervous system to create sensations, add to memory, or produce thoughts; Motor- impulses carried to effectors (muscles or glands)