Nervous System
The brain.
What is the control center of the nervous system?
nerves cells of the nervous system
What are Neurons?
The peripheral nervous system is composed of the ________ that runs off the spinal cord.
nerves
It is part of a neuron that receives messages from other neurons.
What is a dendrite?
The function of this lobe is for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
Provides feedback to the brain about a stimulus
What are sensory receptors?
An electrical signal that creates a bodily response
What is Stimulus?
The 2 major divisions of the nervous system are the ______ nervous system (CNS) and the ________ Nervous System (PNS).
Central and Peripheral
a nerve cell of the nervous system
What are Neurons?
The function of this lobe is for hearing and smell.
What is the temporal lobe?
The brain and the spinal cord
What are the 2 structures found in the central nervous system?
Cell body, dendrites and the axon
What are the 3 part of a neuron composed of?
Neurotransmitters are helper molecules that helps to carry the _____ across the synapse because the neurons do not touch each other.
Signals or impulse
These increase the speed of a nerve signal down the axon.
What are myelin sheaths?
The function of this lobe is for personality, memory, and thinking.
What is the frontal lobe?
Stimulus to sensory receptors to sensory neurons to spinal cord to brain to motor neurons to a body response
What is the pathway from a stimulus to a response?
The next step when the brain sends information for the body to respond. It goes from the brain to the ____ _____.
What are Motor Neurons?
The _______ is one of the type of nerve cells for the nervous system.
neuron
12 pairs of cranial nerves
What is the number of cranial nerves?
The function of this lobe is for language and speech.
What is the parietal lobe?
controls involuntary functions
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
Carries impulses to the spinal cord.
What is Sensory Neurons?
______ means voluntary movements that allow us to control our body's movements.
Somatic
Highways : Cars as Nerves : ________
What is an impulses or signals?
At the back of the brain on the brainstem. Helps to tell back from the front of the brain.
What is the cerebellum?