Jimmy Neurons and Groupies
This process of a neuron takes impulses away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
What is -70mv?
Damage to this "mini brain" causes the uncoordinated, staggering walk of zombies.
What is the cerebellum?
This cranial nerve, #1, allows you to stop and smell the roses...and cake, and the body order of your fellow classmates.
What is the olfactory nerve?
This branch of the nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
"Armed" with many cilia, these glial cells help move cerebrospinal fluid around the ventricles.
What are ependymal cells?
This specialized protein helps re-establish the original potassium and sodium concentrations in/out of the axon after an action potential has occurred.
What is a sodium-potassium pump?
The most inferior part of the brainstem, this region regulates autonomic responses such as breathing and heart rate.
What is the medulla oblongata?
This cranial nerve, #2, allows you to see visions of beauty, ugly, and all things in-between.
What is the optic nerve?
This subdivision of the nervous system gets your heart racing when you are under the high stress of midterms and limits blood flow to your digestive system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Giving white matter it's color, this structure supplies insulation and speeds nerve impulses on the axon of a neuron.
This neurotransmitter is released at neuromuscular junctions and causes the muscle to contract.
What is Acetylcholine (Ach)?
This lobe of the brain not only processes sounds but also contains an olfactory region.
What is the temporal lobe?
This cranial nerve, #VIII (8), allows you to rock out to your favorites beats (listen to music).
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
This plexus is made up of the axillary, radial, median, and ulnar nerves.
What is the brachial plexus?
Receiving messages from the interneurons in the brain, these neurons travel to the muscles, glands and organs to illicit a response.
What are motor neurons?
These chemicals are released by the presynaptic axon at the synapse and can either cause and excitatory or inhibitory response.
What are neurotransmitters?
This region of the frontal cortex controls skeletal muscle movements.
What is the motor cortex?
This cranial nerve, #XI, allows you to shake your head "no" when your teacher asks if you're ready to take your test. It also allows you to shrug your shoulders when she says that you have to take it anyway.
What is the Accessory nerve?
After a stressful day of many tests and papers, this subdivision of the nervous system helps bring your body back to homeostasis by sending blood flow to your digestive system and slowing your heart rate.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
These are wrapped bundles of neuron processes located in the central nervous system.
What are tracts?
Due to the flow of ions with the concentration gradient, and the sudden reversal in charge across the membrane, an action potential is described as this type of event.
What is electrochemical?
Considered part of the endocrine system and the nervous system, this brain area regulates autonomic responses such as body temperature, hunger, and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus?
This cranial nerve, #VII, allows you to taste brussel sprouts and then frown when you realize they taste horrible.
What is the facial nerve?
These membranes around the brain, provide support and protection for the brain.
What are meninges (Dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater)?