You are getting on nerves!
This is where the real work of the brain occurs in these nerve cells. This is the basic unit of the nervous system.
What are neurons?
Where the nucleus of a neuron is housed.
What is the cell body?
This system is composed of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the CNS Central Nervous System?
This is underneath the gray matter.
What is the white matter?
Hearing is processed in this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
Neurons cannot function without the help of these cells.
What are the neuroglial cells aka neuroglis?
The axon is often covered by this fatty insulator.
What is myelin sheath?
The fluid that surrounds the spinal cord.
What is the cerebrospinal fluid?
The brain is divided into halves called.
What is hemispheres?
The lobe where sight is processed.
What is the occipital lobe?
Pathways that connect neurons to one another.
What are neural pathways?
What are the dendrites?
Composed of cell bodies, dendrites and axons.
What are neurons?
This allows the two hemsipheres of the brain to communicate.
What is the corpus callosum?
Where emotions, sequencing, logical thought are processed.
What is the frontal lobe?
The space at which a signal from one neuron is passed to another neuron.
What is a synapse?
Fibers project from the cell body of a neuron and conduct electrical signals away the cell body are:
What are the axons?
This system contains all the neurons involved in receiving information and sending it on to the spinal cord and brain.
What is the PNS-Peripheral Nervous System?
Controls the movement of voluntary muscles.
What is the cerebellum?
This is not a lobe.
What is the cerebellum?
The end of the axon is full of tiny sacs that contain these chemicals.
What are neurotransmitters?
The system of nerves that carries instructions from CNS to muscles and glands.
What is the ANS - autonomic nervous system?
The outer layer of the cerebrum is covered by this?
What is gray matter?
Receives and processes sensory information from the body.
What is the Parietal lobe?