Organization and nervous tissue
Action potential
Spinal cord and reflexes
Brain
Cranial nerves
Pictures: Nervous tissue and spinal cord
Pictures: Brain
100
1 function of the nervous system.
What is to send signals, what is to receive signals, what is to regulate internal body conditions (lots of others too)
100
- 70 mV
What is the number for resting membrane potential?
100
Cervical plexus
What is the plexus in the spinal cord in the region of the neck?
100
The 2 major regions of the brainstem.
What is the hindbrain and midbrain?
100
The number of the olfactory nerve
What is the name of cranial nerve I?
100
Name the structure labeled F
(Axon, Nissl bodies, axon terminal, dendrites, nucleus)
What are dendrites?
100
Name the structure labeled L
(Midbrain, Pons, Medulla oblogata, cerebellum, spinal cord)
What is the pons?
200
Axon.
What is the longest part of a neuron?
200
Voltage gated sodium channels.
What is open during the repolarization phase?
200
The location of cell bodies of sensory neurons near the spinal cord.
What is the dorsal root ganglion?
200
The specific brain region that controls heart rate.
What is the medulla (oblongata)?
200
The number for the optic nerve.
What is cranial nerve II?
200
The structure labeled C.
(Anterior median fissure, anterior horn, dorsal root ganglion, central canal, white matter)
What is the anterior horn?
200
The structure labeled E.
(Lateral ventricle, thalamus, cerebellum, cerebrum, fourth ventricle)
What is the cerebellum?
300
The types of muscles controlled by the nervous system.
What is skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle?
300
Continuous conduction.
What type of action potential that travels in a neuron without myelin and therefore must make action potentials along every possible section of the axon (Instead of jumping from node of Ranvier to node of Ranvier)
300
The body motions associated with the crossed extensor withdrawal reflex.
What is accidentally stepping on something (say like a porcupine (good luck finding a porcupine!)) and withdrawing that lower limb while shifting the weight onto the other lower limb?
300
The function of the ventricles.
Where is cerebrospinal fluid created using open spaces in the brain?
300
1 mneumonic (or saying) to help you remember the cranial nerves.
What is (Lots of answers) On Old Olympus Towering Tops A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops -- Note this one is slightly different listing cranial nerve 8 as auditory instead of vestibulocochlear
300
The glial cell labeled D.
What is an oligodendrocyte?
300
The space labeled I
What is the longitudinal fissure?
400
One similarity and the difference between oligodendrocytes and schwann cells.
What is the cells that make the myelin sheath but one in the central nervous system and one in the peripheral nervous system.
400
The cause of positive feedback loop for the action potential.
What is the influx of sodium that will activate more and more voltage gated sodium channels?
400
Two neurons associated with the brachial plexus.
What are the radial, axillary, musculocutaneous, ulnar and median nerves?
400
The structural arrangement between the pons, spinal cord and medulla oblongata?
What structures are connected, in a continuous fashion going from the spinal cord to the midbrain?
400
The names of 2 of the cranial nerves that have ONLY motor function.
What are the oculomotor, trochlear, abducens, accessory or hypoglossal nerve?
400
The general type of structure labeled E.
What is a synapse?
400
The function of the structure labeled J
What is receive sensory information from the spinal cord and brainstem, process the information and determine where to send the information for the rest of the brain.
500
A description of temporal summation.
What is a neuron getting multiple signals at the same location but at different times?
500
The reason action potentials travel forwards but not backwards (in the reverse direction)
What is the inactivation gate of the voltage gated sodium channels that guarantees the channels will not allow ion flow after a short time period?
500
The 5 parts of a reflex arc (in order).
What is sensory receptor, sensory neuron, integrating center, motor neuron and effector?
500
The 4 major lobes of the cerebrum with 1 major function of each lobe.
What is occipital for vision, parietal for sensory integration, temporal for hearing and frontal for conscious thought (other answers are possible)
500
The names of the cranial nerves that controls extrinsic eye muscles.
What are the oculomotor, trochlear and abducens nerves?
500
The function of the structure labeled K.
What is regenerate the action potential between the Nodes of Ranvier for saltatory conduction?
500
The name and number of the cranial nerve labeled A.
What is cranial nerve XII, the hypoglossal nerve?