Brain Navigation
What term describes the direction toward the back relative to the front?
Posterior
True or False: All types of neurons can grow back if damaged?
False
The synapse is the space between the axon terminal of the __________ and the dendrites of the post-synaptic neuron.
Pre-synaptic
Which lobe is responsible for memory and hearing?
Temporal
What glial cell provides nutrients and absorbs excess and waste?
Astrocytes
The dorsal side of the brain is toward the _______.
Top
What part of the neuron receives incoming signal?
Dendrites
Within the axon terminal, synaptic vesicles contain what?
Neurotransmitters
Thalamus
Which glial cell is involved in an immune response or breach of the blood brain barrier?
Microglia
A view of the brain when the person is facing forwards (towards you)
Coronal
What is the fatty insulating substance that helps speeds up the neuronal signal?
Myelin
Neurotransmitters bind with the _________ on the dendrite of the post-synaptic neuron.
receptors
What lobe integrates sensory information?
parietal
Oligodendrocytes are glial cells that myelinate axons of neurons in the ________, while Schwann cells myelinate axons of neurons in the ______________.
Central nervous system
Peripheral nervous system