Brain
Four lined cavities of the brain are called
What is ventricles
Another name for nerve cells
What are neurons
Seizure disorder
What is epilepsy
3 divisions of the nervous system
Central, peripheral, & autonomic
Carry messages to muscles and glands
What are motor or efferent
Controls motor functions
What makes up the CNS
What are the brain & spinal cord
Causes shuffling gait, tremors, pill rolling & muscle rigidity
Largest part of the brain
What is the cerebrum
Localized mass of blood collection
What is a hematoma
What re dura mater, arachnoid, & pia mater
Carries messages to the cell body
What are dendrites and axons
Inflammation of the lining of brain & spinal cord
What is meningitis
Made up of 12 pairs of cranial nerves an 31 pairs of spinal nerves
What is the peripheral nervous system
Lumbar puncutures are done
What is 3rd & 4th lumbar vertebrae
The brain weighs approximately
What is 3 lbs or 1,400 grams
Sensory or afferent
Inflammatory disease of CNS where immune cells attack the myelin sheath
What is multiple sclerosis
Messages "jump" from one cell to the next
What is synapse
Vaccination had eradicated what disease
What is poliomyelitis
The thalamus and hypothalamus are located where
What is the diencephalon
Neurotransmitter between muscle cells & the nervous system
Progressive disease with symptoms of remembering recently learned information
What is Alzheimer's disease
Grey matter of brain is referring to
Each cell only has one
What is an axon