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100
Works closely with the CNS.
What is the Endocrine System.
100
The portion of the Brain that is divided into right and left hemispheres, also called the forebrain.
What is the Cerebrum?
100
These three things make up the Brainstem.
What are the medula oblongata, pons, and midbrain?
100
Someone who is left handed is likely to be this side brain dominant.
What is the right side?
100
A cerebrovascular accident.
What is a stroke?
200
Carry nerve impulses from the CNS out to muscles and glands.
What are Motor Neurons?
200
Involved in storage of long term memory.
What is the temporal lobes?
200
This is the opening in the skull that the brainstem exits from.
What is the foramen magnum?
200
The two types of cells that are found in the nervous system.
What are neurons and neuroglia.
200
Stimulants that affect the neurotransimitters and receptor sites of the cells in the CNS.
What are caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine?
300
The nervous system uses these, while the endocrine uses hormones.
What are neurotransmitters?
300
These are the four main areas of the Brain.
What is the Cerebrum, Diencephalon, Cerebellum, and Brainstem?
300
The part of the brainstem that that contains reflex centers for visual and auditory stimuli and correlates information about muscle tone and posture.
What is the midbrain?
300
These two minerals are vital to transmitting impulses through neurons.
What are sodium and potassium?
300
A weakening and bulging of any artery.
What is an aneurysm?
400
A chemical that is found in the synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
400
The lobe that is primarily responsible for control if the voluntary skeletal muscles and is active during problem-solving moods.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
The place where the spinal cord ends.
What are the first and second lumbar vertebrae?
400
The principle that is applied when a neuron needs a threshold stimulus, or the minimum level of stimulus needed, to trigger a signal.
What is the "all-or-none" principle?
400
The effects of these on the CNS ranges from a feeling of well-being to euphoria to psychosis.
What is catecholamines or norepinephrine and dopamine.
500
These neurons carry impulses to the CNS.
What are afferent or sensory neurons?
500
This is found between the cerebrum and the midbrain and contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, pineal body and other small structures.
What is the diencephalon?
500
When this is stimulated the body is able to increase and decrease tone and maintain balance and equilibrium.
What is the motor cortex?
500
These are the three basic chemical categories of a neurotransmitter.
What are amino acids, amines, and peptides?
500
Can result in death because respiration and cardiac function are slowed; if continued they eventually stop.
What is brainstem depression?