Nervous System Structure
The basic building blocks of the nervous system that transmit information.
What are neurons?
The nervous system made up of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
The body’s automatic response to a perceived threat, increasing heart rate and alertness.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
The part of a neuron that receives incoming messages from other cells.
What is a dendrite?
The nervous system that connects the CNS to the rest of the body.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
A machine used to record the brain’s electrical activity.
What is an EEG (electroencephalograph)?
The long fiber of a neuron that carries signals away from the cell body.
What is an axon?
The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls involuntary actions like heart rate.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
The brain hemisphere typically associated with language and analytical thinking.
What is the left hemisphere?
Chemical messengers that transmit signals across the synapse.
What are neurotransmitters?
The division of the autonomic nervous system that prepares the body for stress.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
The brain hemisphere typically associated with creativity, spatial skills, and emotion.
What is the right hemisphere?