What is the part of the brain that connects the medulla with the mid brain?
Pons
100
What is the outer layer of the cerebrum?
Cerebal Cortex
100
What part of the nervous system regulates the involuntary activity of the heart, intestines, and glands, including digestion, respiration, perspiration, metabolism, and blood-pressure modulation?
Peripheral Nervous System
100
What is the taste and sensations from the neck, thorax, and abdomen?
Vagus
100
What is the nerve pathway involved in a reflex action including at its simplest a sensory nerve and a motor nerve with a synapse between?
Reflex Arc
200
What is located beneath the brain?
Pituitary Gland
200
What is the most external layer of the brain and predominantly contains neuronal bodies?
Gray Matter
200
What is part of the autonomic nervous system raises blood pressure and heart rate, constricts blood vessels, and dilates the pupils in situations of stress?
Sympathetic Nervous System
200
Which cranial nerve functions smelling?
Olfactory Nerve
200
What is a protein molecule usually found embedded within the plasma membrane surface of a cell that receives chemical signals from outside the cell?
Receptor
300
What is the inferior most part of the brain stem?
Medulla oblongata
300
What is that complex of nerve tissues that controls the activities of the body?
Central Nervous System
300
Which part of the peripheral nervous system transmits signals from the central nervous system to skeletal muscle and from receptors of external stimuli to the central nervous system, thereby mediating sight, hearing, and touch?
Somatic Nervous System
300
Which cranial nerve functions vision?
Optic Nerve
300
What are the nerve cells that transmit sensory information?
Sensory Neuron
400
What part of the brain controls important cognitive skills in humans?
Frontal Lobe
400
Which part of the brain controls vision?
Occipital Lobe
400
Which nervous system controls skeletal muscle?
Somatic Nervous System
400
What cranial nerve functions with eye movement and pupil constriction?
Oculomotor Nerve
400
What is the nerve cell forming part of a pathway along which impulses pass from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland?
Motor Neuron
500
What part of the brain receives and processes sensory information from the body?
Parietal Lobe
500
What controls hearing and some other speech functions?
Temporal Lobe
500
Which part of the involuntary nervous system serves to slow the heart rate, increase intestinal and glandular activity, and relax the sphincter muscles?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
500
What cranial nerve functions with hearing and balance?
Vestibulocochlear Nerve
500
What is an organ or cell that acts in response to a stimulus?