bears a major responsibility for maintaining body homeostasis
What is nervous system
100
What are organized into several neuronal pools?
What is CNS Neurons
100
Growing tip of an axon
What is growth cone
100
A medical specialist in the study of the nervous system and its functions and disorder
What is Neurologist
200
how many types of neuroglia are in the CNS
What is 4
200
what nervous system contains brain and spinal cord
What is CNS
200
Four basic circuit types
What is diverging, converging , reverberating, and parallel after -discharging.
200
potential neurons become amitotic and migrate externally into their characteristic positions
What is neuroblasts
200
Substance that is poisonous to nervous tissue
What is neurotoxin
300
How many types of neuroglia is in the PNS
What is 2
300
What nervous system contains the mainly cranial and spinal nerves?
What is PNS
300
what type of motor response is a reflex
What is involuntary
300
Growth cone gropes along like an amoeba with oozing process
What is Filopodia
300
Caused be varicella-zoster virus and very painful
What is Shingles
400
Has a cell body and cytoplasmic processes called axons and dendrites
What is Neurons
400
major function of PNS
What is sensory division
400
The whole system works in a predictable all or nothing manner
What is Serial processing
400
What happens to neurons if they fail to make appropriate or functional synaptic contacts.
What is cell death
400
Transmitted by a bite from an infected animal
What is Rabies
500
Is formed in the PNS by Schwann cells and in the CNS by Oligodendrocytes.
What is Myelin sheath
500
what are the 2 functional subdivisions of ANS
What is Sympathetic and the Parasympathetic division
500
Inputs are segregated into many pathways and different parts of the neural circuitry deal simultaneously with the information delivered by each pathway.
What is Parallel processing
500
Programmed cell death also normal part of development process