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Nerves
Nerve Functions
Brain
Spinal and Brain
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Masses of nerve cells that transmit information to other nerves, tissues, or cells
What are neurons?
100
Three basic functions of the nervous system
What is sensory(gathers info), integrative(bring together info), and motor(homeostasis)?
100
3 Major parts of the brain
What is the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem?
100
Nerve that controls eye muscles
What is the oculomotor nerve?
100
Reflex arcs pass through the spinal cord
What are spinal reflexes?
200
part of a neuron that is shorter, more numerous, and receives information
What are dendrites
200
The system that controls voluntary motor functions
What is Somatic Nervous System?
200
Part of the brain that controls balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
200
Damage of the facial nerve causing paralysis on one side
What is Bell's Palsy?
200
Membranes located between bone and soft tissue of the nervous system.
What are meninges?
300
Part of neuron that sends information
What is an axon?
300
Type of neurons that relay information
What are interneurons?
300
Part of the brain that regulates visceral functions
What is the brain stem?
300
Main portions of the spinal nerves combine to form complex networks
What are plexuses?
300
Types of memory
What is episodic, procedural, semantic, working?
400
Part of a neuron that contains the nucleus
What is the cell body?
400
Junction between two communicating neurons
What is the synapse?
400
The wrinkles and grooves of the cerebrum.
What are convolutions of the brain? fissures, sulcus, gyrus
400
2 kinds of autonomic nervous system
What is sympathetic and parasympathetic?
400
Part of the nervous system that controls unconscious activities
What is the autonomic nervous system?
500
Two parts that the nervous system is divided into
What is Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System?
500
Types of neurotransmitters
What is acetylcholine, monoamines, serotonin, endorphins?
500
All the lobes of the brain
What is frontal lobe, motor cortex, sensory cortex, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe?
500
Each spinal nerve emerges from
What are roots?
500
Nerve that controls sense of smell
What is the olfactory nerve?