Comes to the brain from receptors all over your body--conscious and subconscious
What is Sensory input?
100
Stands for the abbreviation EEG and is a record of the electrical activity of the brain
What is electroencephalogram?
100
CT is its abbreviation
What is computed tomography?
100
The components of the Central Nervous System
What are the brain and spinal cord?
200
The brain stimulates skeletal muscles to contract, production of sweat, saliva, and digestive enzymes
What is motor output?
200
A chronic brain disorder due to paroxysmal excessive neuronal discharges
What is epilepsy?
200
The combined Elements mean "pertaining to internal organs"
What is visceral?
200
These nerve cells consist of a cell body and two types of extensions
What are neurons?
200
The components of the PNS
What are the nerves and ganglia?
300
Occur in your brain and spinal cord to process sensory input, initiate a response, and store the event in memory
What is evaluation and integration?
300
Comes from Latin "to move"
What is motor?
300
Its elements mean "clasp together" and refers to the junction or gap between two nerve cells
What is a synapse?
300
This myelin-covered cellular process or extension carries impulses AWAY from the cell body
What is/are axon(s)?
300
There are 12 pairs of these originating from the brain
What are cranial nerves?
400
Maintained by a series of negative and positive feedback loops (e.g. blood pressure, HR, body temperature, etc.)
What is homeostasis?
400
Pertaining to the nervous system
What is neurologic?
400
A fatty sheath that surrounds axons measuring millimeters to a meter in length
What is myelin?
400
Composed of glial cells and capillary blood vessel walls, it prevents foreign substances, toxins and infections from leaving the bloodstream and affecting brain cells
What is the blood-brain barrier?
400
There are 31 pairs of these originating from the spinal cord
What are spinal nerves?
500
Thinking, feeling, understanding, responding, remembering, and playing jeopardy
What is mental activity?
500
The Elements mean "having the function of" and "feel"
What is sensory?
500
From the Latin term meaning "to bring away from" and refers to nerve impulses conducted away from the brain or spinal cord
What is efferent?
500
Chemical agents that relay messages from one nerve cell to the next
What is/are neurotransmitter(s)?
500
Its two subdivisions operate subconsciously to arouse and/or calm the body