Nervous System Basics
The two main divisions that make up the human nervous system.
What is the central and peripheral nervous system?
The main role of the spinal cord in the nervous system.
What is transmitting information between the brain and body?
The lobe responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
The electrical signal that travels along a neuron.
What is an action potential?
A common symptom of Parkinson’s disease.
What is tremors or muscle rigidity?
The part of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
A reflex involving only one synapse between sensory and motor neurons.
What is a monosynaptic reflex?
The lobe linked to decision-making and planning.
What is the frontal lobe?
The process by which neurotransmitters cross the synaptic gap.
What is synaptic transmission?
The main cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
What is the buildup of amyloid plaques.
The two branches of the peripheral nervous system.
What are the somatic and autonomic nervous systems?
A reflex that involves multiple synapses and interneurons.
What is a polysynaptic reflex?
Two brain regions involved in explicit memory storage.
What are the hippocampus and neo-cortex?
One excitatory and one inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What are glutamate and GABA?
The neurotransmitter most affected in Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
The branch that controls voluntary movement.
What is the somatic nervous system?
Why spinal reflexes are important for survival.
What is they allow rapid, automatic responses to danger?
The areas involved in language processing.
What are Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, and Geschwind’s territory?
The neurotransmitter linked to muscle movement.
What is acetylcholine?
The branch that regulates involuntary functions like heart rate and digestion.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The key difference between monosynaptic and polysynaptic reflexes.
What is the number of synapses involved?
How brain functions can be both localised and distributed.
What is some functions occur in specific areas, others across multiple regions?
The neurotransmitter most affected in Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
How neurotransmitter interference impacts brain function.
What is the disruption communication between neurons, causing cognitive and motor issues?