Nervous System
What are the 2 divisions of the nervous system?
The Central and Peripheral Nervous System
The brain can be divided into 2 ____________.
What are hemispheres
The brain can be divided into ____ lobes.
Four
The 3 types of neurons.
What are sensory, motor and interneurons?
An infection of the meninges that surround the brain caused by bacteria or virus.
What is meningitis?
Name the parts of the Central Nervous System
The brain and spinal cord.
This hemisphere is thought to be the center of logic, math and speech.
What is the Left Hemisphere?
The lobe is responsible for vision and color perception is__________.
What is the occipital lobe?
These help us smell, see, taste and feel.
What are sensory neurons?
Causes one side of the face to be paralyzed but usually resolves in a few weeks to months.
What is Bell's Palsy?
List the parts of the Peripheral Nervous system.
The right hemisphere is the center of _______ & ______.
What is creativity and immagination?
Hearing, learning and feelings are controlled by this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe.
These send messages to our muscles to create movement.
What are motor neurons?
A brain injury cause by a blocked or bleeding blood vessel.
What is a stroke?
The 5 sensory organs.
What are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin?
The brain stem controls this......
What is heart rate, breathing and tempurature.
The frontal lobe is responsible for this.
What is thinking, speaking, memory and movement?
These can be considered "extension cords" that connect neurons and receptors.
What are Interneurons?
A patient has loss of memory and ability to speak after a stroke? What area of the brain is affected?
The Frontal lobe.
Part of the brain that is thought to be the control center of memory. (Patient H.M. had this removed)
What is the hippocampus?
Balance and coordination is controlled here.
What is the cerebellum?
The parietal lobe is responsible for ______ & _______.
What area is language & touch?
A patient has a permanent loss of smell from covid. It has damaged their __________ ________.
What are sensory neurons?
Balance and coordination may be affected after a stroke here.