Vocab
This includes the brain, spinal cord, and a complex network of nerves.
What is the Nervous System
These are the two components that make up the CNS.
What is the Brain and Spinal Cord.
This part of our brain is responsible for the fight or flight response in humans.
This is responsible for involuntary actions.
This system takes in informations through the outside world.
State where bodies systems are balanced and working correctly.
What is homeostasis.
Name the two divisions of the Nervous System
What is CNS & PNS
The nerves to and from your arm muscles are part of the _
PNS
This coordinates voluntary muscle movements and to maintain posture, balance and equilibrium.
This connects the PNS to the CNS
Nerve cells are called _______
Nuerons
The sense of touch is part of which division of the nervous system
What is PNS
Name the two divisions of the PNS
What is the Somatic and Autonomic nervous systems.
This part of the brain controls thinking/speech/problem solving?
What is the Cerebrum
The full name of the CNS
Central nervous system.
This word describes the process of analyzing information from our senses.
What is perception.
This division of nervous systems is responsible for resting/calming the nervous system.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system.
What is the prefrontal cortex.
Memories are stored here.
What is the hippocampus.
The full name of the PNS
Peripheral Nervous system.
This word describes the nervous system when the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system are imbalanced.
Dysregulated
This is responsible for the conscious control of skeletal muscles
What is Somatic Nervous system
What is the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous systems.
This is responsible for emotional responses.
What is the amygdala.
This is the most specific division that controls muscular systems.
What is the Somatic system.