ACTION POTENTIAL
What is it called when no impulse can travel due to Na and K returning to their resting state?
What is Refractory period?
Which part of the reflex arc detects stimuli?
What is Receptor?
What is the control center of the nervous system called?
What is the Brain?
What is the input of information from sensory receptors called?
What is Sensory Input?
Which disease is categorized by progressive neurodegeneration, causing memory loss?
What is Alzheimers Disease?
What is the minimum potential need for an action potential to happen called?
What is Threshold potential?
Which part of the reflex arc brings sensory information to the Central Nervous System (in the spinal cord)?
What is Sensory (Afferent) Neuron?
What are the branch like structures that receive messages called?
What is Dendrites?
What are chemical messengers between neurons called?
What is Neurotransmitters?
Which disease is categorized by recurrent seizures?
What is Epilepsy?
What is the principle that if depolarization reaches a threshold, an impulse is conducted at maximum strength unless there are materials within the cell or the membrane has been disrupted
What is All or none principle
Which part of the reflex arc takes sensory information and activates effectors to initiate a response to the stimulus?
What is Motor (Efferent) Neuron?
What is the long fiber that transmits signals away from the neurons cell body called?
What is Axon?
Which type of neurons carry sensory information to the Central Nervous System?
What is Afferent Neurons?
Which disease is categorized by degeneration of movement?
What is Parkinson's Disease?
What is it called when Na channels close and K channels open allowing K ions to leave the inside of the membrane, returning it to a negative state
What is Repolarization?
What are the smooth, skeletal, or cardiac muscle glands that create a response called?
What is Effectors?
What is the insulating layer around nerves called?
What is Myelin Sheath?
Which specific part of the system controls voluntary muscle movement?
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
Which disease is characterized by inflammation of the protective membranes in the Central Nervous System?
What is Meningitis?
What is it called when the inside of a neuron is more negatively charged than the outside during the resting membrane potential?
What is Polarized?
What is the point of contact between the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of another called?
What is Synapse?
What are clusters of neuronal cell bodies in the Peripheral Nervous System called?
What is Ganglia?
Which specific part of the nervous system promotes rest and digest activities?
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
Which disease is categorized by damage or dysfunction of peripheral nerves
What is Neuropathy?