Brain
What is the largest part of the brain?
What is the cerebrum?
Responsible for sending, receiving, & processing nerve impulses throughout the body.
What is the Nervous System?
What are the branch-like extensions that receive impulses and carry them toward cell body?
What are Dendrites?
Name the five senses.
What are smell, touch, sight, sound, taste?
How many neurons does the human have?
What is Billions?
Approximately, how many pounds does the brain weigh?
What is 3lbs?
The part of the nervous system that connects the brain to the rest of the nervous system.
What is the Spinal Cord?
ANOTHER NAME FOR THE NERVE CELL IS…
What is a Neuron?
Olfactory Receptors are located where?
What is the nose?
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
Aids in cushioning the brain from impacts.
What lobe of the brain controls intelligence, decision making, and reasoning?
What is the frontal lobe?
The two main divisions of the nervous system.
What are the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system?
Carries impulses from the skin, eyes, ears, nose, and taste buds to the brain.
What are Sensory Neurons?
The part of the eye which gets larger or smaller to allow light to pass through (hole).
What is the pupil?
What Chemical signal allows neurologic messages to go from one neuron to another?
What are Neurotransmitters?
This lobe helps you process auditory information and with the encoding of memory.
What is the Temporal lobe?
Part of the brain that controls digestion, heartbeat, respiration, and other involuntary functions.
What is Medulla Oblongata?
An insulating layer, or sheath that forms around nerves, including those in the brain and spinal cord
What are Myelin Sheaths?
What 3 sensations can our skin receptors allow us to feel? (T-P-P)
Temperature, Pressure, and Pain.
A bruise to the brain
What is a Concussion?
Cerebellum
The part of the brain that controls balance and coordination.
Consists of the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
Pathway along which impulses pass from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland. Tells your muscles to move.
What are Motor Neurons?
True or False
As the cornea bends light when it enters the eye, the brain receives images that are upside down, so it turns them right side up when it processes the information.
True
What is another name for the “gap” that’s between each neuron?
What is the Synapse?