Cranial Nerves
This nerve controls muscles in the face and scalp and regulates many glands of the head and neck.
What is the Facial nerve?
Abnormal electrical activity in the brain resulting in seizures.
What is epilepsy?
Controls advanced functions such as reasoning, judgement, problem solving, personality and mood.
What is the frontal lobe.
The Nervous System is divided into 2 main parts.
What are the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems?
These are the three parts of a neuron.
What is the dendrite, cell body, and axon?
This nerve is responsible for the sense of smell.
What is the Olfactory nerve?
Symptoms: severe headache, sensitivity to light, nausea/vomiting, blurred vision, light headedness.
What is a Migraine?
Contains the primary visual cortex.
What is the Occipital lobe?
The 2 mains parts of the central nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
The name and function of the fluid that covers the brain.
What is CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) which provides cushioning/shock absorption?
This nerve provides visual information from the retina.
What is the Optic nerve?
Symptoms: mild to sharp pain radiating from the lower back down to the calf, numbness, tingling, muscle weakness
What is Sciatica?
Regulates motivational sensations such as hunger, anger, fatigue (largely through control of the endocrine system)
What is the hypothalmus?
The peripheral nervous system is divided into these 2 divisions:
What are the somatic and autonomic divisions?
The names of the 3 layers of meninges that cover the brain from the durable outermost to innermost.
What are the dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater.
This nerve below the tongue helps control it's movement.
What is the Hypoglossal nerve?
Symptoms: sleepiness throughout the day, involuntarily falling asleep during normal activities
What is Narcolepsy?
Controls balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
The division of the PNS that is responsible for voluntary movement and reflexes.
What is the Somatic Nervous system?
The 3 main divisions of the brain.
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem?
This nerve provides sensory input from the mouth and throat.
What is the Glossopharyngeal nerve.
A disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin sheaths of nerve fibers – causing problems with impulse transmission and eventual damage to the nerves.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Name the 3 parts of the brainstem
What are the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata?
The division of the PNS that is responsible for regulating involuntary and unconscious body functions.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
Name the 4 lobes of the cerebrum.
What are the frontal, temporal, occipital, and parietal.
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