Branches
The central nervous system is made of these organs
brain and spinal cord
This lobe is known as the vision lobe.
What is the occipital?
This lobe functions in hearing.
What is the temporal?
Charge inside of a neuron when it is at rest.
Negative
Part of the neuron that receives signals from the environment.
Dendrites
What structure functions like a highway and transmits nerve impulses from the body to the brain and from the brain to the body?
The spinal cord
What does the Somatic division of the nervous system control?
Voluntary movement of the body
These are ridges, while grooves are these.
What are gyri and sulci?
Parts of the brain that hold CSF.
Ventricles
Ion that enters a neuron to cause depolarization
Sodium
Type of neuron that brings information into the PNS.
Sensory Neuron
These are the three layers of the meninges.
What are the dura mater, arachnoid mater and pia mater?
The peripheral nervous system consists of these structures.
What is the spinal and cranial nerves?
These are the three parts to the brain stem.
What are the midbrain, pons, and the medulla oblongata ?
This gland hangs from the hypothalamus and responsible for growth.
What is the pituitary gland?
Repolarization
Type of neuron found in the brain and spinal cord.
Interneuron
The total number of cranial nerves.
12
The opposite of the 'fight or flight' response, this division of the nervous system brings the body back into homeostasis.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Melatonin - Controls sleep wake cycle
Damage to this area may result in a loss of muscle coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
Transport protein that resets the neuron back to resting potential after hyperpolarization
Sodium-Potassium Pump
Space between the myelin sheath where ion channels open and close as an action potential passes through the neuron.
Nodes of Ranvier
Glial cell that provides metabolic support for neurons in the CNS
Astrocytes
The division of your peripheral nervous system that is made up of the nerves that control involuntary body responses and functions.
Autonomic nervous sysytem
This part of the brain stem controls heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, swallowing and vomiting.
What is the medulla oblongata?
Having a stroke in this area may lead to a person being unable to speak.
What is the Broca's area?
Process used to secrete neurotransmitters into the synapse
Exocytosis
Glial cell that secretes the myelin sheath around the axon in the PNS.
Schwann Cell
The cranial nerve responsible for smell.
What is cranial nerve I-Olfactory?