MAKING YOU NERVOUS
This is made up of nerves that connect to voluntary skeletal muscles and sensory receptors. (It lets you feel the world and move around in it)
What is the SOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
The individual cells in the nervous system that receive, integrate, and transmit information.
What is a NEURON?
A Greek word that means BODY.
What is SOMA?
The way hormones travel through the body to get to their target cells.
What is the BLOODSTREAM?
Part of the hindbrain includes a BRIDGE of
fibers which connect the brainstem to the
cerebellum. It also contains cells involved
with sleep and arousal.
What is the PONS?
The Central Nervous System is comprised of these two components.
What are the BRAIN and the SPINAL CORD?
This part of the neuron contains the genetic material of the cell.
What is the NUCLEUS?
The brain's natural "maintenance" process that eliminates weak or unused connections (synapses) to make neural communication faster and more efficient
What is SYNAPTIC PRUNING?
These are the chemical messengers are sent out by the glands of the endocrine system.
What are HORMONES?
The lobe of your brain giving you the ability to understand this question and solve the answer to it.
What is the FRONTAL LOBE?
This is your body's HIGH-SPEED command center.
What is the NERVOUS SYSTEM?
This insulates the axon to protect the neuron and accelerate impulses.
What is the MYELIN SHEATH?
The name of the junction where information is transmitted from one neuron to another.
What is a SYNAPSE?
This gland sits in your neck and controls how fast your body burns energy (metabolism).
What is the THYROID?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for pleasure and motivation, motor control and movement. It is largely responsible for repeat behaviours seen in addictions.
What is DOPAMINE?
The Nervous System is made of the Brain, Spinal Cord, and a vast network of these.
What are NERVES?
This transmits electrical & chemical signals to other neuron and effector cells.
What is the AXON TERMINAL?
The chemicals that transmit information across the synaptic gap to the next neuron.
What are NEUROTRANSMITTERS?
These are two functions that hormones regulate or have influence on.
What are (GROWTH, SLEEP, MOOD, PUBERTY, METABOLISM, HOMEOSTASIS)
This "little brain" is critical to the coordination of movement and a sense of equilibrium (or balance).
What is the CEREBELLUM?
The Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems are the two main components of this.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
This conducts electrical impulses along the neuron cell.
What is the AXON?
This subdivision of the nervous system activates processes that allow the body to save and store energy (slowing heart rate, reducing blood pressure, promoting digestion).
What is the PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
These glands sit on your kidneys and release adrenaline when you’re stressed or scared.
What are ADRENAL GLANDS?
A loosely connected network of structures which acts as your emotional and behavioral control center and is one of the oldest parts of the human brain. Responsible for your survival instincts, long-term memory, and how you feel.
What is the LIMBIC SYSTEM?