Neurons
This cell responds to stimuli and transmits signals in the brain.
What are Neurons?
This side is responsible for memory, emotion, and creativity.
What is the right hemisphere?
This part of the nervous system involves the Brain and the Spinal Cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
A type of disease where the function of neurons in the brain or peripheral nervous system worsen or dies. This disease can gradually destroy your nervous system, especially key parts of your brain such as the hippocampus.
What is Neurodegenerative Disorders?
What is Neurogenesis?
These are branch-like structures that projects out from the cell body. Chemicals from other neurons will bind the structures’ receptors and relay the information to the cell body.
What are Dendrites?
This system acts as the ‘Emotional Nervous System’ and it is responsible for managing our emotions, memories, and survival instincts.
What is the Limbic System?
This part of the Nervous System contains all the other nerves in our body.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
This disease is the most common type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behaviour.
What is the Alzheimer’s Disease?
The nerve cells in your body begin to grow axons. Some axons go from the brain/spine to your muscles to help them move, whereas other axons go from your skin/organs to your brain to tell you what you feel.
What is Nerve Formation?
It is an elongated fiber that can vary in size and extend from the cell body. It is responsible for transmitting action potentials away from the cell body to the end of the neuron.
What are Axons?
This lobe processes distance and depth perception, colour determination, object and face recognition, and memory formation.
What is the occipital lobe?
This part of the Nervous System controls your involuntary actions such as your heartbeat, breathing, digestion and sweating.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
This is an inherited brain disorder that causes neurons in specific parts of the brain die, resulting in the impairment of the affected individul’s mental capability and physical control over their movements.
What is Huntington‘s Disease?
The process in which cells take on specific, specialised functions.
These are gaps between the myelin sheath that allows action potentials to bounce from one gap to the other, making it travel faster down the neuron.
What are Nodes of the Ranvier?
This lobe manages your motions, processes sensory information, storing and retrieving memories, and understanding language.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
This part of the Nervous System controls your voluntary actions, such as walking, talking and typing. It uses both motor and sensory neurons.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
A movement disorder caused by the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia migraine. When the dopamine-producing cells die, it leaves the brain without enough chemical messages to signal nerves to trigger movement, leading to slow movement and involuntary actions such as shaking and having tremors.
What is Parkinson‘s Disease?
The brain and body removes this by keeping the useful ones and removing the extra ones to ensure that you can move better, think more clearly, and react faster as you grow.
What is Synaptic Pruning?
This makes up 99% of the total neurons found in the body and it is responsible for controlling your muscles.
What are Motor/Multipolar Neurons?
It is made up of many neurons yet has less myelin present. It helps in information processing, mental processes, and voluntary movement.
What is Grey Matter?
Commonly associated with the phrase; ”Rest and Digest”. This part of the Nervous System helps calm the body after a stressful event by slowing down involuntary actions.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
Despite how there are various causes for neurodegenerative disorders, this is the strongest risk factor for developing neurodegenerative disorders.
What is Aging?
Nerve branches and the axons of neurons are covered by a layer of glial cells. This helps messages to travel faster through nerves and neurons.
What is Myelination/Myelinogenesis?