Function Junction
To process and interpret sensory input and decide if action is needed.
What is integration?
CNS stands for...
What is the Central Nervous System?
The Spinal Cord is part of this system.
What is the Central Nervous System?
The tough outermost layer of the brain.
Serve as communication lines among sensory organs, the brain and spinal cord, and glands or muscles.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
The CNS includes the brain which has this many chambers.
What is four chambers?
Carry impulses to and from the spinal cord.
What are the spinal nerves?
This part of the brain is easily impaired under influence of certain drugs and alcohol.
Nerve fibers that carry information to the central nervous system.
What is the Sensory Division of the PNS?
CNS develops from this tube.
What is the embryonic neural tube?
This part of the brain attaches to the spinal cord.
What is the brain stem?
The brain is split into the Cerebral hemispheres (cerebrum), Diencephalon, Cerebellum, and this section.
What is the Brain stem?
Involuntarily controls smooth cardiac muscles and is divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
Ventricles are filled with this substance.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
The lowest part of the brain stem that merges with the spinal cord.
What is the medulla oblongata?
Deep grooves that divide the cerebrum into lobes.
What are fissures?
Detect stretch or tension.
What are Proprioceptors?
The ridges on the surface of the brain.
What are gyri?
Spinal nerves are formed by the combination of the ventral and ___ roots of the spinal cord.
What are dorsal roots?
This region of the brain houses the pineal body.
What is the epithalamus?