Parts of the Nervous System
This is the type of cell that makes up the nervous system.
What is a neuron.
This lobe of the brain is associated with planning, speaking, and problem solving.
What is the frontal lobe?
Made up of the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the "Central Nervous System"?
Pain, temperature, and pressure can be felt by this sense.
What is the sense of touch?
Mental health, memory, paralysis, and blindness.
What are common problems of the nervous system?
These are the three main parts that make up a nerve cell.
What are dendrites, cell body, and axon.
Associated with movement and balance.
What is the parietal lobe?
Sensory neurons and motor neurons that transmit information between the CNS and the rest of the body.
What is the "Peripheral Nervous System"?
Cells located in the upper nose that respond to chemical molecules in the air.
What are "Olfactory Cells"?
Mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities.
What is Anxiety Disorders?
A part of the neuron that receives signals from other neurons and sends impulses to the body.
What is a dendrite?
Associated with vision and sight.
What is the occipital lobe?
The somatic system and the autonomic system
What are the two parts that make up the PNS?
Areas of specialized receptors in the tongue that can detect four tastes.
What are the taste buds?
Common mental illness that is characterized by feelings of sadness, loss of interest in enjoyable activities, and changes in mood or behavior.
What is Depression?
This is the part of the neuron that houses the nucleus and other cellular organelles.
What is the cell body?
Associated with hearing and memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
Controls movement and touch in the PNS.
What is the somatic nervous system?
Sound waves enter the ear and cause this thin membrane to vibrate.
What is the eardrum?
Often a long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccuring thoughts, and behaviors that they feel the urge to repeat over and over.
What is "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder"?
The part of the neuron that carry nerve impulses fro the cell to other neurons and muscles.
What is an axon?
The largest of the three main parts of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
Controls your heartbeat and digestion.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The colored part of the eye that's made of the the muscles that control how much light enters the pupil.
What is the "iris"?
One of the most common childhood disorders with symptoms of difficulty focusing, paying attention, and controlling behavior and hyperactivity.
What is ADHD?