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What consists of the central nervous system?

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Brain and spinal cord

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What consists of the peripheral nervous system?

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Cranial nerves and ganglia
Spinal nerves and dorsal root ganglia
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nerves
Enteric nervous system

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What does the diencephalon consist of?

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Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Epithalamus

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What does the brain stem consist of?

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Midbrain, Pons, Medulla

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What are the layer of the meninges?

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Dura, Arachnoid, Pia

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What is the Choroid Plexus?

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is a vascular tuff that produces CSF in the ventricles

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What is the axial plane?

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horizontal cross section of the brain

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What is the transverse plane?

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horizontal cross section of the brain

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What is the coronal plane?

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Tiara cross section of the brain

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What is the sagittal plane?

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Bow and arrow cross section of the brain

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What cells make up the nervous system?

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neurons (nerve cells) and glial cells (support cells)

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What does a neuron consist of?

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axon, dendrites, and cell bodies

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What does a dendrite do?

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receive input into the cell

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What do axons do?

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carry outputs

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What is a synapses?

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The place where communication between neurons occur (axons and dendrites)

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What are axons covered with?

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myelin sheaths

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What do oligodendrocytes do?

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form myelin sheaths

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What are Schwann cells?

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they are cells that form myelin sheaths in the PNS

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What are neurotransmitters and their function?

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they are chemical released at the presynaptic terminal and they either excite or inhibit action potentials at the post synaptic clef

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What is glutamate?

What does it affect?

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an excitatory neurotransmitter; the entire CNS

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What is GABA?

What does it affect?

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An inhibitory neurotransmitter; the entire CNS

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What is acetylcholine?

What does it affect?

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a neurotransmitter; autonomic nervous system (causing parasympathetic effects)

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What is norepinephrine?

What does it affect?

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a neurotransmitter; sympathetic ganglia, causing sympathetic effects

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What is dopamine?

What does it affect?

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What is serotonin? | What does it affect?
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What is white matter?
areas of the CNS covered mainly with myelinated axons
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What is gray matter?
Areas made mainly of cell bodies
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What are clusters of gray matter called?
nuclei
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What are some examples of nuclei?
basal ganglia, thalamus, and cranial nerve nuclei
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What is a commissure?
a white matter pathway that connects structures on the left and right sides of the CNS
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What are ganglia in the PNS?
clusters of cell bodies
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What is afferent?
carrying a signal toward a structure
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What is efferent?
carrying a signal away from a structure
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How many pair of cranial nerves are there?
12
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How many cervical vertebrae?
7
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How many thoracic vertebrae?
12
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How many lumbar vertebrae?
5
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How many cervical nerve pair?
8
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How many thoracic nerve pair?
12
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How many lumbar nerve pair?
5
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How many sacral nerve pair?
5
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How many coxxix nerve pair?
1
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What is the brachial plexus?
elaborate meshwork of nerves from the cervical and thoracic (arms)
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What is the lumbosacral plexus?
elaborate meshwork of nerves from the lumbar and sacral (legs)
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Brain crevices are called?
sulci
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Brain bumps between sulci are called?
gyri
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What does the Central Sulcus of Rolando separate?
The frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
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What does the Sylvian fissure separate?
The frontal lobe from the temporal lobe
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What does the Parieto-occipital Sulcus separate?
The parietal lobe from the occipital lobe
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What is the corpus callosum?
C-shaped band of white matter connecting both cerebral hemispheres
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What are the three parts of the corpus callosum?
Splenium (Back), Genu (Front), Rostrum (Bottom)
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Where does the primary motor cortex lie?
on the precentral gyrus of the frontal lobe
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What does the precentral gyrus control?
controls movement on the opposite part of the body
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Where does the primary somatosensory cortex lie?
on the post central gyrus of the parietal lobe
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What is pyramidal decussation?
The crossing over of fibers in the corticospinal tract
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What does contralateral and ipsilateral mean?
contralateral (opposite side) ipsilateral (same side)
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What are upper motor neurons?
motor neurons from the cortex that project to the spinal cord or brainstem
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What are lower motor neurons?
located in the anterior horns of the central gray matter or brainstem motor nuclei; they project out of the CNS via the anterior spine roots or cranial nerves to finally reach muscle cells in the periphery
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What is somatic sensation?
conscious perceptions of touch, pain, temperature, vibration, and propriception
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What is proprioception?
limb or joint sense
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Somatic sensory posterior column pathways convey?
convey proprioception, vibration sense, and fine, discriminative touch
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Somatic sensory anterior column pathways convey?
convey pain, temperature sense, and crude touch
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What does the thalamus do?
relay center
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CN I
Olfactory (smell)
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CN II
Optic (Vision)
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CN III
Ocular motor (pupil constriction, eye movements up)
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CN IV
Trochlear (superior oblique muscle move downward and inward)
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CN V
Trigeminal (Facial sensation)
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CN VI
Abducens (lateral rectus; eye abduction)
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CN VII
Facial (muscles of facial expression)
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CN VIII
Vestibulocochlear; Acoustic (Hearing)
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CN IX
Glossopharyngeal (Taste on posterior tongue; stylopharyngeus muscle)
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CN X
Vagus (swallowing, voice box, parasympathetic)
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CN XI
Spinal accessory (Sternomastoid muscle; upper trapezius muscle)
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CN XII
Hypoglossal (Intrinsic muscles of the tongue)
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What is the limbic system?
regulation of emotions, memory, appetitive drives, and autonomic and neuroendocrine control

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