chapter 6

Question 1

what’s a mechanoreceptor?

Answer 1

detects movement?

Question 2

what’s a baroreceptor?

Answer 2

pressure

Question 3

what does a thermoreceptor detect?

Answer 3

temperature

Question 4

what does a chemoreceptor detect?

Answer 4

chemicals like co2

Question 5

where are electromagnetic receptors found?

Answer 5

eyes

Question 6

what is proprioception?

Answer 6

ability to detect where ur body is in space

Question 7

what lobe is the sensory motor cortex?

Answer 7

parietal

Question 8

what happens to myelin when developing skills?

Answer 8

gets thicker

Question 9

what gives brain color?

Answer 9

myelin (white)

Question 10

what happens neurologically after an injury?

Answer 10

gets blurred

Question 11

how much of the brain is the frontal lobe?

Answer 11

1/3

Question 12

what part of the brain receives nutrients last?

Answer 12

frontalwhat

Question 13

what is housed in the temporal lobe

Answer 13

hippocampus

Question 14

what is the hippocampus responsible for?

Answer 14

long term memory

Question 15

what part of the brain is sensory Motor?

Answer 15

parietal

Question 16

what are the abc’s of the cerebellum?

Answer 16

accuracy balance coordination

Question 17

what is the brains number 1 job?

Answer 17

predict and protect

Question 18

what part of the brain fixed unwanted errors?

Answer 18

cerebellum

Question 19

what are 2 things ur brain needs to stay alive?

Answer 19

fuel and activation

Question 20

what is the spinal cord a continuation of?

Answer 20

medulla oblongata

Question 21

how many pairs of spinal nerve?

Answer 21

31

Question 22

why are there 8 cervical nerves?

Answer 22

first 7 cervical nerves exit the spine cranially to their associated vertebrae, while the 8th cervical nerve exits caudally to C7

Question 23

what plexus is T1 apart of?

Answer 23

brachial

Question 24

is cerebral palsy progressive or non?

Answer 24

non progressive

Question 25

what makes up gray matter?

Answer 25

unmyelinated tissue

Question 26

what makes up white matter?

Answer 26

myelinated tissue

Question 27

how do thoracic nerves differ from cervical or lumbar nerves?

Answer 27

thoracic members directly innervate

Question 28

how many plexuses are there?

Answer 28

3 (cervical, brachial, lumbosacral)

Question 29

what are some of the bony membranous and fluid features that protect the brain from trauma?

Answer 29

the skull, meninges, cerebrospinal fluid

Question 30

what does cerebrospinal fluid do?

Question 31

is an l4 injury upper or lower injury?

Answer 31

lower

Question 32

difference between efferent and afferent?

Answer 32

afferent transmit to brain and efferent is away

Question 33

the spinal cord extends to about what vertebra?

Answer 33

L2

Question 34

how does a motor nerve send impluses?

Answer 34

spinal cord to periphery