Nervous System 1

Question 1

What makes up the central nervous system?

Answer 1

Brain and spinal cord

Question 2

What makes up the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 2

Cranial and spinal nerves

Question 3

What are the two functional classes of the nervous system?

Answer 3

Somatic and Autonomic

Question 4

What are the functional classes of the somatic nervous system?

Answer 4

Motor and sensory

Question 5

The autonomic nervous system is split into 2 systems. What are they?

Answer 5

Sympathetic and parasympathetic

Question 6

What is a neurone?

Answer 6

A nerve cell. A basic functional unit of the nervous system.

Question 7

What is the role of a neurone?

Answer 7

Relay information between different regions of the CNS, between the CNS & PNS and between the CNS and other body systems.

Question 8

What is the basic structure of a neurone?

Answer 8

Dendrite, body and axon

Question 9

What is a nerve?

Answer 9

A bundle of axons carrying information from the CNS to the rest of the body or from the rest of the body to the CNS.

Question 10

Where to nerves enter and leave the CNS?

Answer 10

Brain and the spinal cord

Question 11

How many pairs of cranial nerves are there?

Answer 11

There are 12 pairs

Question 12

Where do the cranial nerves arise from?

Answer 12

The brain

Question 13

How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

Answer 13

There are 31 pairs

Question 14

Where do the spinal nerves arise from?

Answer 14

The spine

Question 15

What parts of the brain make up the diencephalon?

Answer 15

The thalamus and hypothalamus

Question 16

What parts make up the brain stem?

Answer 16

Midbrain, pons and medulla

Question 17

The cerebellum lies:

Answer 17

Posterior to the brainstem

Question 18

What is the role of the cerebellum?

Answer 18

Maintenance of balance, posture and muscle tone and coordinates movement.

Question 19

Give examples of vital centres controlled by the brain stem

Answer 19

Cardiovascular and respiratory centres

Question 20

What is the role of the thalamus?

Answer 20

Acts as a relay station for sensory information

Question 21

What is the role of the hypothalamus?

Answer 21

Hormone secretion, integrating centre for ANS, thermoregulation, hunger and satiety centres, thirst centre.

Question 22

The cerebrum is made up of 2 hemispheres called:

Answer 22

Sulci and Gyri

Question 23

Name the four lobes of the cerebrum

Answer 23

Frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital

Question 24

What cortex does the frontal lobe contain?

Answer 24

Motor context

Question 25

What does the frontal lobe control?

Answer 25

Intellect, planning, mood, social judgement etc.

Question 26

What cortex does the parietal lobe have?

Answer 26

Somatosensory cortex

Question 27

What does the parietal lobe control?

Answer 27

General sensation and taste

Question 28

What cortex does the temporal lobe contain?

Answer 28

Auditory cortex.

Question 29

What cortex does the occipital lobe contain?

Answer 29

Visual cortex

Question 30

What forms of protection are there for the brain?

Answer 30

The skull and the meninges

Question 31

What are the 3 membranes of the meninges?

Answer 31

Dura mater, arachnoid mater and pia mater.

Question 32

What is the space between the pia mater and arachnoid mater called?

Answer 32

The subarachnoid space

Question 33

What is the space between the pia mater and arachnoid mater called? The subarachnoid space

Answer 33

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

Question 34

What are ventricles in the brain and what do they do?

Answer 34

Ventricles are interconnecting chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid.

Question 35

What are the functions of cerebrospinal fluid?

Answer 35

CSF protects brain and spinal cord from trauma. CSF supplies nutrients to nervous system tissue. CSF removes waste products from cerebral metabolism.

Question 36

How does blood supply get to the brain?

Answer 36

Internal carotid artery and vertebral artery

Question 37

Name the cranial nerves

Answer 37

Olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, hypoglossal.

Question 38

Name the spinal nerves and how many of each there are.

Answer 38

8 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral and 1 coccygeal.