Nervous System

Question 1

Basically made up of Brain, Spinal
Cord, and Nerves

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Nervous System

Question 2

Body’s command center

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Nervous System

Question 3

Works by sending messages, or
electrical signals, between your brain
and all the other parts of your body.

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Nervous System

Question 4

The two divisions of the nervous system

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Central Nervous System & Peripheral Nervous System

Question 5

1. Brain
2. Spiral Cord

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Central Nervous System

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Nerves & other components of the system

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Peripheral Nervous System

Question 7

Controls what you think and feel, how you learn and remember, and the way you move and talk

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Brain

Question 8

Send motor commands from the brain to the body.

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Spinal Cord

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Send sensory information from
body to brain.

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Spinal Cord

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Coordinates reflexes.

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Spinal Cord

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Control the body’s vital functions such as respiration and heart rate.

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Hindbrain (Rhombencephalon)

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The three major parts of the hindbrain (rhombencephalon)

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Medulla, Pons, and Cerebellum.

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regulation functions; breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate.

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Medulla

Question 14

coordinating signals with this area to the rest of the brain.

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Pons

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balance and movement coordination.

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Cerebellum

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Connects the forebrain and
hindbrain.

Part of the Brainstem.

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Midbrain (Mesencephalon)

Question 17

Involved in alertness and the
sleep/awake cycle, motor
activity, and more.

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Midbrain (Mesencephalon)

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Connects the brain and
spinal cord.

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Brainstem

Question 19

Largest and most obvious
part of the brain.

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Forebrain (Prosencephalon)

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Three parts of the forebrain:

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Hypothalamus, Cerebrum, Thalamus

Question 21

involved with sensory and motor information.

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Thalamus

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has major control in the endocrine system.

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Hypothalamus

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functions are done depending on specific
location whether its our speech, thinking and reasoning, sensing emotions.

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Cerebrum

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Our forebrain is divided into two:

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Right & Left hemisphere

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The left and right hemisphere are joined by a bundle of fibers called the ____ that transmits messages from one side to each other.

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Corpus Callosum

Question 26

controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills.

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Right Hemisphere

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controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing.

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Left Hemisphere

Question 28

part of the nervous system that lies outside your brain and spinal cord.

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Peripheral Nervous System

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Involves motor functions of skeletal muscle. Include voluntary actions under conscious control but also somatic reflexes that involve skeletal muscle

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Somatic Nervous System

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There Peripheral Nervous System is divided into two

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Somatic & Autonomic Nervous System

Question 31

About going on in the internal environment in regard to gastrointestinal or excretory or endocrine, or smooth and cardiac muscle and it also includes autonomic reflexes.

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Autonomic Nervous System

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Quick fight or flight response.

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Sympathetic

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What are the two major distinctions of the Autonomic Nervous System

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Sympathetic and Parasympathetic

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can cause your heart to race and breathing rate to increase and some things to not be active, like the digestive system.

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Fight or flight response

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The _____ predominates during quiet, resting conditions.

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Parasympathetic

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nerve cells that send messages all over your body to allow you to do everything from breathing to talking, eating, walking, and thinking.

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Neurons

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the nucleus and most other organelles are here.

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Cell Body

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these branched structures are where signals are received.

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Dendrites

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the fiber where normally a signal will be carried away to some other cell.

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Axon

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the junction area where the neuron will be communicating with another cell.

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Synapse

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Help support, connect, and protect the neurons of the central and peripheral nervous system. Comes from a Greek word that means “glue.”

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Glial

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insulates the axon and transferring of the signals.

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Myelin Sheath

Question 43

Some Glial cells make ____, which goes around the axons of neurons as something called myelin sheath.

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Myelin

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Some Glial cells produce ___.

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Cerebrospinal Fluid

Question 45

protects the brain and essential for homeostasis, as well as many other critical functions.

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Cerebrospinal fluid

Question 46

Signal transferring from one neuron to another is possible because of ____.

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Neurotransmitter

Question 47

When neurotransmitters are released from the synaptic vesicles the neurotransmitters only need to travel a small space between neurons _____.

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Synaptic Cleft