Nervous systems

Question 1

What is the central nervous system?

Answer 1

The brain and spinal cord process and coordinates responses to sensory stimuli

Question 2

What is the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 2

Is everything outside of the central nervous system and contains muscles, organs and glands.

Question 3

What is sensory stimuli?

Answer 3

An event or object that makes a person react to.

Question 4

What is the spinal cord?

Answer 4

a cable of nerve fibers that is connected from the base of the brain to the the lower back enclosed by bone.

Question 5

what is the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 5

A network of neurons that
carry information between
the CNS, and the organs
and glands, to ensure they
are regulated without
conscious awareness

Question 6

What is the somatic nervous system?

Answer 6

A network of nerves that transfer information from the receptor site to the CNS and carries those messages to the muscles to make voluntary movements.

Question 7

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

Answer 7

apart of the autonomic system that prepares our body for action.

Question 8

What is the parasympathetic nervous system?

Answer 8

apart of the autonomic system that bring our body to homeostasis that calms us after action

Question 9

What is a conscious response?

Answer 9

When the person is aware of what they are doing.

Question 10

What is a unconscious response?

Answer 10

When a person is unawake or unaware that they are responding.

Question 11

What is a neuron?

Answer 11

information messengers

Question 12

What is a sensory neuron?

Answer 12

Transmits sensory info from the body to the brain

Question 13

What is a motor neuron?

Answer 13

Transmits motor info from the brain to the body.

Question 14

What is a interneuron?

Answer 14

Transmits info between the sensory and motor neuron

Question 15

What is a neurotransmitter?

Answer 15

A chemical substance released by the terminal button of neuron, for neural transmission

Question 16

What is excitatory?

Answer 16

increases the likelihood that a neuron will fire an action potential.

Question 17

What is inhibitory?

Answer 17

Decreases the likelihood that a neuron will fire an action potential.

Question 18

What is glutamate?

Answer 18

An excitatory neurotransmitter that helps with learning and memory.

Question 19

What is GABA?

Answer 19

An inhibitory neurotransmitter that is commonly associated with calming feelings of anxiety, stress and fear

Question 20

What is a neuromodulator?

Answer 20

A chemical messenger that enhances signal transmission.

Question 21

What is dopamine?

Answer 21

neuromodulator that is involved with drive and motor movement.

Question 22

What is serotonin?

Answer 22

neuromodulator that is involved in stabilizing moods.

Question 23

What is a neuraltransmission?

Answer 23

the process of communicating between neurons using electochemical energy

Question 24

What is a neuroplasticity?

Answer 24

The brains ability to physically change in response to a experience.

Question 25

What is synaptic plasticity?

Answer 25

The ability of the synaptic connections to change over time in response to a experience.

Question 26

What is long-term potentiation? (LTP)

Answer 26

The increase in synaptic strength through high frequency stimulation of the neural pathway.

Question 27

What is long-term depression? (LTD)

Answer 27

The decrease of the efficiency of synaptic connections

Question 28

What is sprouting?

Answer 28

The creation of new connections between neurons.

Question 29

What is rerouting?

Answer 29

The re-establishing of neural pathways by making alternate pathways.

Question 30

What is pruning?

Answer 30

The removing of old neural pathways that are not adequately activated.

Question 31

What is the enteric nervous system?

Answer 31

apart of the autonomic system that consists of nerve cells that line the gastro tract and controls the digestive system.