Vocabulary

Question 0

Dendrites

Answer 0

short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.

Question 1

Neuron

Answer 1

electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals.

Question 2

Axon

Answer 2

typically conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron’s cell body.

Question 3

Myelin

Answer 3

essential for the proper functioning of the nervous system. Forms around axon and neuron.

Question 4

Refractory Period

Answer 4

recovery phase after orgasm.

Question 5

Synapse

Answer 5

structure that permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell.

Question 6

Reuptake

Answer 6

The reabsorption of a neurotransmitter, by a neuron following impulse transmission across a synapse.

Question 7

Endorphins

Answer 7

thought to act as blockers of the transmission of pain signals and also can produce a euphoric.

Question 8

Agonist

Answer 8

A chemical that binds to a receptor and activates the receptor to produce a biological response.

Question 9

Antagonist

Answer 9

The bad guy

Question 10

Somatic Nervous System

Answer 10

associated with the voluntary control of body movements via skeletal muscles.

Question 11

Automatic nervous system

Answer 11

acts as a control system that functions largely below the level of consciousness to control visceral functions

Question 12

Sympathetic Nervous System

Answer 12

Its general action is to mobilize the body in a fight-or-flight response. It is, however, constantly active at a basic level to maintain homeostasis

Question 13

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Answer 13

responsible for stimulation of “rest-and-digest” or “feed and breed”activities that occur when the body is at rest.