| Function/Definition | Nervous System Part | Where in the Nervous System |
|---|
| Fluid buildup on the brain due to failure of cerebrospinal fluid drainage | |
| Consists mostly of neuron cell bodies | |
| Heart rate; blood pressure; breathing; swallowing; vomiting; not crocodiles | |
| Pain, Temperature, Meissner corpuscle (touch/texture), Pacinian corpuscle (pressure) | |
| 'Fight or Flight' | |
| Involuntary coordination of body movements; balance; cauliflower-shaped | |
| Gap between adjacent neurons | |
| Inflammation of meninges | |
| Specialized rough ER in neuron | |
| Planning action and movement, abstract thought, emotion and judgment | |
| Collects, integrates, and evaluates smell data | |
| Subdivision that deals with voluntary/conscious control of body | |
| R: charge on membrane returns to normal when K+ moves out of neuron | |
| Failure of cerebrum to form | |
| Result of excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy | |
| Subdivision that deals with involuntary control of body | |
| Junction between two neurons | |
| produces myelin sheath around CNS nerve fibers | |
| Collects, integrates, and evaluates taste data | |
| I: Na+ ions into neuron | |
| Understanding language *similar to another area* | |
| Substance that continues a nerve impulse from an axon to a dendrite | |
| Helps you physically say what you want to say | |
| Grooves in brain | |
| Cytoskeleton, maintains neuron shape | |
| | Function/Definition | Nervous System Part | Where in the Nervous System |
|---|
| Creates new memories; spacial memory, navigation | |
| Lines cavities of brain and spinal cord; circulates cerebrospinal fluid | |
| Relay station for sensory impulses and sends them to correct cortex | |
| Degenerative disorder of the CNS that impairs the sufferer's motor skills, cognitive processes (pill-rolling tremors) | |
| Conducts impulses away from cell body | |
| Digestive organ control, consciousness and sleep cyles | |
| Receives and interprets information from sensory receptors | |
| R: Na+ and K+ change places VIA Sodium-Potassium pumps | |
| Forms myelin sheath in PNS | |
| Neuromuscular disorder in which voluntary muscles are poorly controlled | |
| Naming visual imput and understanding language | |
| 3 connective tissue membranes that cover brain and spinal cord | |
| 'Rest and Digest' | |
| Integrates and evalutates hearing data | |
| Sends impulses to skeletal muscles | |
| Watery cushion to protect brain, in subarachnoid space, ventricles, and central canal of spinal cord | |
| Protects neuron cell bodies | |
| Connects sensory and motor neurons | |
| Conducts impulses toward cell body | |
| P: Impulse moves toward cell body (hopping over myelin in PNS) | |
| Connects the Left and Right hemispheres of Cerebrum | |
| Improper formation of the vertebra, leading to a pinched spinal cord | |
| Breathing Control | |
| Spiderlike phagocyte; disposes of debris | |
| Keeps harmful substances from brain through Blood | |
| | Function/Definition | Nervous System Part | Where in the Nervous System |
|---|
| D: change in polarity of cell membrane | |
| Division that carries info TO body tissues/organs from CNS | |
| Golgi Tendon Organ, Muscle spindle, detecting stretch/tension in muscle | |
| Collects hearing data | |
| Star-shaped; braces neurons and controls chemical environment of brain | |
| Houses pineal body and choroid plexus to make cerebrospinal fluid | |
| Consists of cranial and spinal nerves | |
| Ridges in brain | |
| Division that carries info FROM body sense organs to CNS | |
| Coordinates emotional response to pain and regulates rage and aggresion | |
| Regulates body temp, H2O balance; part of limbic system | |
| Rapid, predicatble and involuntary response to stimuli | |
| Gaps in myelin sheath along an axon | |
| Reflex centers for vision and hearing | |
| Direct route from a sensory to motor neuron via an interneuron | |
| Plans carrying out complex motor sequences | |
| Integrates and evaluates sight data | |
| Collects sight data | |
| Forgetfulness, irritability, difficulty concentrating as aging occurs | |
| Nerve Impulse | |
| Consists of the brain and spinal cord | |
| The emotional brain | |
| Fiber tracts such as Corpus Callosum | |
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Planets from the Sun
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