Can you name the parts of the Nervous Sytem?

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

  1. by runinchamp
  • Created Oct 31, 2010 in Science
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