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| The master controlling and communication system of the body |
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| monitoring stimuli occurring inside and outside the body |
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| Interpreting of sensory input |
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| response to stimuli by activating effector organs |
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Brain and Spinal cord
Integration and command center |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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paired spinal and cranial nerves
carries messages to and from the spinal cord and brain |
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| THREE PRIMARY BRAIN VESICLES |
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| Prosencephalon, Mesencephalon, Rhombencephalon |
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| What type of neuron is mostly found in special sensory organs |
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| Based on the structual classes of neurons, which type of neuron is most abundant in the body? Where are they found? |
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| Multipolar. Found mainly in the CNS |
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| This type of neuron is found mainly in the PNS. Only common in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord |
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| What are the 2 functional divisions of the PNS |
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| Sensory (afferent) and Motor (efferent) |
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| what are the two main parts of the motor division of the PNS |
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| Somatic N.S and Autonomic N.S |
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| consciuos control of skeletal muscles |
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| regulates smooth and cardiac muscles and glands |
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| What are the two main divisions of the ANS |
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| sympathetic and parasympathetic |
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| What are the two principle cell types of the nervous system? |
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| neurons and supporting cells |
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| Most abundant glial cells |
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| phagocytes that monitor the health of neurons |
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| line the central cavities of the brain and spinal column |
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| The types of neuroglial cells that provide myelin in the central nervous system |
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| type of neuroglial cells help regulate the composition of cerebrospinal fluid? |
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| The type of neuroglial cell that aids regeneration by forming a regeneration tube to help reestablish the former connection is the _______________. |
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| divides the hemispheres into 5 lobes |
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| separates the frontal and parietal lobes |
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| separates the parietal and occipital lobes |
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| separates the parietal and temporal lobes |
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| What borders the central sulcus |
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| precentral and procentral |
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| Three basic regions of the cerebral hemispheres |
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| cortex, white matter, basal nuclei |
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| enables sensation, communication, memory, understanding, and vouluntary movements |
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| Cerebral Cortex: Motor Areas |
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| Primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, Broca's area, frontal eye field |
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| controls learned skills, repitious, or patterned motor skills |
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| Where is the premotor cortex located? |
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| anterior to the precentral gyrus |
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| Threes types of functional areas of the Cerebral Cortex |
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| Motor areas, sensory areas, association areas |
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located anterior of the premotor
A motor speech area that directs muscles of the tongue |
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located anterior to the premotor but superior to Broca's area
Controls voluntary eye movement |
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| Sensory Areas of the Cerebral Cortex |
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| primary somatosensory, somatosensory association cortex, visual and auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and vestibular cortices |
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Prefrontal cortex
Language areas
General (common) interpretation area
Visceral association area |
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| Cerebral White Matter is responsible for communication between |
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| the cerebral cortex and lower CNS center, and areas of the cerebrum |
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| Types of Cerebral White Matter |
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| Commissures, Association fibers, projection fibers |
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| Masses of grey matter found deep within the cortical white matter |
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| Three parts of Corpus Striatum |
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| Caudate nucleus, Lentiform nucleus, fibers of internal capsule |
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| Controls automatic behaviors necessary for survival |
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| Consists of three regions – midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata |
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| Controls autonomic behaviors necessary for survival |
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| Most Inferior part of the brain stem |
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