chapter 6 Flashcards
what’s a mechanoreceptor?
detects movement?
what’s a baroreceptor?
pressure
what does a thermoreceptor detect?
temperature
what does a chemoreceptor detect?
chemicals like co2
where are electromagnetic receptors found?
eyes
what is proprioception?
ability to detect where ur body is in space
what lobe is the sensory motor cortex?
parietal
what happens to myelin when developing skills?
gets thicker
what gives brain color?
myelin (white)
what happens neurologically after an injury?
gets blurred
how much of the brain is the frontal lobe?
1/3
what part of the brain receives nutrients last?
frontalwhat
what is housed in the temporal lobe
hippocampus
what is the hippocampus responsible for?
long term memory
what part of the brain is sensory Motor?
parietal
what are the abc’s of the cerebellum?
accuracy balance coordination
what is the brains number 1 job?
predict and protect
what part of the brain fixed unwanted errors?
cerebellum
what are 2 things ur brain needs to stay alive?
fuel and activation
what is the spinal cord a continuation of?
medulla oblongata
how many pairs of spinal nerve?
31
why are there 8 cervical nerves?
first 7 cervical nerves exit the spine cranially to their associated vertebrae, while the 8th cervical nerve exits caudally to C7
what plexus is T1 apart of?
brachial
is cerebral palsy progressive or non?
non progressive
what makes up gray matter?
unmyelinated tissue
what makes up white matter?
myelinated tissue
how do thoracic nerves differ from cervical or lumbar nerves?
thoracic members directly innervate
how many plexuses are there?
3 (cervical, brachial, lumbosacral)
what are some of the bony membranous and fluid features that protect the brain from trauma?
the skull, meninges, cerebrospinal fluid
what does cerebrospinal fluid do?
is an l4 injury upper or lower injury?
lower
difference between efferent and afferent?
afferent transmit to brain
and efferent is away
the spinal cord extends to about what vertebra?
L2
how does a motor nerve send impluses?
spinal cord to periphery
