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1
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neurotransmitter lacking in patients with Parkinson’s disease

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Dopamine

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2
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skin innervated by cutaneous ranches of single spinal nerves

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Dermatomes

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3
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Fluid that fills the ventricles

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CSF (cerebral spinal Fluid)

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4
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Warns of actual or impeding tissue damage

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Pain

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5
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respond to stimuli arising in internal viscera and blood vessels

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interoceptors

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6
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Period of sleep when dreams occur

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REM

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7
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result of sodium flowing into the cell

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depolarization

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8
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Fibers that connect hemispheres with lower brain or spinal cord

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Projection

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9
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Most abundant versatile and highly branched glial cell

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astrocyte

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10
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Contain motor fibers from ventral horn motor neurons

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ventral roots

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11
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seizures in which victim losses consciouness

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Tonic-clonic

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12
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Transection in cervical region

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quadriplegia

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13
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fight-or-flight responses

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sympathetic

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14
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composed of the brain and spinal cord

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CNS

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15
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Reflexes we are born with

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Babinskis

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16
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Produces cerebral spinal fluid

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Choroid plexus

17
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Multiple sclerosis results in destruction of this in the CNS

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Myelin sheaths

18
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Neuron that contains three or more processes

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Multipolar

19
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Neuroglial cell that lines the central nervous system and spinal column

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Ependymal

20
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Horns that recieve somatic and visceral sensory input

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Dorsal

21
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this period enforces one-way transmission of nerve impulses

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absolute refractory period

22
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the awareness of changes in the internal and external environment

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sensation

23
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fibers that release neurotransmitter norepinephrine

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adrenegic

24
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Part of neuron that takes information TO the cell body

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Dendrite

25
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this mechanism stabilizes the resting membrane

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somatosensory

26
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myelin sheath gaps between adjacent schwann cells

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nodes of ranvier

27
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in the brain, it is the outermost layer of the gray matter

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cortex

28
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outermost layer of meninges

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Dura

29
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Cause of neurotransmitter release at the axon terminal

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calcium

30
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receptors sensitive to pain-causing stimuli

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nocicepotors

31
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branching network of intersecting nerves

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plexus

32
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chemical destroyed in narcoleptic patients

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orexins

33
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effector organs include smooth muscle, glands and cardiac muscle

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ANS (autonomic nervous system)

34
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Junction between two neurons

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synapse

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