Nervous System

Question 1

Motor Neurons

Answer 1

Efferent

Question 2

Sensory Neurons

Answer 2

Afferent

Question 3

Interneurons

Answer 3

neuron between neuron

Question 4

What three locations are upper motor neurons located?

Answer 4

1. Cerebral Cortex
2. Brainstem
3. Cerebellum

Question 5

Where are Lower motor neurons located?

Answer 5

The anterior horn of the spinal cord

Question 6

What is the function of Axons in sensory neurons?

Answer 6

To send signals away from the cell body

Question 7

The portion that covers the axon?

Answer 7

Myelin

Question 8

____ conducts efferent impulses from spinal cord

Answer 8

Motor endplates

Question 9

In sensory neurons, ___ are branches that receive impulses.

Answer 9

Dendrites

Question 10

The small gap between an axon, dendrite, interneuron, and other structures.

Answer 10

Synapse

Question 11

The chemical tat is released at a synapse that activates or inhibits that structure on the other side of the synapse

Answer 11

Neurotransmitter

Question 12

Unmyelinated cell bodies and bodies

Answer 12

grey matter

Question 13

myelinated cell bodies and nerve dibers

Answer 13

white matter

Question 14

The type of protection in the CNS?

Answer 14

Meninges – 1. Dura mater
2. arachnoid
3. pia matter

Question 15

What are the 3 main parts of the brain?

Answer 15

1. cerebrum
2. brainstem
3. cerebellum

Question 16

What connects the right and left hemisphere of the brain?

Answer 16

corpus callosum

Question 17

Frontal lobe functions?

Answer 17

movement, speech, personality

Question 18

Parietal lobe functions?

Answer 18

sensory

Question 19

occipital function?

Answer 19

vison

Question 20

temporal lobe function?

Answer 20

behavior, hearing, language

Question 21

This area deep in the brain is responsible for relaying sensations and pain perception

Answer 21

Thalamus

Question 22

The hypothalamus controls … ?

Answer 22

Hormones and behavior

Question 23

The basal ganglia is responsible for?

Answer 23

coordinating movements

Question 24

Name the three parts in the brainstem

Answer 24

1. midbrain
2. pons
3. medulla oblongata
   It is also responsible for connecting the brain to the spinal cord

Question 25

Visual reflexes is found?

Answer 25

Midbrain

Question 26

The pons functions

Answer 26

transverse nerve fibers connecting nuclei to cerebellum

Question 27

The medulla oblongata

Answer 27

regulates breathing, blood pressure, heart rate

Question 28

The spinal cord begins and ends at?

Answer 28

Starts at Medulla and ENDS at L2. It then becomes the conus medullaris

Question 29

Upper plexus:

Answer 29

nerves that control the upper limbs, like arms

Question 30

Lower plexus:

Answer 30

Lower extremities, like the legs.

Question 31

Deramatomes:

Answer 31

Areas of skin where there are sensory fibers that cordinate with the plexus and peripheral nerve

Question 32

All muscles innervated from a specific spinal cord level or specific peripheral nerve

Answer 32

Myotome

Question 33

How does congential defects effect the Centeral Nervous System?

Answer 33

It can create spina bifida and cerebral palsy

Question 34

This pathology affects spinal cord by causing an individual to become paraplegic or tetraplegic.

Answer 34

Spinal Cord Injury (complete or incomplete)