Neuro Flashcards

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Central nervous system (CNS)

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Directs mental and basic life processes

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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Carries info to and from the central nervous system

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Spinal cord

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Sends info to and from the brain and PNS and controls reflexes

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Brain

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Directes mental processes and maintains basic life functions

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Somatic PNS

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Voluntary movement

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Visceral PNS

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Glands internal organs blood vessels

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Somatic afferment fibers

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To spinal cord-sensory

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Somatic efferent fibers

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From spinal cord-motor

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Arouses body to respond to a threat

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Dorsal

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Also the structure or pathway in which the message moves. Associated with sensory and afferent. More easily described as body to brain or messages from the body to brain

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Ventral

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Structure in which the messages moves. Associated with motor and efferent.

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PET

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Thermal, emits positrons that show activity of brain. 2D, function is the electronically activity of the brain

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MRI

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Big tune and a double magnet that produces images of tissues of the brain. Magnetic, no radiation. 3D. Structure of Brain

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fMRI

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Tracks and measures the blood follow to different parts of the brain.3D. Both, structure and function.

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CT

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Multiple computer and X-ray images from multiple angles that show a 2D version of the structure of brain using radiation

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EEG

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Place a weird thingy on patients head, 2D, shows function of brain