Neurological System Flashcards
Neurologic System
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STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
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The central nervous system (CNS) includes the brain and spinal cord.
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The peripheral nervous system includes all the nerve fibers outside the brain and spinal cord: the 12 pairs of cranial nerves, the 31 pairs of spinal nerves, and all their branches.
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The peripheral nervous system carries sensory (afferent) messages to the CNS from sensory receptors, motor (efferent) messages from the CNS out to muscles and glands, as well as autonomic messages that govern the internal organs and blood vessels.
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THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM {CNS)
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cerebral cortex is the cerebrum’s outer layer of nerve cell bodies, which looks like “gray matter” because it lacks myelin.
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Myelin is the white insulation on the axon that increases the conduction velocity of nerve impulses.
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The cerebral cortex is the center for human’s highest functions, governing thought, memory, reasoning, sensation, and voluntary movement
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The ________ is the center for human’s highest functions, governing thought, memory, reasoning, sensation, and voluntary movement
cerebral cortex
Each hemisphere is divided into four lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital
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The frontal lobe has areas concerned with personality, behavior, emotions, and intellectual function
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The parietal lobe’s postcentral gyrus is the primary center for sensation.
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• The occipital lobe is the primary visual receptor center.
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• The temporal lobe behind the ear has the primary auditory reception center with functions of hearing, taste, and smell.
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Wernicke’s area in the temporal lobe is associated with language comprehension. When damaged in the person’s dominant hemisphere, receptive aphasia results. The person hears sound, but it has no meaning, like hearing a foreign language.
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Wernicke’s area in the temporal lobe is associated with language comprehension and receptive aphasia results.
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receptive aphasia Means that The person hears sound, but it has no meaning, like hearing a foreign language.
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Broca’s area in the frontal lobe mediates motor speech. When injured in the dominant hemisphere, expressive aphasia results; the person cannot talk. The person can understand language and knows what he or she wants to say, but can produce only a garbled sound.
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Broca’s area in the frontal lobe mediates motor speech,and expressive aphasia results; the person cannot talk.
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expressive aphasia means that the person cannot talk. The person can understand language and knows what he or she wants to say, but can produce only a garbled sound.
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The basal ganglia are large bands of gray matter buried deep within the two cerebral hemispheres that form the subcortical associated motor system (the extrapyramidal system). They help to initiate and coordinate movement and control automatic associated movements of the body (e.g., the arm swing alternating with the legs during walking)
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The basal ganglia help to initiate and coordinate movement and control automatic associated movements of the body (e.g., the arm swing alternating with the legs during walking)
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The thalamus is the main relay station where the sensory pathways of the spinal cord, cerebellum, and brainstem form synapses (sites of contact between two neurons) on their way to the cerebral cortex.
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