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What is the Central Nervous System made up of? What is its function?

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Brain and Spinal Cord

Process thoughts, feelings

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What are the two main divisions of the nervous system?

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Central Nervous System

Peripheral Nervous System

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What is the Peripheral Nervous System made up of? What is its function?

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Nerves and neurons in spinal cord and brain

Communicate with eyes, skin, ears, mouth, control muscles and glands

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What are the divisions of the peripheral Nervous system? What are their functions?

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Somatic Nervous System: Sensory and voluntary movements

Autonomic Nervous System:Controls everything the Somatic doesn’t, emotions, stress, health

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What are the divisions of the Autonomic System? What are their functions?

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Sympathetic:Handle stress, fight or flight
Parasympathetic:Restore body to normal function

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The flight or fight response is a part of what branch of the nervous system? What is the purpose of this response?

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Sympathetic

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What is the resting potential of a neuron?

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When neuron is waiting for the next action potential

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What is the refractory period? What occurs during this period?

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Recharging period

Unable to fire

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What are the parts of the neuron? What are the functions of each?

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Dendrite:Receive information from other neuron
Soma:Body of neuron, keeps nucleus and cell healthy
Axon:Make cell longer and carry messages to axon terminal
Axon terminal:Release chemicals to carry message to next dendrite

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What is the point of communication between neurons?

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Synapse

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How do neurons communicate? Which of these is the most common?

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Electrically and chemically

Chemically

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What are hormones? What do they do?

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No idea

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What are the basic types of neurons? What do each of them do?

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Sensory, motor, inter

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What are neurotransmitters?

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Carry messages, each has a distinct shape chemically

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What is action potential?

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Triggered by chemical signals

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What is the limbic system? What makes up the limbic system?

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Amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, thalamus

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What are the functions of the hypothalamus? Where is it located?

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Regulates body temperature, hunger

Below thalamus

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What are the 4 lobes of the brain? What are the primary functions of each?

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Frontal:Judgement, creativity, problem solving, planning
Parietal:High sensory and language function
Occipital:Vision
Temporal: Hearing, memory, meaning of language

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What is the name of the German neurologist that identified an area on there left temporal lobe responsible for the ability to understand spoken language?

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Carl Wernicke

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What is the Broca’s area? What is the wernicke’s area? What is the location of each?

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Muscles involved with speech, left frontal love

Meaning from words, left temporal lobe

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The left hemisphere is known for? The right hemisphere is known for?

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Logic

Imagination

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What is the Amygdala? What does it do? Where is it located?

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Emotions

Back of thalamus

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What is the hippocampus? What does it do? Where is it located?

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Memorizing

Cerebrum, temporal lobe

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What is the pituitary gland? What does it do? Where is it located?

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Secretes hormones, controls other glands

Attached near base of brain

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What are the 3 parts of the brain?

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Cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem

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What does the corpus Callosum do?

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Connects the left and right hemispheres

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What are fissures? What are the types? Where are they?

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Longitudinal:Divides two hemispheres
Transverse:Separates cerebrum from cerebellum
Lateral:Divide temporal from frontal and parietal

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What is the cerebellum? What does it do? Where is it located?

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Controls balance, coordination,

Below back of brain

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