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Afferent

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body to brain

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Efferent

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brain to body

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Somatic NS

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controls voluntary movement

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Autonomic NS

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unvoluntary actions, sympathetic branch, parasympathetic branch

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CNS

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central nervous system

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peripheral nervous system

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carries messages to and from the CNS

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spinal cord

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connects brain and peripheral nervous system

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somatic

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nervous system controls voluntary muscles and transmits sensory information to the CNS

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automatic

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nervous system controls involuntary body functions.

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sympathetic

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nervous system arouses the body to expend energy

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parasympathetic

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controls calms body to conserve energy

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thalamus

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It’s known as a relay station of all incoming motor (movement) and sensory information — hearing, taste, sight and touch (but not smell) — from your body to your brain.

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hypothalamus

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life support center of he body, regulates bio chemistry, controls breathing and heart rate, controls the pituitary

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the 4 F

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fight, flight, food, fornication

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hyppocampus

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memories

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Amygdala

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fear, agression

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corpuscolosum

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controlls both sides of the brain

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pituitary gland

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controlls the hormones, endocrine

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pineal gland

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makes you sleep

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medula oldongata

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breathing

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PONS

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dreams, facial expresions

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4 lobes of the cortex

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frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital

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cerebral cortex

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the top 1/4 of an inch of the cerebrum

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Neuron

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defined as a single cell, the building block of the nervous system.

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Soma

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body of the neurone/cell body

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Aendrites

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fiber extensions off the soma that have receptor sites on them

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Receptor sites

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locations along acendrites that recieve incoming neurotransmitters chemical

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Axon

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an extension off the soma that varies in lenght from microscopic to 2-3 feet long. it is down the axon that the electral impulse travels

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Terminal branch

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branching structures at the end of axons that have a bulb on the tip

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Bulb

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they have sacks inside them

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NT

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chemical that leaves the neurons to doc a receptor sites

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myelin sheat

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white fatty substance that encases and insolates axons It allows the optimum transition of the electrical impulse, down the axol

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Nodes of Ranvier

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space between the myelin sheat

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Synapsei

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gaps between neurons

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Actron potential

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Fireing of a neutron

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Reaur Take

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exece neurotransmiter taken back in by the neuron that fire it

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