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1
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Sensory system?

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Afferent

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Motor nervous

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Efferent

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3
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What transfers through synapse?

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Chemicals

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Blood brain barrier

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Keeps drugs and toxic compounds out and filters the good stuff back into brain

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Hydrocephalus

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Abnormal accumulation in the ventricles of the brain

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Huntington chorea

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Inherited, progressive loss of control, dementia in adulthood

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Amyotrophic lateral scoliosis

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Fatal, degeneration, effects motor neurons

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Lou Gehrig’s disease

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Muscle weakness atrophy

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9
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Sulcus

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Valleys of cerebral holds

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10
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Neuron

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Basic unit of nervous system also known as nerve cell

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11
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MS

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Neural degenerate, destruction myelin ceath in central nervous system

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12
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Acerbratagraphy

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X-ray of cerebral arteries

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13
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Shingles

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Acute infection, same as chicken pox

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14
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LP lumbar puncture

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Aspirate, cerebral spinal fluid lumbar subaranoid space

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Diencephalon

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Composed of the thalamus and hypothalamus

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16
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How many layers protect membrane

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3 surrounding brain and spinal cord

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17
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What makes up the CNS

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Brain and spinal cord

18
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How many spinal nerves

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31 in human body

19
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What is found in the arachnoid mater

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Cerebral spinal fluid

20
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Mycroglia

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Brain tissue is inflammed and damaged can hunt organisms

21
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SNS

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Responsible for voluntary movement

22
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Occipital lobe

23
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Parietal lobe

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Touch and taste

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Temporal lobe

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Hearing and smell

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Frontal
Voluntary movement
26
Parasympathetic
Rest and digest
27
PNS
Contain dermatons
28
ACE
Acute concussion evaluation
29
Medulla oblongta
Second vertebra
30
Cerabellum
Muscle coordination, posture, and balance
31
Corpus callosum
Connects two hemisphere of cerebrum
32
CVA
Loss of blood flow and oxygen
33
Epilepsy
Electrical to the brain
34
Parkinson’s
Progressive movement and muscle control balance
35
Bell’s palsy
Partial dropping of the facial
36
Dementia
Profound changes in member to think function
37
Quadriplegia
Paralysis to arms, legs and trunk
38
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Auto-immune, acute polyneuritis
39
Myelomeningocele
Condition spinal cord has abnormal opening
40
Axon and neurons
Carries cell away from body

Nervous System (3 decks)

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