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1
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Sensory system?

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Afferent

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2
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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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4
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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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5
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Hydrocephalus

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Abnormal accumulation in the ventricles of the brain

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6
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Huntington chorea

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Inherited, progressive loss of control, dementia in adulthood

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7
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Amyotrophic lateral scoliosis

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Fatal, degeneration, effects motor neurons

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8
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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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15
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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

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Vision

23
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Parietal lobe

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Touch and taste

24
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Temporal lobe

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Hearing and smell

25
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Frontal

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Voluntary movement

26
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Parasympathetic

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Rest and digest

27
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PNS

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Contain dermatons

28
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ACE

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Acute concussion evaluation

29
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Medulla oblongta

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Second vertebra

30
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Cerabellum

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Muscle coordination, posture, and balance

31
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Corpus callosum

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Connects two hemisphere of cerebrum

32
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CVA

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Loss of blood flow and oxygen

33
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Epilepsy

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Electrical to the brain

34
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Parkinson’s

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Progressive movement and muscle control balance

35
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Bell’s palsy

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Partial dropping of the facial

36
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Dementia

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Profound changes in member to think function

37
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Quadriplegia

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Paralysis to arms, legs and trunk

38
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Guillain-Barré syndrome

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Auto-immune, acute polyneuritis

39
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Myelomeningocele

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Condition spinal cord has abnormal opening

40
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Axon and neurons

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Carries cell away from body

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