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56 Cards in this Set
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What is the controlling and communicating system of the body, which sends electrical signals?
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Nervous system
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What moniters changes in and out of the body?
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Sensory input
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What processes information, and determines the apporpriate response?
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Integration
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What responds to change/ info from the sensory division?
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Motor Output
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What is the integration command center of the body?
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CNS
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What is the thing that goes between the CNS and the rest of the body?
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PNS
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What are the two divisions of the PNS?
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Motor, sensory
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What is the efferent?
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Motor division
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What is the afferent?
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sensory division
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What are the two divisions of the motor division?
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Somatic NS, autonomic NS
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What is the part of the NS that controls voluntary mvmt/control (skeletal musc)?
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Somatic NS
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What is the part of the NS that is in control of involuntary mvmt/control (visceral motor sys)?
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Autonomic NS
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What are the two divisions of the Autonomic NS?
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Sympathetic, Parasympathetic
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Sympathetic or parasympathetic: What controls the "fight or flight" reaction?
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sympathetic
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Sympathetic or parasympathetic: What is stress induced?
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Sympathetic
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Sympathetic or parasympathetic: What is associated with excitement, exercise, emergency and embarrassment?
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Sympathetic
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Sympathetic or parasympathetic: what is associated with "resting and digesting"?
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parasympathetic
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Sympathetic or parasympathetic: What is rest-induced?
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parasympathetic
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Sympathetic or parasympathetic: What is associated with digestion, diuresis?
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parasympathetic
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What is "nerve glue," which supports, insulates, and protects nerves of CNS?
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Neuroglia
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What makes up half of nerve tissue?
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Neuroglia
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What controls the chem. environment of nerve cells, protects nerves from toxins in blood?
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Astrocytes
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What surrounds neuron cellb odies with ganglia?
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Satellite cells
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What controls the chemical envirentment of the cell?
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Satellite cells
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What processes information from the motor cortex and sensory receptors?
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cerebellum
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What provides precise timing/coordination for smooth movements with skeletal muscle?
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cerebellum
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What is vital for involuntary functions?
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brain stem
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What are the three main parts of the brain stem?
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midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata
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What is the large descending motor tracts to spinal cord?
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cerebral penducle
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What are the fiber tracts connecting the midbrain to the cerebellum?
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cerebral penducle
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What is the part of the midbrain for visual reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What contains the auditory reflex?
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corpora quadrigemina
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What relays information from the cerebrum to the cerebellum?
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Pons
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What is the reflex center for respiratory rhythm?
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Pons
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What is the autonomic center to regulate blood pressure and resp. rhythm, coughing/ sneezing/ vomiting/ hiccupping/ swallowing?
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medulla oblongata
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What is the inter brain called?
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Dienchephalon
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What sits atop the brain stem and is encased by the cerebrum?
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Dienchephalon
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What are the four parts of the dienchephalon?
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Thalamus, hypothalamus, pineal gland, choroids plexus?
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What is the relay station for sensory impulses?
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Thalamus
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What mediates sensation and motor activities and helps process memory?
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thalamus
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What is the autonomic control center?
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hypothalamus
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What is the emotional response/behavior center?
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hypothalamus
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What regulates hunger, water balance, thirs, sleep-wake cycles, hormone secretion, etc.?
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hypothalamus
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What controls the sleep-wake cycle, mood?
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pineal gland
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What secretes cerebropsinal fluid?
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choroids plexus
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What is the superior portion of the brain?
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cerebral hempisheres
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What are the elevated ridges of tissue?
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gyri
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What are the grooves in the cerebral hemispheres?
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fissures
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What are the three kinds of functional areas in the cerebral hemispheres?
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motor (vol. mvmt)sensory (awareness of sensation), association (integration of info)
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