Unit 2 Review

What do endorphins influence?

• Migraines
• Pain/pleasure
• Seizures
• Learning, attention and emotion

Dendrites do what within the nerve?

• Protects the nerve
• Release impulses

• Receives Impulses
• Create nerves

What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?

• Calms the body and conserves energy
• Mobilizes the body and uses energy
• Controls skeletal muscles
• Controls glands and internal organ muscles

Which of the following structures acts as the control center for the entirety of the endocrine system?

• Pituitary gland

• Cerebral cortex

• Hypothalamus

• Adrenal gland

The Central Nervous System includes what? 

• Brain and Spinal Cord
• Muscles
• Eyes

• Corpus Callosum

What is the overall function of the Adrenal Gland?

• Produces hormones that help regulate your metabolism, immune system, blood pressure, response to stress
• Helps manage body temperature, hunger and thirst, and sleep
• regulates blood content and calms body back down after excitement
• Assists in growth and development

What is an example of Sensory Neurons being used?

• Your body digesting food

• Looking around a classroom
• Drinking water because you're thirsty

• Touching a hot surface with your fingertips

Communicate internally within the Central Nervous System and process information between the sensory inputs and motor outputs

• Dual processing

• Interneuron

• Extrinsic motivation

• fMRI

What does the sympathetic nervous system do?

• Arouses the body and uses energy
• Calms the body and conserves energy
• Controls skeletal muscles
• Controls glands and muscles of internal organs

The resting state in the neural impulse process in which the neuron is negatively charged.

• Depolarization
• Action Potential
• Threshold
• Polarization