Nervous System

What is a Neuron?

• A cell

• A transmitter to transmit messages to cells

• A receiver for information

• a gland

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What does the axon carry?

• Impulses away from the cell body

• Impulses to the cell body

• chemicals

• messages

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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

What do the motor neurons do?

• carry messages from the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands

• carry impulses from skin and sends to organs the to spinal cord and brain

• carry impulses from sensory neurons to motor neurons

• store messages

What part of the brain is responsible for conscious thought, judgement, memory, reasoning and will power?

• Cerebellum

• Hypothalamus

• Cerebrum

• Thalamus

FIGHT OR FLIGHT:

• decreases heart rate

• increase heart rate

• reverses symptoms

• makes you fly

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Spinal cord injury symptoms include:

• Inability to move

• Progressive memory loss

• Respiratory distress

• Convulsions

What does the brain stem do?

• provides the pathway for ascending and descending tracts

• pathway for only descending tracts

• provides structure

• pathway only for ascending tracts

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The nervous system is made up of all the following EXCEPT

• Brain

• Nerves

• Muscles

• Spinal Cord

The nervous system is broken into 2 major parts, the

• Central Nervous System

• Pedestrian Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Whole Nervous System