The Nervous System

What function does a Neuron serve in the nervous system?

• Transmitting signals between different parts of the body

• Producing hormones

• Filtering blood

• Storing information

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What is the largest part of the brain?

• Brain stem

• Cerebellum

• Cerebrum

• Dura mater

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?

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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

Symptoms include: Tremor and Shuffling gait

• Parkinson's Disease

• Cushing's syndrome

• Polio

• Aphasia

FIGHT OR FLIGHT:

• decreases heart rate

• increase heart rate

• reverses symptoms

• makes you fly

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Symptoms include: Double vision, Balance problems, caused by immune system eating away at protective nerve covering

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Concussion

• Meningitis

• Encephalitis

Spinal cord injury symptoms include:

• Inability to move

• Progressive memory loss

• Respiratory distress

• Convulsions

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