What is a Neuron?

• A cell

• A transmitter to transmit messages to cells

• A receiver for information

• a gland

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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?

What is the inner most layer of the brain?

• Arachnoid

• Dura mater

• Pia matr

• Cerebellum

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 does the cerebrospinal fluid transport?

• messages

• nutrients

• minerals

• waste products

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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

Excess hormone production that causes moon face and buffalo hump

• Huntington's disease

• GBS

• Cushing's syndrome

• TBI