Dho Nervous System

What does the axon carry?

• Impulses away from the cell body

• Impulses to the cell body

• chemicals

• messages

How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

(a)  

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

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

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

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

Neurological disorder marked by reoccurrence of episodes or a sensory disturbance.

• Epilepsy

• Concussion

• Traumatic Brain Injury

• ALS