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The central nervous system includes ____ and ____
The peripheral nervous system includes ____, ____, and ____
The basic functions of the nervous system include ____, ____, and ____
The higher functions of the nervous system include ____, ____, and ____
____ are efferent neurons of the PNS that go from the spinal cord to a muscle to control it
Lower motor neurons (LMN) are ____
Lower motor neuron cell bodies are located in ____ and terminate in ____
Abnormalities of LMN's can cause ____
LMN signs ____ ____ ____ ____
Atrophy is ____
Fasciculations are ____
Hypotonia is ____
Hyporeflexia is ____
Pacinian corpuscles detect ____ and ____
Merkel cells detect ____ and ____
Ruffini endings detect ____
Meissener's Corpuscles detect ____
Free nerve endings detect ____
Nociceptors and thermoceptors travel in ____ neurons Position/Vibration/Touch travel in ____ neurons
The muscle stretch reflex causes a muscle to ____
The two steps to a reflex include the ____ and ____
Steps to muscle stretch reflex (knee jerk) ____ ____ ____
Gray matter is mostly ____
White matter is mostly ____
In the spinal cord, ____ matter is on the inside and ____ matter is on the outside
In the brain, ____ matter is on the inside and ____ matter is on the outside
The function of upper motor neurons (UMN's) is to ____
Upper motor neurons are found in ____ and synapse on ____
____ is when UMN's of the cerebral cortex synapse on LMN's in the spinal cord
The corticospinal tract is ____
The corticobulbar tract is when ____
____ is when UMN's of the cerebral cortex synapse on the brainstem
Upper motor neuron signs ____ ____ ____ ____
Hyperreflexia is ____
Clonus is ____
Hypertonia is ____
Extensor plantar response is ____
The four lobes of the cerebral cortex ____ ____ ____ ____
The functions of the frontal lobe: ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
The functions of the parietal lobe: ____ ____
The functions of the occipital lobe: ____
The functions of the temporal lobe: ____ ____ ____ ____
Contralateral control is that ____
____ is that the left brain controls the right side of the body and right brain controls the left side of the body
The dominant brain hemisphere for most people is the ____ hemisphere
Left hemisphere is involved in ____, ____, and ____
The right hemisphere is involved in ____, ____, ____, and ____
Since brain structures build on top of eachother as we evolve , inside the brain contains ____
The forebrain becomes the ____
The midbrain becomes ____
The hindbrain becomes the ____, ____, and ____
The cerebellum functions: ____ ____ ____ ____
The brainstem includes the ____, ____, ____, and ____
The reticular formation is ____
Functions of reticular formation: ____ ____ ____ ____
Function of pons: ____
Function of medulla oblongata: ____
The ____ contains the corticospinal tract
____ connects the two cerebral hemispheres
Basal ganglia has an important role in ____, ____, and ____