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13 Cards in this Set
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Cell underlies the activity of the entire nervous system is the _____.
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Neuron
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There are approximately _____ neurons in the brain of an average human being.
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100 Billion
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Neurons typically have __________.
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One Axon & Many Detrites
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Neurons whose primary purspose is to carry messages from the spinal cord or the brain to the muscles & glands are called __________.
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Efferent Neurons
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A young man reads in a letter that he has just won $1,000 in a state-wide lottery & he literally jumos for joy which neurons are sending messages from his brain to his legs ordering them to jump?
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Motor Neurons
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Chemicals released by the synaptic vesicles that travel accross the synaptic space & attract adjacent neurons are called ______.
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Neurotransmitters
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An elderly person with Parkinsons disease is most likely to have a problem witj which of the following Neurotransmitters?
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Dopamine
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The central nervous system consist of the ________.
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Brain and Spinal Cord
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Thalamus relays & translates in coming messages from each of the physical senses except ______.
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Smell
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A man can renember everything from before his car accident, but can't remember what happened 5 minutes ago. He damaged the _____ part of his brain.
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Hippocampus
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The ______ lobe accounts for about one half the volume of the human brain.
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Frontal
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The notion that human language is controlled primarily by the left cerebral cortex was first proposed by ______.
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Paul Brockae
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Which of the following would provide the best nap of physical structures in the brain of living human beings?
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MRI
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