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Nervous System Quiz 194 (60 MCQs)

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1. This is another name for the parasympathetic division of the nervous system
2. The Cerebellum is located towards the ..... of the brain.
3. The nervous system that is under your conscious control is called the ..... nervous system.
4. We know the basic five senses-taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell. Do animals have other senses?
5. A cerebrovascular accident can be caused by an obstruction of blood flow to the brain or a hemorrhage.
6. Which of the following is not an involuntary action?
7. Name the part of the body that begins at the medula of the brain and extends all along the back
8. This region of your brain coordinates voluntary muscle activity and maintains balance and muscle tone:
9. Which is the middle meninge?
10. The suffix-esthesia means
11. A patient has a TBI (traumatic brain injury) with left hemiplegia. You note that on the right side of his body he has an atrophied trapezius and sternocleidomastoid muscle. What is the nerve involvement on the right side?
12. Light entering the eye is focused behind the retina instead of directly on it, objects close to the eye look blurry
13. Which organ looks like a long tree trunk where INFORMATION TRAVELS from the brain to the nerves and back (from the nerves to the brain)?
14. Every living organism is made up of one or more cells
15. -inflammation of the brain causing headaches, seizures, comas, and death
16. The cerebrum is the brain region that has two hemispheres and stores memories
17. True or False:Neurons use passive transport of ions to create a gradient
18. The ..... interprets sense, controls movement and carries out complex mental processes
19. Delivers visual information from the retina to the visual centers in the occipital lobe
20. The second part of an action potential that creates movement of the membrane potential in a negative direction is
21. Patients with Alzheimer's disease may exhibit an apraxic gait pattern, which is characterized by:
22. In a cross section of the spinal cord, the peripheral white portion consists of ..... forming nerve tracts, and the central gray portion consists of .....
23. Definition:a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.
24. What cell is found in the CNS and connects neurons to blood vessels?
25. Which lobe allows us to use words to express what we are thinking or how we are feeling?
26. Meaning spinal cord
27. Interprets sensations such as:touch, pressure, pain; understanding of speech, use words to express thoughts and feelings
28. The parts of this system are organized into the somatic system and autonomic systems
29. Which of the following forms of motor output is under voluntary control?
30. Your lungs help you breathe. How does the nervous system work with your lungs when you're doing exercise?
31. Learning and Memory
32. What is the Control Center of your Nervous System?
33. Albert Einstein's brain was slightly larger than the average males.
34. A group of nervous system disorders resultingfrom brain damage before or during birth, or inearly infancy
35. A nerve impulse is received first by what part of the neuron?
36. What are 3 of the major functions of the brain (in order)
37. The ..... fills the posterior part of the eye.
38. What is the role of the inferior rectus muscle?
39. The two major ions that move back and forth across the cell membrane when the neuron is stimulated are
40. During repolarization, the sodium channels are closed. How does this affect a neuron?
41. A mechanoreceptor is sensitive to
42. What is the part of the brain in charge of the feelings and memories?
43. What is the receptive part of a neuron?
44. Disorder with the loss of control of the body with degrees of consciousness, seizures.
45. Good circulation
46. When neurotransmitters cross a synapse and bind to the receptors on a neuron .....
47. A motor neuron sends impulses
48. Structural nervous system subdivision that consists of the brain and spinal cord
49. What is the most common type of structural neuron?
50. The division of the PNS that controls voluntary muscle movements
51. What is the order of the three stages of how the nervous system operates?
52. What does the axon do?
53. The part of the brain responsible for the co-ordination of the actions of the muscles is .....
54. Memory neurotransmitter
55. What are the four functions of the Skeletal System?
56. What do we call a change in your surroundings that causes you to react?
57. The CNS includes the brain.
58. The rapid skipping of an action potential from node to node on myelinated neurons.
59. Nerve impulses are transmitted from ..... to ..... motor neuron to sensory neuron
60. What is bacterial meningitis?
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