Nervous System Quiz 224 (60 MCQs)

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1. The term effector is used when referring to
2. What is Alzheimer's Disease?
3. Which of the following is the most common structure of a neuron?
4. Ability to respond to simuli
5. Seen in Parkinson's disease
6. Controls voluntary actions-part of the PNS
7. Which layer of the eye contains the iris and the pupil?
8. What does Norepinephrine do?
9. Which part of the brain is responsible for controlling movement initiation during exercise?
10. What happens when your spinal cord is broken?
11. Place the steps of a nerve impulse in the correct order.
12. A nerve impulse is an ..... across neurons.
13. Which surgical treatment relieves pressure on a nerve root?
14. Someone with a brain injury might experience:
15. The ..... is the long extension of neuron that allows for sending of action potential
16. If your voluntary and involuntary muscles both work, but they do not work together, what part of your brain might be damaged?
17. Which of the following is NOT a tissue layer of the eye?
18. Can you push my hand
19. Carries messages between the peripheral nervous system and the brain:
20. Purely motor nerve is
21. Sensory fibers carrying impulses from visceral organs are called ..... sensory fibers.
22. Which of these is important in forming and retaining memories and is seahorse-shaped?
23. ..... are events or conditions that cause your body to react.
24. What system is made up of the brain and spinal cord?
25. ....carry messages from the brain to other parts of the body.
26. Which mixed nerve has sensory fibers associated with the pharynx, tonsils, and carotid arteries, and motor fibers associated with swallowing?
27. Person is asked to protrude and retract tongue.
28. Which function of the nervous system is responsible for receiving information about the external environment?
29. When an action potential travels down an axon, the next segment of the neuron becomes ....., while the previous segment is returning to .....
30. How is information carried from the CNS to a muscle or gland?
31. What action describes a response to internal stimuli?
32. Nerves that control heartbeat and digestion are ..... nerves.
33. A complex network of nerve fibers in the brainstem that arouses the cerebrum
34. Preganglionic sympathetic axons pass through which of the following structures?
35. Ascending tracts
36. Which part of the brain is responsible for regulating balance and coordination?
37. The place where the action potential is produced is
38. What part of the brain controls basic body behaviors?
39. Which of the following can be observed in a human whose cerebellum is damaged?
40. The nervous system is our body's .....
41. The types of neurons that transmit information from your body and senses to your brain.
42. This is when the nervous system activates effector organs (muscles and glands) to carry out a response.
43. ..... Neurons pick up information and takes it to the brain
44. Which drug class interacts with many medications requiring a 14 day washout period before trying another treatment.
45. Combining form that means brain
46. Function of the nervous system
47. A kid being afraid of the doctors office.
48. What type of synapse dominates the nervous system?
49. The sympathetic division
50. Tick all the parts of the peripheral nervous system:
51. Specializes in administering anesthesia but is not a physician.
52. A disease associated with impaired color vision in humans:
53. Which lobe of the brain is responsible for emotion, future planning, judgement, and muscle movements?
54. The parts of the nervous system that process the information and decides what to do:
55. Internal stimuli is information collected from .....
56. What type of neuroglia help dispose of bacteria?
57. Oligodendrocytes are usually found in the myelin sheath of neurons in the PNS.
58. The basic functional unit of the nervous system is:
59. Chemicals that carry messages between neurons are celled
60. A region of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information