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Nervous System Quiz 290 (60 MCQs)

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1. When are neuron connections called "synapses" made?
2. The three main parts of the nervous system are the brain, spinal cord, and heart.
3. Surrounds and supports neuron cell bodies
4. The nervous system is the master ..... system of the body
5. The ..... mater is closest to the brain.
6. Name given to the three membranous envelopes-pia mater, arachnoid, and dura mater-that surround the brain and spinal cord
7. Connecting neurons
8. Part of the brain that controls your autonomic actions?
9. The study of the nervous system
10. In the large intestine:
11. What muscle contracts to pull on the your lower arm bones and bend your arm?
12. The CNS is almost all .....
13. Connected to spinal cord, this controls heartbeat, breathing, blood pressure & digestion.
14. The brain is not involved in controlling the emergency actions is called .....
15. Non-neural tissue that forms the supporting elements of the CNS
16. What is a symptom of a stroke?
17. Part of the brainstem between the pons and the spinal cord
18. Name the 3 bones in your ear
19. Each region of this regulates the flow of information between the brain and the rest of the body.
20. This is the centre for intellingence and memory
21. What is our 'blind spot?'
22. Sensory neurons entering the spinal cord
23. Part of the neuron that transmits electrical messages away from the cell body. It is also responsible for transmitting neurotransmitters to the axon terminals
24. This part of the brain controls and regulates visceral functions?
25. Which structural classification of the nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord?
26. What does the fluid in the inner ear do?
27. The junction where two neurons come together is called a
28. Hangs from the anterior floor of the hypothalamus by a slender stalk. Sometimes called the "master" gland of the endocrine system, because it controls the functions of all the other endocrine glands.
29. What does a nerve cell do?
30. Subdivision of the peripheral nervous system that involuntarily regulates the activity of smooth and cardiac muscles and glands:
31. Responsible for processing sound, learning, and understanding language,
32. What do we call masses of myelinated nerve fiber?
33. The organ of the inner ear that functions to transmit sound waves to nerve impulses is:
34. Collections of nerve cell bodies inside the PNS are called:
35. Part of the brain that serves as a switching station for sensory input
36. Which part of the nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord?
37. These are specialized nerve cells that receive and transmit information to other cells, (sensory, integrative, motor)
38. This system is in control during normal circumstances and sleep.
39. Single, long fibers that conducts information away from the cell
40. PET works on the basis of:
41. Which does not show reflexes.
42. The part of the neuron that acts as an insulator is .....
43. Problem solving is controlled by this lobe
44. Processes auditory information, encodes memory, processes emotions and languages
45. An injury to the spinal cord can result in:
46. The order of neurons along which an impulse travels is
47. In its resting state the matrix outside a neuron has an overall ..... charge
48. Spinal cord controls the behavior
49. Tick the part below that is made up of BONE:
50. Cells that connect nerves to blood supply
51. Which neurotransmitter is released by the sympathetic postganglionic nerve?
52. The link between the brain and the peripheral nervous system.
53. A tumor on the temporal lobe would most affect the career of
54. ..... receive impulses and carry them towards the cell body.
55. Produce insulating barrier called myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous system
56. What neural tissue surrounds the entire nerve?
57. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is also called the visceral motor system to distinguish it from the somatic motor system that controls the skeletal muscles.
58. What are the TWO components that make up nervous tissue?
59. What does MRI stand for?
60. Multiple sclerosis involves demyelination of neurons in which anatomic division?
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