The Nervous System
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| Stimulus | any change or signal in the enviroment that makes the organism react
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| Response | what your body does in reaction to a stimulus
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| Neuron | cells that carry info through the nervous system
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| Nerve impulse | a message that a neuron carries
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| Dendrite | carries impusle toward cell body
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| Axon | carries impulse away from cell body
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| Nerve | a bundle of nerve fibers
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| Sensory Neuron | picks up stimuli from internal/external environment and converts each stimulus into a nerve impulse
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| Interneuron | a neuron that carries nerve impulses from from neuron to another
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| Motor Neuron | Sends an impulse to a muscle and the muscle contracks in response
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| Synaspe | a tiny space between each axon and the next structure
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| Centeral Nervous System | constists of brain and spinal cord
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| Peripheral Nervous System | consists of all nerves located out side the nervous system
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| Brain | located in the skull, part of the centeral nervous system that controls most functions in the body
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| Spinal Cord | a thick column of nerve tissue that links the brain to most of the nerves in the peripheral nervous system
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| Cerebrum | interprets inout from the senses, controls the movement of the skeletel muscles, carries out complex mental processes like: remembering, making good judgments
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| Cerebellum | cordinates the actions of your muscles and helps you keep your balance
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| Brain stem | lies between the cerebellum and the spinal cord, controls your body involuntary actions (those that occur automatically)
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| Somatic Nervous System | controls voluntary actions (tying shoelaces, picking up a fork)
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| Autonomatic Nervous System | controls involuntary actions (adjusting blood vessels)
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| Reflex | automatic response that occurs very rapidly and without conscious control (blinking)
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| Concussion | bruise-like injury to the brain
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