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| support cells to the neurons that make up the majority of the brain tissue |
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| Name the four types of glial cells |
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| astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, schwann cells, microglia |
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| glial cells responsible for supplying nutrients and for scarring damaged areas. |
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| produce myelin in the CNS |
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| produce myelin in the PNS |
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| (Phagocytes) clean up dead tissue |
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| Name the 4 basic neuron types |
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| bipolar, unipolar, multipolar, and pyrimidal |
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| Where are neurochemicals manufactured in the neuron? |
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| How are neurochemicals transported? |
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| via axon to axon terminals |
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| What are the 2 transport methods for neurochemicals? |
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| anterograde and retrograde |
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| transport of a neurochemical from soma to terminal. |
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| transport of a neurochemical from the terminal to the soma. |
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| discharge of a neurochemical from the bouton into the synaptic cleft stimulating the receptor neuron. |
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| small space between the bouton of the axon & receptor sites on the dendrites of the next bouton. |
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| name the 3 types of information passed between synapse |
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| excitatory, inhibitory, and regulatory |
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| Name the three types of fiber tracts |
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| commissural fiber tracts, association fiber tracts, and projection fiber tracts |
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| connects the cortical areas within a hemisphere |
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| connect thalamus to cortex, cortex to bulbar region and cortex to the red nucleus. |
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| name the three projection fiber tracts |
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| Thalamocortical, corticobulbar, corticorubral |
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| name 4 ways the glial cells control the internal environment of the CNS |
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| shuttle nutritive molecules from blood to neurons, remove waste, maintain electrochemical surroundings of neuron, guide developing neurons to correct locations |
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| simple cuboidal epithelium tightly packed that lines the vetricles and central canal of the spinal cord. |
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| special ependymal cells that attaches appendages to the blood vessels and acts as a transport system between blood and ventricles. |
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| immune cells for the brain, help clear away & clean up dead & dying cells and cell debris, trigger astrocytes or additional cells of the immune system to respond to injury site. |
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| hierarchy of motor system (DAB) |
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| The lower motor neruon level, the vestibular-reticular level, the extrapyramidal system, the upper motor neuron level, the cerebellar level, the conceptual-programming level |
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| motor speech system organization (Benarroch et al) |
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| the final common pathway, the direct activation pathway, the indirect activation pathway, the control circuits, the conceptual-programming level |
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| what are the levels of the sensory system? |
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| peripheral organs; afferrent neuronal fibers; spinal cord; afferrent pathways up spinal cord and brain stem; portions of thalamus; pathway from thalamus to cortex; sensory cortex in temporal, parietal and occipital lobes |
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| converting energy (electrical or chemical) into receptor current |
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| name 4 types of transducers |
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| sound, light, chemical, thermal, and mechanical |
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| visceral, touch, pressure, temperature, pain, proprioception, and special senses. |
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| Name the five special senses |
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| sight, hearing, taste, smell, and equilibrium. |
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