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Biologist who studies the nervous system

Neurobiologist

What does a neurobiologist study

Nervous system

Physician specializes in disorders of the nervous system

Neurologist

Neurologist

Physical that specialized in disorders of the nervous system

What nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord

Central nervous system

The central nervous system contains

The brain and spinal cord

What nervous system has nerves branching from brain and spinal cord

Peripheral

The peripheral nervous system has

Nerves branching from. The brain and the spinal cord

How many pages of spinal nerves are there

31

The brain communicates to most of the body through

Spinal cord

What’s the 3 layered tissue the protects and covers the spinal cord and brain

Meninges

What’s the theee layers of the meninges

Dura Mater,Arachnoid, and Pia Mater

What’s the outside middle and inner layer of the meninges

Dura Mater, Arachnoid Mater, Pia Mater

Clear fluid that cushions the brain

Cerebrospinal

Cells of the brain and spinal cord

Glial cells and Neurons

Parts of a Neuron

Cell Body, Dendrite, Axon

What takes messages away

Axon

Where to neuron cell body’s exist

Brain,Ganglia,Spinal Cord

Mass of cell bodies

Ganglion

A network of interconnected nerve fibers going to or from a region

Plexus

Group of cell bodied in Brain/ spinal cord

Nerve center

Types of neurons

Sensory,motor,interneurons

What neuron picks up message

Sensory

What neuron carries messages

Motor

What does the interneurons do

Process information

Nerve impulse travel

Dendrites to cell body to axon