Nervous System vocab

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**Neurons**
**transmits messages to and from the brain and spinal cord**
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**The nucleus**
**regulates the production of proteins in the cell.**
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**Dendrites**
**are branched structures that extend from the cell body in most neurons; they receive information from other neurons.**
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Axons
**transmit impulses toward another neuron, muscle cell or gland.** 
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**Cerebrum**
**the center of consciousness, thought, learning and memory.**
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**Frontal Lobe**
**Voluntary movements, logic and language.**
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Parietal Lobe
**Body position and Sensations**
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**Occipital Lobe**
**Visual processing**
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**Temporal Lobe**
**Emotions and senses**
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**Cerebellum**
**Muscle memory and movement**
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Brain stem
**controls vital functions**
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**Medulla oblongata**
**transmits impulses between brain and spinal cord**
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**Pon**
 **bridge that connects the cerebral cortex to cerebrum; is like Medulla**
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**Midbrain**
**Relays information to cerebrum; controls body movement and position**
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**Thalamus**
**information relay station**
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**Hypothalamus**
**regulates body temperature, controls appetite and controls sections of the pituitary gland.**
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**Pituitary gland**
**controls hormones**
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**Autonomic**
 **consists of a network of nerves divided into two smaller networks**
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Reflex
**sensory neuron makes contact with a connecting neuron that contacts a motor neuron and your muscle responds by jerking away**
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**Somatic**
**consists of sensory neurons that relay messages**

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