PRE-TEST I.

NAME: _____________________________________ DATE: _________________

Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System


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_____________ 1. A division of efferent pathway in the Peripheral Nervous System
where it is responsible for visceral organs. It is an involuntary system.
_____________ 2. A type of Autonomic Nervous System activated during stress.
_____________ 3. Functional Unit of the Brain cell
_____________ 4. It receives impulse
_____________ 5. A neuroglia that produces myelin sheath responsible for the fluidity of
the impulse
_____________ 6. It carries impulse away from the neuron to other neuron or end
organs
_____________ 7. A neuroglia responsible for blood-brain barrier
_____________ 8. Structural and functional junction between two neurons
_____________ 9. A type of neurotransmitter that cause increase of sodium permeability
_____________ 10. Part of the brain responsible for judgment, thinking, memory and
behavior
_____________ 11. Specific part of the brain that is responsible for expression or speech
_____________ 12. Part of the brain that is responsible for the coordination of
movements
_____________ 13. Part of the brain responsible for RR, BP and HR
_____________ 14. Part of the brain responsible for sense of smell
_____________ 15. A spinal nerves responsible for respiration






Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.


CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
NEURON DENDRITES ASTROCYTES MICROGLIA
AXON OLIGODENDROCYTES SYNAPSE
DEPOLARIZATION EXCITATORY BASAL GANGLIA
BROCAS AREA HYPOTHALAMUS THALAMUS FRONTAL LOB
CERVICAL PLEXUS BRAIN STEM BRACHIAL PLEXUS