Nervous System

Question 1

What makes up the central nervous system?

Answer 1

The brain and spinal cord

Question 2

What makes up the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 2

Everything else

Question 3

Where is the vagus nerve located?

Answer 3

On the other side of the spinal cord down to the stomach.

Question 4

What does the medulla oblongata do?

Answer 4

Controls heart rate, breathing, and swallowing.

Question 5

What does the pons do?

Answer 5

Controls breathing and sleep.

Question 6

How much does the brain weigh?

Answer 6

3 pounds

Question 7

How much energy does the brain use?

Answer 7

25%

Question 8

What does the cerebellum do?

Answer 8

Automatic motor control

Question 9

What does the frontal lobe do?

Answer 9

Planning, personality, decision making, and motor control

Question 10

What does the parietal lobe do?

Answer 10

Senses and spacial awareness

Question 11

What is the Hypothalamus?

Answer 11

The “master gland”

Question 12

What is the path of transmission for sensory neurons?

Answer 12

From the body to the brain.

Question 13

What is the path of transmission for motor neurons?

Answer 13

From the brain to the body.

Question 14

What do illegal drugs manipulate?

Answer 14

The Synaptic Cleft

Question 15

What are the happy brain chemicals?

Answer 15

Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, Endorphins, Norepinephrine

Question 16

What is serotonin?

Answer 16

Mood stabilizer

Question 16

How do you get serotonin?

Answer 16

Sunlight, exercise, meditating, a healthy diet

Question 17

How do you get dopamine?

Answer 17

By trying something new, listening to music, making a small list of tasks and completing them.

Question 18

How do you get Oxytocin?

Answer 18

Spend time with friends, show affection, do something nice for someone else.

Question 19

How do you get Endorphins?

Answer 19

Regular exercise, creating music or art, laughter, yoga and meditation.

Question 20

What is Norepinephrine?

Answer 20

Adrenaline

Question 21

What is dopamine?

Answer 21

Feeling of reward

Question 22

What is Oxytocin?

Answer 22

The love hormone

Question 23

What is Endorphins?

Answer 23

Modulates pain and calms you down.

Question 24

The types of neuro transmitters

Answer 24

Excitatory, Inhibitory, and Modulate

Question 25

When the work is done what happens to the neuro transmitters?

Answer 25

They can dissolve, be removed by a special protein, and be reabsorbed (re-uptake) by the pre-synaptic nerve.

Question 26

What is another word for reabsorbed?

Answer 26

Re-uptake

Question 27

What are some excitatory hormones?

Answer 27

Glutamate, dopamine, norepinephrine

Question 28

What is one inhibitory hormone?

Answer 28

GABA

Question 29

What is one Modulate hormone?

Answer 29

Endorphins

Question 30

What does GABA do?

Answer 30

Slows things down

Question 31

What does glutamate do?

Answer 31

Speeds things up

Question 32

What is MSG?

Answer 32

Mono Sodium Glutamate, seasoning in asian cooking, speed things up and can give people migraines

Question 33

What does the limbic lobe do?

Answer 33

Regulates sleep-wake cycle and body temperature