Sensory System & Motor System (A+ Guaranteed) 2024.

Executive Functions correct answers thinking, planning, and problem solving, last to develop during brain maturity Neuro plasticity correct answers - the adaptability and flexibility of the brain to reorganize its neural connections to change its physical structure based on experience within certain limits Paresis correct answers muscle weakness Paralysis correct answers loss of voluntary movement Neuroscience correct answers is the study of the nervous system and how neurons that comprise the nervous system are organized and collectively contribute to function and/or create movement Central nervous system (CNS) correct answers cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem& spinal cord. Diencephalon all thalamic structures & BG Peripheral nervous system (PNS) correct answers somatic (spinal nerves) and cranial nerves Autonomic nervous system (ANS) correct answers parasympathetic & sympathetic Sensory input correct answers collects sensory (stimuli) from both outside and inside the body Integration correct answers processes and interprets the stimuli and makes decisions on what to do at each moment Motor output correct answers responds to the stimuli by activating muscles and glands White matter correct answers Mostly axons Myelin sheaths Bundles of axons that connect different regions of the CNS are TRACTS There are no TRACTS in PNS Gray Matter correct answers Unmyelinated Cell bodies, dendrites, axon terminals Ascending tracts correct answers carry sensory information from cord to the brain Descending tracts correct answers carry efferent (motor) signals from brain to cord Cerebral Cortex correct answers Thick blanket/Outer surface: Series of elevated ridges or gyri separated by shallow depressions called sulci, or deeper grooves called fissures Fissures in the cerebellum are called Foli