Nervous System Basics

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Nervous System

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The body's command system; communicates information throughout the body and controls the body's response to stimuli.

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Stimulus

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Any change or signal in the internal or external environment that can make an organism react.

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Neuron

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Cells that carry information through your nervous system.

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Receptor

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Location where a stimulus is picked up.

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Sensory Neuron

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Type of neuron that picks up stimuli from the internal or external environment through sensory organs.

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Interneuron

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Type of neuron that interprets a nerve impulse and creates a response for it. (brain & spinal cord)

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Motor Neuron

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Type of neuron that sends out impulses to the muscles resulting in a response to a stimuli.

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Nerve Impulse

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Message that a neuron carries.

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Synapse

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Space that separates the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of the neighboring neuron.

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Spinal Cord

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Part of the nervous system that connects the brain with the rest of the nervous system.