Neuroscience Concepts and Terminology

• Any internal or external change that brings about a response 

• response
• trigger
• reaction
• stimulus

• Regulation of life maintaining (balance) conditions, despite changing in the enviroment 

• Equilibrium
• Adaptation
• Stability
• Homeostasis

1. nickname of nerve cells

• synapses
• glial cells
• neurons
• dendrites

1. receive impulses from other neurons and send them to the cell body.

• Axons
• Cell body
• Synapses
• Dendrites

1. carry impulses away from the cell body 

• Synapses
• Neurons
• Dendrites
• Axons

fatty layer around the axon

• dendrite layer
• neuron coating
• axon membrane
• myelin sheath

receive information and send impulses to the brain or spinal cord

• Glial cells
• Motor neurons
• Interneurons
• Sensory neurons

1. help move muscles or glands throughout the body 

• motor nuerons

• sensory nuersons

1. relay impulses to motor neurons 

• sensory neurons
• interneurons
• motor neurons
• glial cells

• chemical in the synapse 

• Neurotransmitters
• Ions
• Enzymes
• Hormones