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The central nervous system consists of the…

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Brain and spinal cord

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The two major anatomical subdivisions of the nervous system are the…

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Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system

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The primary functions of the nervous system include…

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  1. Providing sensation of the internal and external environment
  2. Integrating sensory information
  3. Regulating and controlling peripheral structures and systems
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Neurons are responsible for…

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Information transfer and processing in the nervous system

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The region of a neuron with voltage gated sodium channels is the…

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Axon

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Neurons are classified on the basis of their structure as…

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Anaxonic, unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar

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Neurons are classified on the basis of their function as…

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Motor, sensory, and autonomic

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Sensory neurons are responsible for carrying impulses…

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To the central nervous system

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Efferent pathways consist of axons that carry impulses…

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Away from the central nervous system

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The two major cell types in neural tissue…

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Neurons and neuroglia

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The types of glial cells in the central nervous system are…

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Astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia, and ependymal cells

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The neuroglia that play a role in structural organization by tying clusters of axons together are the…

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Oligodendrocytes

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Depolarization of the membrane will shift the membrane potential toward…

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0 mV

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The resting membrane potential of a typical neuron is…

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-70 mV

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If resting membrane potential is -70 mV and the threshold is -60 mV, a membrane potential of -62 mV will…

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Not produce an action potential

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An action potential is triggered when…

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Local current reaches a voltage that opens voltage gated Na+ channels in the axon hillock

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If resting membrane potential is -70 mV, a hyper polarized membrane is…

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-80 mV

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A node along the axon represents an area where there is…

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An absence of myelin

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The larger the diameter of the axon, the…

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Faster an action potential will be conducted

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The two most important factors that determine the rate of action potential propagation are the…

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Presence or absence of a myelin sheath and the diameter of the axon

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The reasons that active neurons need ATP is to support the…

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  1. Synthesis, release, and recycling of neurotransmitter molecules
  2. Recovery from action potentials
  3. Movement of materials to and from the soma via axoplasmic flow
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At an electrical synapse, the presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes are locked together at…

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Gap junctions

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Chemical synapses differ from electric synapses, because chemical synapses…

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Involve a neurotransmitter

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The effect of a neurotransmitter on the postsynaptic membrane depends on the…

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Properties of the receptor

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Exocytosis and the release of acetylcholine into the synaptic cleft is triggered by…

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Calcium ions flooding into the axoplasm

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The normal stimulus for neurotransmitter release is the depolarization of the synaptic terminal by the…

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Arrival of an action potential

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Compounds that alter presynaptic or postsynaptic function, thereby affecting information processing, are…

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Neuromodulators

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Compounds that have an indirect effect on membrane potential work through intermediaries known as…

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Second messengers

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An excitatory postsynaptic potential is…

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A depolarization produced by the arrival of a neurotransmitter

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An inhibitory postsynaptic potential is a…

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Graded hyperpolarization of the postsynaptic membrane

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Graded potentials that develop in the postsynaptic membrane in response to a neurotransmitter are…

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Postsynaptic potentials

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The addition of stimuli occurring in rapid succession is…

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Temporal summation

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The anatomical division of the nervous system responsible for integrating, processing, and coordinating sensory information is the…

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Central nervous system

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Interneurons are responsible for…

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Analysis of sensory inputs and coordination of motor inputs

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A long cytoplasmic process capable of propagating an action potential is the…

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Axon

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The type of cells that surround the nerve cell bodies on peripheral ganglia are…

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Satellite cells

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Schwann cells are glial cells responsible for…

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Producing a myelin layer around peripheral axons

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When a barrier prevents the movement of opposite charges toward one another, an…

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Potential difference may exist

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The membranous wrapping of electrical insulation, called myelin, around an axon is responsible for…

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Increasing the speed at which an action potential travels along an axon

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The simplest form of information processing in the nervous system is…

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The integration of stimuli at the level of the individual cell

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During the relative refractory period, a larger than normal depolarizing stimulus can…

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Initiate a second action potential

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Saltatory propagation conducts impulses along an axon…

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Five to seven times faster than contiguous propagation

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In type C fibers, action potentials are conducted at speeds of approximately…

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2 mph

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The larger the diameter of the axon, the…

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Faster the rate of transmission

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Facilitation in the neurons transmembrane potential refers to…

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A shift closer to threshold

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Sensory neurons that provide information about the external environment through the sense of sight, smell, hearing, and touch are called…

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Exteroceptors

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The main functional difference between the autonomic nervous system and the somatic nervous system is that the activities of the ANS are…

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Primarily involuntary or under automatic control

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EPSPs and IPSPs reflect the activation of different types of chemically gated channels, producing…

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Opposing effects on the transmembrane potential

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If one EPSP depolarizers the initial segment from a resting potential of -70 mV to -65 mV, and threshold is at -60 mV, an…

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Action potential will not be generated

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An example of presynaptic facilitation is…

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Calcium channels remaining open for a longer period, due to the influence of axoaxonic synapse activity, thus increasing the amount of neurotransmitter released