🧠 Nervous System Crossword 🧠

4. / a genetic nervous system disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel, and behave clearly and treatments could include psychotherapy
7. / consists of the nerves that extend between the CNS and the structure in which they terminate
9. / cell of a nerve tissue characterized by its specialization to conduct impulses
12. / a long process of a neuron that carries a nerve impulse away from the cell
13. / (efferent) carries impulses away from the CNS
14. / a genetic nervous system disorder that is a progressive mental deterioration that can occur in middle or old age, due to generalized degeneration of the brain

1. / not under conscious control and innervates glands, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle
2. / bundle of nerve fibers and associated tissue which is enclosed in the spine and connects nearly all parts of the body to the brain
3. / consists of the brain and spinal cord
5. / an organ of the nervous system composed of a bundle of neuron axons invested and surrounded by connective tissue and blood vessels
6. / control center of the nervous system
8. / (afferent) carries the impulses to the CNS
10. / under conscious control and stimulates skeletal muscle
11. / a molecule that transmits or inhibits the transmission of a nerve impulse from one neuron to another across a synapse
15. / the junction between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron