The Nervous System

5. The nerve responsible for pronating the forearm and flexing the wrist, fingers, and thumb.
6. This nerve flexes the hip and extends the knee.
8. One of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes posteriorly into the spinal cord.
9. The voluntary nervous system is known as this type of nervous system.
10. This is responsible for control of many body functions, including pulse rate, temperature regulation, emotion, thirst, and more.
12. The portion of the brain responsible for processing of visual information.
16. The motor nerves, which carry commands to the muscles, are also known by this name.
18. A neurotransmitter secreted by the autonomic nervous system.
20. fissure The crevasse that separates the right and left hemispheres of the cerebrum (2 words).
22. The area of the brain between the spinal cord and cerebrum, surrounded by the cerebellum; controls functions that are necessary for life, such as respiration.

1. Chemicals produced by neurons that stimulate electrical reactions in adjacent cells.
2. The region of the brain essential in coordinating muscle movements of the body.
3. The part of the nervous system that consists of 31 pairs of spinal nerves and 11 pairs of cranial nerves.
4. The brain lobe responsible for sensory information other than smell, hearing, and vision.
7. The longest peripheral nerve in the body.
11. This autonomic nervous system is referred to as this type of nervous system.
13. The lobe of the brain responsible for voluntary motor actions and personality traits.
14. This nerve supplies the muscles that extend the elbow and supinate the forearm.
15. Nerves that carry commands from the brain to peripheral muscles.
17. Collections of nerve cell bodies located outside the central nervous system.
19. The nerve that provides motor function to the muscles of the tongue and throat.
21. The nerve that provides motor functions to the pharynx and larynx.