Across
- 6. Long, slender projection of a neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body
- 7. Refers to the parts of the brain containing the cerebral cortex
- 8. Something that causes a physiological or psychological response
- 9. A part of the brain that controls smooth, patterned, and coordinated movements
- 11. Create neural circuits, enabling communication between sensory or motor neurons
- 12. A short, branched extension of a neuron, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body
- 16. Any structure that produces an informative nerve impulse when receiving environmental stimuli
- 17. Part of the brainstem that controls breathing, BP, & HR
- 18. Structure that permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell
Down
- 1. A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus (i.e. touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing)
- 2. Of, at, or forming the center
- 3. Efferent nerves that carry signals from the spinal cord to the muscles
- 4. Sensation of flavor perceived in the mouth on contact with a substance
- 5. Neurons that transfer sensory information
- 7. The compact area of a cell that contains the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding axons and dendrites
- 10. Of, or related to being situated on the edge of something
- 13. Term meaning "conveying away from the center"
- 14. Cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals
- 15. An action that is performed as a response to a stimulus without conscious thought
- 18. Largest organ; protects the whole body