Across
- 4. Nerve cells or electrical signals that are sent all over the body by the brain and has three different types
- 5. Includes a network of nerves that branch out from the spinal cord. Relays information from the brain and spinal cord to other organs
- 8. One system that makes up the PNS and regulates activities people do without thinking
- 9. Part of the CNS and sends motor commands from the brain to the body
- 11. One system that makes up the PNS and guides voluntary movements
- 12. Part of the CNS and controls thoughts, memories, emotions, etc
- 14. A type of neuron that helps take in information from my senses to the brain
- 15. Includes brain and spinal cord. Regulates how people think, move, and feel
Down
- 1. Junctions that allow signals to pass between neurons
- 2. A type of neuron that helps take signals from the brain and spinal cord to muscles to help me move
- 3. A type of neuron that communicates between motor and sensory neurons and also regulates movement in response to the sensory information given by sensory neurons
- 6. Automatic responses to a stimulus that doesn't need conscious thoughts
- 7. Sensory mechanisms that help or control reflexes
- 10. Conduct electrical impulses toward the body of a nerve cell and collect messages from other neurons
- 13. Part of the structure of a neuron that carries signals from the cell to the synapses and transfer info to dendrites there