Exam 9: The Nervous System Part I: the Information Super Highway

List the steps in chemical synaptic transmission.

This disease is characterized by progressive fluctuating muscle weakness starting in the facial or eye muscles ________.

The ________ is located in a hollow tube running inside the vertebral column from the foramen magnum to the second lumbar (L2) vertebrae.

The nerves going to the upper limbs join the spinal cord at the ____________ region.

A(n) ________ is a group of nerve cell bodies outside the CNS.

Repetitive motion can cause ________ syndrome in the wrists.

Branches and recombinations of nerves are called ____________.

Which part of the spinal cord carries sensory information?

The period when a cell is unable to accept another stimulus is the ____________ period.

Bruises to the spinal cord may resolve with time and rehabilitation, but a severed, or crushed spinal cord is usually a(n) ________ injury.

Oligodendrocytes make myelin.

Acute treatment for spinal cord injury includes ________.