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Which cerebral lobe contains a center for visual input?
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Occipital lobe
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Which cerebral lobe governs somatosensory input (namely, the skin and muscles?
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Parietal lobe
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Which cerebral lobe regulates, motor output cognition and speech production?
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Frontal lobe
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Which cerebral lobe houses auditory and olfactory areas, as well as Wernickels area??
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Temporal lobe
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What exits the skull through the forman magnum and extends to about the L2 region?
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Spinal Cord
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What is the term used to describe the lower end of the spinal cord that is marked by the thread-like fibrous extension of the pia mater?
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Filum terminale
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What are the ends of the spinal cord that fan out like a horeses tail
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Cauda equina
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Which is the study of the nervous system
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Neurology
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What is the term used to descirbe changes detected by the nervous system
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Stimuli
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Which is the connective tissue that surround the entire nerve
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Epineurium
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What is the collection of nerves running in a colum up and down the spinal cord??
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Tract
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What is the term used to describe the amount of stimuli needed to reach a threshold stimulus and create a nerve impulse
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Summation
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What is the term used to describe the inside of the neural membrane bearing a negative charge and the outside of the neural membrane bearing a positive charge?
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Polarized
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What is the method that produces and maintains the resting potential in a neuron
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Sodium potassium pump
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What are impulses called taht are conducted along myelinated axons
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Saltatory conduction
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