The Nervous System

Recall cards on the animal nervous system: neuron structure (soma, dendrites, axon, synapse) and the neuron types; glial cells (astrocytes, microglia, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, and others); how neurons communicate through the resting membrane potential, the action potential, and chemical and electrical synapses; synaptic integration and plasticity (summation, LTP, LTD); the central nervous system (meninges, cerebrospinal fluid, the cortex and its lobes, subcortical structures, the brainstem, and the spinal cord); the peripheral nervous system (autonomic sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions and the sensory-somatic division); and nervous system disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, and stroke).