CORE BASIC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
CONCEPTS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ Sympathetic PNS
Answer: part of the autonomic PNS affected by dangerous situations
◉ Parasympathetic
Answer: part of the autonomic PNS involved in calming, relaxing
activity
◉ Neuron
Answer: smaller functional unit of the Nervous System
◉ Dendrite
Answer: part of the neuron that receives information
◉ Soma
Answer: part of the neuron that integrates information
◉ Axon
, Answer: part of the neuron that conducts information
◉ Synaptic Boutons
Answer: part of the neuron that transmits information
◉ Action Potentials
Answer: signals that allow electrical signaling within the neuron
◉ Myelin
Answer: insulatory material covering an axon in a neuron to keep
the axon from decaying, which allows the electrical signal to make it
all the way through
◉ Synapses
Answer: a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute
gap
◉ Neurotransmitters
Answer: how neurons communicate with one another
◉ Path of Neurotransmitters
Answer: released from the neuron, cross the synaptic cleft, and
interact with receptors on the next neuron