4.5 The nervous system

What does the nervous system enable humans to do?

Where is information retrieved?

How is that information passed along?

Where does the information travel to?

What coordinates a response?

What is the brain made out of?

What is the cerebral cortex?

What is the cerebellum?

What is the medulla?

How have scientists been able to map the regions of the brain to particular functions?

What is the speed of a reflex action?

Which neurones are invloved with reflex actions?

What happens during a simple reflex such as a pain-withdrawal reflex?

Give two examples of an effector

What is the nervous system sequence?