Neuroscience Exam Study Guide with Questions and Complete Solutions

What makes up the central nervous system? Brain and spinal cord What makes up the peripheral nervous system? CN and ganglia Spinal nerves and ganglia Enteric nervous system Sympathetic and parasympathetic What are the 5 steps of embryological development of the nervous system? Neurulation Cell proliferation Migration and aggregation Formation of axonal and dendritic processes Synatopgenesis What is neurulation? Formation of the neural crest and neural tube (1st step of nervous system development) What is the 2nd step of nervous system development? Cell proliferation within the nerual tube What is the 3rd step of nervous system development? Migration and aggregation of cells within definitive locations What is the 4th step of nervous system development? Formation and axonal and dendritic processes What is synatopgenesis? Connections between nerve cell to nerve cells or muscle cells (final step of nervous system development)