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Which professionals can make a medical diagnosis? correct answers Medical professionals (doctors) Excitatory inputs to a neuron correct answers brings target neuron closer to threshold inhibitory inputs to a neuron correct answers takes target neuron further from threshold frontal correct answers BRAIN LOBES AND FUNCTIONS voluntary movement, cognition; control panel for personality and emotions; problem solving, judgment, memory and language formulation occipital correct answers BRAIN LOBES AND FUNCTIONS vision; signals from the optic nerve will end up here, so that they can be further processed into understanding and interpreting the visual world around us temporal correct answers BRAIN LOBES AND FUNCTIONS hearing & memory processes; sense of hearing and processing sensory input. Not only does this region of the brain recognize the presence of sound, but of course it helps us understand those sounds parietal correct answers BRAIN LOBES AND FUNCTIONS sense of taste, touch, sensation of movement and where the body is in space CNS correct answers BASIC NEURAL STRUCTURES brain and spinal cord-protected by meninges-cerebrospinal fluid-blood brain barrier Two main structures: the brain & spinal cord gray matter for processing signals taking place within the brain white matter surrounds axons connecting neurons protected by the meninges, the three protective layers that completely cover the brain and the spinal cord; these are there to maintain a very protected and clean environment. Filled with cerebrospinal fluid blood brain barrier: kind of a sieve; it will let small things through, but not the big things There can be some damage to this blood brain barrier, which then will permit things to go through that shouldn't be crossing it if a virus were to enter the brain, that would create a very serious condition which we know of as encephalitis, or if the meninges themselves are infected, that's meningitis PNS correct answers BASIC NEURAL STRUCTURES sensory input from periphery-motor output to muscles-spinal nerves for trunk and limbs-cranial nerves for head and neck