Efferent (motor) information is carried from the brain along ______________(Descending tracts or Ascending tracts) of the spinal cord
descending tracts
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Name the structure at number 8. Can also be referred to as posterior in the name.
dorsal root ganglion
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Name the specific gray horn at number 13. Can also be referred to as posterior in the name.
dorsal grey horn
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Name the type of neuron at number 3. Also called an interneuron. Hint: This neuron always ends at the thalamus.
second order sensory neurons
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Name the specific nuclei at number 6
somatic motor nuclei
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Sensory signals typically travel across three neurons from their origin in the receptors to their destination in the brain. The category of neuron that carries the signal from the thalamus to the cerebral cortex is called:
third order neuron
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Name the specific neuron at number 1. Also called an efferent neuron
somatic motor neuron
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Name the specific gray horn at number 8
ventral grey horn
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Name the specific nuclei of interneurons at number 5
somatic sensory nuclei
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Sensory information is carried to the brain along ______________(Descending tracts or Ascending tracts) of the spinal cord
ascending tracts
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Name the structure at number 7
spinal nerve
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Name the specific gray horn at number 10
lateral horn
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Number 2 is the cell body of what kind of neuron? Also called an efferent neuron