Which part is known as the ‘ relay centre’ and transmit almost all the sensory messages?

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• The ________________ nervous system communicates sensory information received by sense organ receptors to the central nervous system and carries messages from the central nervous system along motor nerves to the muscles.
• _________________ usually communicates inhibitory messages to other neurons and helps balance and offset excitatory messages.
• The ______________ system is made up of glands located throughout the body and uses chemical messengers called hormones to transmit information from one part of the body to another.
• The structure that identifies and integrates sensory information for all the senses except smell and relays it to higher brain centers is the ____________________.
• The brain structure that is part of the brain stem and is an important relay station that helps coordiante auditory and visual information before sending it on to higher brain centers is called the ___________________.
• Thalamus is a __________________ structure that processes sensory information from all of the senses, except smell, and relays it to the cerebral cortex.
• The __________________ are involved in processing and integrating sensory and motor information, language, abstract reasoning, creative thought, and the integration of perceptions and memories.
• _________________ carries sensory information via afferent nerve fibers from receptors throughout the body to the brain and conducts information via efferent nerve fibers from the brain to muscles and glands.
• ___________________ is the long, thin, blunt sensory receptors that are highly sensitive to light but not color and are primarily responsible for peripheral vision and night vision.
• _________________ is the specialized sensory receptors for taste that are located on the tongue and inside the mouth and the throat.