_________________ 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.

Related MCQs

• 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.
• ____ in the spinal cord that carry information from the brain to muscles and glands throughout the body.
• 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.
• __________ is the thick nerve that exits from the back of the eye and carries visual information to the visual cortex in the brain.
• ______________ is a communication system composed of glands located throughout the body that secrete hormones into the blood stream.
• ___________________ 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.
• The reticular formation has long tracts of fibers that run to the ____________, which channels incoming sensory information to the appropriate area of the cerebral cortex, where that information is processed.
• ____________________ refers to the point at which a stimulus is strong enough to be detected by activating sensory receptors.
• 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 ___________________.