All about Neurons
Another name for a "nerve cell"
What is a Neuron?
The body's information processing center.
What is the Central Nervous system?
The body’s “slow” communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodsteam.
What is the Endocrine System?
Uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
What is an MRI?
(Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
The part of the neuron that brings information to the cell body
What is a dendrite?
Responsible for taking in sensory information and carrying it to the spinal cord and brain stem.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
Increase heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar,
providing us with a surge of energy.
What is the Adrenal glands?
(epinephrine, Norepinephrine)
A visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task.
What is PET?
(Positron Emission Tomography)
The part of the neuron that takes information away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
Name of the man who survived after an iron rod went through the frontal lobe of his brain in 1848.
Who is Phineas Gage
The most influential endocrine gland, controlled by the hypothalamus, that releases hormones that influence growth.
What is the pituitary gland?
Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.
What is a CAT or CT scan?
(Computed Axial Tomography Scan)
The junction between two neurons.
What is a synapse?
Area of the brain responsible for planning, decision making, and personality formation.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion. Excess activity at it’s receptors has been linked with schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine?
Brain Scans look at two main aspects, the physical anatomy of the brain and where the brain is most active
What are Structural Brain Scans and Functional Brain Scans?
The explosion of electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends information.
What is an action potential?
Connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
Works on neurons involved in muscle action, learning, and memory associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.
What is Acetylcholine?
EEG is the acronym for this term.
A graph that shows Electrical activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain electrodes.
What is Electroencephalography?