Neurotransmitters
This is the neurotransmitter that is associated with feelings of pleasure and reward
What is dopamine?
These two parts of the body constitute the Central Nervous system
What are the brain and spine?
Jimmy has chest hair and a deep voice as a consequence of this hormone.
What is testosterone?
Paul's homie is having trouble seeing after falling off a horse. He may have suffered damage to this lobe of the brain...
What is the occipital lobe?
In any experiment, this is the variable that we are measuring
What is the dependent variable?
This NT is associated with mood regulation, a deficit can be associated with depression
What is Serotonin?
After touching a hot stove, these neurons convey information to the spinal cord alerting it of incoming heat sensations
What are sensory or afferent neurons?
A person struggling with diabetes is dealing with issues regarding this hormone that regulates blood sugar.
What is insulin?
This cortex processes sensations from all parts of the body, but some parts more than others...
What is the somatosensory cortex?
Sammy was dealing with major seizures, so the doctor severed this network of fibers in the brain, reducing seizures but causing some peculiar challenges to consciousness.
What is the corpus callosum?
This "natural opiate" is associated with the elusive "runner's high"
What are endorphines?
What are nerves?
What is adrenaline?
For someone in a vegetative state, most higher brain functions are shut down, but not this brain component that will keep them breathing.
What is the medulla?
It was this man who made famous the theory that all of our psychological experience may be the product of random genetic mutations leading to novel traits that promote survival and reproductive fitness.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Chemically identical with Adrenaline, this NT is associated with our fight or flight response
What is norepinephrine?
After a scary wildlife encounter, this division of the nervous system kicked in to bring Jimmy back to his normal state
What is the parasympathetic nervous system
Sometimes called the "love hormone," this hormone has gained a attraction due to its association with romance and social bonding.
What is oxytocin?
After his traumatic injury, Phineas Gage was said to be "no longer Gage" due to an injury to this part of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex?
We thought we were measuring the relationship between ice cream sales and murder rates, but it ended up being the weather influencing the trend, which was acting as this sort of variable.
What is a confounding variable?
Caffeine inhibits the release of this neurotransmitter, causing a spike in alertness
What is GABA?
These are the neurons that communicate sense data from sensory to motor neurons
What are interneurons?
A person who is having trouble putting on weight may be dealing with hyperactivity in this gland.
What is the thyroid?
A Spanish three student will still be challenged to understand a native speaker of spanish, placing this cortex of the brain under increased distress
What is Wernicke's area?
This man is considered the founder of psychoanalytic psychology for his pioneering and scandalizing forays into the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud?