Brain Functions
Parts of the Brain
Your Glands
Brain Drain
Nervous System
100
MRI and EEG
What are two of the methods of viewing the brain?
100
Occipital Lobe
What is the area of the brain involved with vision?
100
Thyroid Gland
What is the gland that regulates metabolism--how you burn calories?
100
Afferent nerves
What nerves take information to the brain?
100
Central Nervous System
What is comprised of the brain and spinal cord?
200
Neurotransmitters
What are the chemicals that carry the message from neuron to neuron called?
200
Broca's Area and Wernicke's Area
What are the two parts of the brain involved with language?
200
Pituitary Gland
What gland is known as the master gland?
200
Phenotype
What is the description of a person's actual genetic material?
200
Peripheral Nervous System
What is the system of nerves that branches out from the brain and spinal cord?
300
Corpus Callosum
What is the area of the brain that connects the left and right hemishere called?
300
Hypothalamus
What controls eating, drinking and sexual impulses?
300
Endocrine System
What is the system of glands referred to?
300
Lobotomy
What is the procedure that was used to split the lobes of the brain?
300
Sympathetic Nervous System
What is the system that arouse or stimulates the body?
400
Contains emotional and cognitive functioning.
What are the basic functions of the forebrain?
400
Contains emotional and cognitive functioning.
What are the basic functions of the forebrain?
400
Adrenal Gland
What is the gland that is involved with stress?
400
Brain Plasticity
What is the brain's capacity for modification or change?
400
Somatic Nervous System
What are the nerves that carry information from the skin and muscles to the CNS.
500
Oxytocin
What is the neurotransmitter responsible for the fight or flight response?
500
Cerebral cortex
What is the wrinkled outer layer of the forebrain?
500
Pineal Gland
What is the gland involved with your sleep patterns?
500
Myelin Sheath
What is the protective covering on the axon?
500
Efferent Nerves
What are the nerves that carry information away from the brain?
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