Nerves
Anxiety
Raging Hormones
Snap the Synapse
Brain power
100
Broca's area
What is expressing thoughts in spoken language?
100
Damage to this part of the brain would affect someone playing an instrument
What is cerebellum?
100
This type of drug mimics a particular neurotransmitter
What is an agonist?
100
These chemical messengers are released in the endocrine gland
What are hormones?
100
Information is carried from the Central Nervous System to the tissues by these
What are motor neurons?
200
This hormone is released when you are trying to run away from a scary stranger
What is epinephrine?
200
This neural structure would be affected by a poison developed to block dopamine
What is a receptor site?
200
Information is carried from the central nervous system to the tissues by these neurons
What are sensory neurons?
200
This part of the brain would light up when a person is showing signs of violence and aggression
What is the amygdala?
200
This allows one part of the brain to take over another part (and is especially so in young children)
What is brain plasticity?
300
If you are hurt, these types of nerves travel to your central nervous system
What are sensory nerves?
300
This is the seat of the brain for sexual desire
What is the hypothalamus?
300
This is the part of the brain damaged if a person cannot understand what you are saying
What is Wernicke's area?
300
These are synapses
What are junctions between sending and receiving neurons?
300
This is the part of the brain that allows you to be sensitive to touch
What is the somatosensory cortex?
400
This system allows messages to be transmitted to the spinal cord to muscles in your hands (so that you can pull it away from a hot stove)
What is the autonomic system?
400
This is the longest part of a neuron
What is the axon?
400
This is the reason you can pull your hand quickly away from a hot stove
What is involving the spinal cord only?
400
This part of the peripheral system controls glandular activity
What is the endocrine system?
400
This is the name for the period when a neuron recharges before it re-fires
What is refractory period?
500
These glands are involved during puberty
What are ovaries and testes?
500
When this gland is affected, you can either be very hyperactive or extremely exhausted
What is thyroid gland?
500
This is the all or nothing response
What is that a neuron always fires at the same intensity and all action potentials are the same strength?
500
This is the name for a drug that blocks the effect of a neurotransmitter
What is an antagonist?
500
This is the lobe of the brain that is being stimulated and allows you to feel someone scratching your back
What is the parietal lobe?
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