All about the Neuron
Another name for a 'nerve cell'.
What is a neuron?
Brain lobe associated with visual processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
The longest axon in the human body.
From the spinal cord to the big toe (Sciatic nerve).
Part of the nervous system that contains the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system? (CNS)
The weight of the adult human brain.
What is about 3 pounds or 1.4 kilograms?
The part of the neuron that brings information to the cell body.
What is a dendrite?
Lobe responsible for language, problem solving, and interpretation of other people's behavior.
What is the frontal lobe?
The difference between grey matter and white matter.
White matter is myelinated, grey matter is not.
Part of the nervous system that contains all the other nerves in our body.
What is the peripheral nervous system? (PNS)
Hormone associated with love.
What is oxytocin?
The part of the neuron that takes information away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
Brain lobe associated with hearing, memory, emotion, and some aspects of language; contains the primary auditory cortex.
What is the temporal lobe?
Purpose of gryi and sulci in the brain.
What is to increase surface area?
This structure in the brain is responsible for the flight-or-flight response.
What is the amygdala?
Part of the brain named because of its resemblance to a seahorse, also responsible for learning and memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The space between two neurons.
What is the synapse?
Brain lobe involved in processing various sensory and perceptual information (taste, smell, sight, touch, and pain); contains the primary somatosensory cortex.
What is the parietal lobe?
Part of the brain that connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This sensory system is the only one in which the information travels directly to cortex, without first going through a thalamic relay station.
What is olfaction?
Part of the brain that keeps us from being able to tickle ourselves.
What is the cerebellum?
The explosion of electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends information.
What is an action potential?
The function controlled by Broca's area of the brain.
What is speech?
A structure in the brain that is the main relay station for processing sensory information.
What is the thalamus?
These cells make up About 90% of all the cells in the brain.
What are glial cells?
Approximately how many pain receptors are in the brain.
What is 0?