The Nervous System
This is made up of the brain and the spinal cord.
The Central Nervous System
One of the three levels of the brain that produces raw emotion.
This machine is used the most in sleep studies.
What is an EEG?
What is substance P?
This type of drug increases brain function.
What is a stimulant?
In the reflexive arc, a sensory neuron must communicate with a _____ before the motor neuron can react.
What is an interneuron?
Used for implicit memory.
What is the cerebellum?
A paradoxical stage of sleep where a person's brain is functioning as if it is awake.
What is REM?
Helpful for creating memories.
What is Glutamate?
A heroin addict might experience symptoms such as vomiting, cold sweats, nausea, headaches, twitching etc. when they do what?
What is stop taking heroin?
The inability to form thoughts into words.
What is Broca's Aphasia?
Jet lag can throw this off.
What is the circadian rhythm?
Botulin, a chemical in improperly packed canned foods blocks ACh release causing paralysis. Botulin is this type of molecule.
What is Antagonist?
The reason people that drink excessive amounts of alcohol make poor judgements.
What is depresses the frontal lobe?
When the myelin sheaf breaks down, this occurs.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
When someone with a split brain is shown a number to their left eye only, they do this to communicate what they saw.
One theory proposes that dreams do this to memories.
What is consolidate?
What does an SSRI do to Serotonin?
What is block its reuptake?
The difference between an opioid and an opiate.
What is opioids are synthetic and opiates are from the poppy plant?
When Einstein's brain was dissected, they found he had a more than average number of these.
What are Glial cells?
When scientists attached an electrode to this part of the brain in a rat, the rat stimulated itself 1000 times an hour.
What is the hypothalamus?
Freud believed that dreams had these two types of content.
What are latent and manifest?
Sleep paralysis occurs when this neurotransmitter is still in a person's system after waking up.
What is GABA?
Marijuana is considered a hallucinogen because it alters a person's ability to _____.
What is tell the passage time or sense time?