The Nervous System
This structure, which includes dendrites and an axon, is the basic building block of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
The general term for the large regions of the brain where different functions are located.
What are lobes?
A state that includes limited physical mobility and muscle relaxation.
What are the stages of sleep?
The failure to get enough sleep at night in order to feel rested the next day.
What is insomnia?
A state of awareness, including a person’s feelings, sensations, ideas, and perceptions.
What is consciousness?
The long fiber that carries impulses away from the cell body.
What is an axon?
The lobe concerned with hearing, emotion, memory, and speaking.
What is the temporal lobe?
The stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement and dreaming.
What is REM sleep?
Stress and fatigue are frequently linked to this nighttime activity.
What is sleepwalking?
This technique can be used to reduce pain, even for surgeries.
What is hypnosis?
Chemical messengers such as norepinephrine, dopamine, and acetylcholine.
What are neurotransmitters?
The band of fibers connecting the hemispheres of the brain?
What is the corpus callosum?
The stage of sleep that is the deepest of all. It is often difficult to waken a sleeper in this stage
What is Stage IV? (Four)
Suddenly falling asleep during the middle of the day.
What is narcolepsy?
An altered state of consciousness where people become highly suggestible.
What is hypnosis?
The part of the nervous system that controls involuntary muscles, like the heart.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The side of the body controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain.
What is the right side?
This common activity usually occurs when we are bored.
What is daydreaming?
This group of people spends the most time sleeping on average.
Who are newborns?
This practice focuses on narrowing attention and can achieve effects similar to relaxation.
What is meditation?
The gap that exists between individual nerve cells.
What is the synapse?
The part of the brain responsible for higher thinking processes.
What is the forebrain?
He believed that dreams contain clues to unconscious thoughts and desires.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A disorder where a person repeatedly stops breathing during the night.
What is sleep apnea?
Learning to control internal physiological processes like heart rate.
What is biofeedback?