Brain Anatomy - Structure
This part of the brain is divided into the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes.
What is the cerebrum?
This part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This part of the neuron receives information.
What are dendrites?
This neurotransmitter is strongly associated with the brain's reward and motivation pathways.
What is dopamine?
This deep brain structure is shaped like a seahorse and is essential for forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This structure connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This region of the brain processes touch and sensation information.
What is the parietal lobe?
This surrounds some axons and helps speed up the transmission of electrical signals.
What is the myelin sheath?
This is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain.
What is GABA?
This brain region is strongly involved in regulating emotions such as fear.
What is the amygdala?
The ridges and folds of the cerebral cortex are known as what, respectively.
What are gyri and sulci?
This portion of the nervous system is responsible for maintaining homeostasis, also known as “rest and digest”.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The gap between neurons that signals cross is known as:
What is the synaptic cleft?
This neurotransmitter is commonly associated with muscle contraction at the neuromuscular junction.
What is acetylcholine?
This term describes the brain's ability to change its structure and function in response to experience and learning.
What is neuroplasticity?
These fluid-filled cavities within the brain produce and contain cerebrospinal fluid.
What are the ventricles?
This brain region is responsible for the coordination of movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
This electrical signal travels down a neuron's axon.
What is the action potential?
This neurotransmitter is often associated with mood, sleep, and appetite.
This part of the cortex is particularly important for decision-making, planning, and impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This small region is located ventrally to the thalamus in the forebrain and acts as a control center to keep your internal systems stable and balanced.
What is the hypothalamus?
This structure takes in sensory information from the environment, except smell, and is located deep within the brain.
What is the thalamus?
During an action potential, this ion rapidly enters the neuron to cause depolarization.
What is sodium (Na+)?
This neurotransmitter is released at many sympathetic nerve endings and helps increase the heart rate during the body's "fight-or-flight" response.
What is Broca's area?