Brain Function and structure
This brain region controls vital functions like heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
This neurotransmitter acts as natural pain killers.
What is endorphins?
This scan shows brain activity by measuring radioactive glucose.
What is a PET scan?
The Brain and spinal cord make up this part of the nervous system.
What is central nervous system?
What are the three stages of memory in the information-processing model?
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
This lobe is responsible for decision-making, planning, and personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
The feel good/ pleasure neurotransmitter that is involved in reward, attention, and motivation excess is linked to schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine?
This method uses magnetic fields to show detailed brain structures.
What is an MRI?
What two major parts is the peripheral nervous system.
What is the somatic and autonomic nervous system?
What type of memory is responsible for remembering personal experiences and events?
What is episodic memory?
This area of the brain that is considered the "little brain" coordinates balance and fine motor movement.
What is the cerebellum?
The “mood” neurotransmitter that influences sleep, appetite and other body functions.
What is serotonin?
What is the brains ability to change and adapt as a result of experience
This system controls voluntary muscle movements.
What is somatic nervous system?
This progressive disorder leads to severe memory loss and is associated with plaques and tangles in the brain.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
Known as the brain’s “switchboard,” this area relays sensory information.
What is the thalamus?
This neurotransmitter is involved in alertness and arousal, part of body’s flight or fight response.
What is norepinephrine or noradrenaline?
Combines function and structure in one scan.
What is an fMRI?
The “flight or fight” response is triggered by this system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Damage to this brain area can cause difficulty producing speech, a condition called expressive aphasia.
What is Broca’s area?
This structure helps form new memories and is affected in Alzheimer’s.
What is the hippocampus?
The brain's primary inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid)?
This method records brain waves through electrodes on the scalp.
What is an EEG?
This branch of the autonomic system calms the body.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This cognitive bias involves relying on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions.
What is the anchoring bias?