parts of the brain
Helps with sleep
What is the pons?
a hallucinagen that takes you on a visual "trip"
What is LSD
The sleep stage where you dream
What is REM
The cells life support center
What is the cell body
An example of this would be claimimg you knew Michigan would beat Michigan State in football the whole time after the game ended.
What is Hindsight bias
learning and memory
what is the hippocampus responsible for?
The most used and abused drug
What is caffine
Sudden attacks of overwhelming sleepiness
What is Narcolepsy
They recieve messages from other cells
What are the dendrites
Chemical messengers
What are Neurotransmitters
Heartbeat and breathing
What is the medulla responsible for?
A depressant that gives a rush of euphoria and relief from pain
What is heroin
Our biological clock of sleep patterns
What is the circadian rhythm
Helps speed up neural impulses
What is the Myelin Sheath
The nervous system in charge of voluntery actions
What is the somatic nervous system
Helps with balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
A stimulant that causes arousal and relaxation
What is nicotine?
When someone stops breathing repeatidly during sleep
What is sleep apnea
Passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles or glands
What is the axon
The brains ability to adapt to conditions after an injury to recover
What is Plasticity
Controls the bodies maintanance functions like eating.
What is the hypothalamus?
A stimulant/hallucinagen that causes emotional elevation and dishinibition
What is ecstacy
Waves that occur during deep sleep and are associated with dreaming
What are delta waves
Forms junctions with other cells
What are the terminal branches
When the brains 2 hemispheres are isolated from one another
What are split brains