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100

The minimum amount of time needed before a neuron can fire another action potential

What is absolute refractory period?

100

The branch of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord

What is the central nervous system (CNS)?

100

Role of the hippocampus?

Transfer things to long term memory

100

The part of the brain responsible for producing speech?

What is Broca's area?

100

The wrinkled outer layer of the forebrain

What is the cerebral cortex?

200

The part of the neuron responsible for receiving incoming signals from other neurons

What is a dendrite?

200

Consists of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

What is the autonomic nervous system (ANS)

200

A type of brain scan that uses radioactive tracers to map chemical activity in the brain

What is a positron emission tomography (PET) scan?

200

The part of the brain responsible for coordinating voluntary movement and balance

What is the cerebellum?

200

The (somato)sensory cortex is located in this lobe

What is the parietal lobe?

300

Where neurotransmitters are released from

What are terminal buttons?

300

The division of the nervous system that allows us to feel the world and move around in it

What is the somatic NS?

300

Primitive brain, called little brain

Cerebellum

300

Limbic system structure responsible for learning fear and other basic emotional responses

What is the amygdala?

300

Wernicke's area is located in this lobe

What is the LEFT temporal lobe?

400

Deficits of this neurotransmitter is linked to Alzheimer's disease

What is acetylcholine (ACh)?

400

Part of the nervous system that is responsible for flight or fight

Sympathetic nervous system

400

The part of the brain that determines which hormones need to be released through the endocrine system

What is the hypothalamus?

400

This part of the brain was damaged when Phineas Gage suffered an accident

What is the frontal lobe?

400

Ms. Andi got hit by a soccer player's ball during a match and was unable to see out of her left eye afterwards (name the area damage, be specific)

What is the RIGHT occipital lobe?

500

The charge of a neuron at rest (be specific)

What is -70 milivolts?

500

Activation of this branch of our nervous system would result in slowed heart rate and increased digestion (be specific)

What is the parasympathetic NS?

500

Why do some cells have myelin sheaths?

to increase speed of impulses
500

The part of the brain that acts as our sensory switchboard, routing all sensory messages except smell

What is the thalamus?

500

What lobe is Wernicke's area in? Be specific

Left temporal lobe

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