Nervous System
The part of your nervous system that does not include brain and spinal cord.
What is peripheral nervous system?
The part of a neuron that receives messages from other neurons.
What are the dendrites?
The space into which the neurotransmitters are released.
The part of the brain that acts as a sensory relay center.
What is the thalamus?
A hormone associated with "fight or flight."
What is adrenaline / epinephrine?
Disease caused by lesions to the primary visual cortex.
What is blindsight?
The part of your nervous system responsible for voluntary moment.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The part of the neuron that speeds up action potentials and protects the axon.
What is the myelin sheath?
A neurotransmitter associated with moods.
What is serotonin?
The part of the brain responsible for breathing and heart rate.
What is the brain stem (or medulla)?
A hormone associated with sleep.
What is melatonin?
Disease that involves destruction of myelin sheath, causing impaired mobility, paralysis, and pain.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
The part of your nervous system that calms you down after a stressful event is over.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The type of neuron that relay information from the environment toward the brain.
What are sensory neurons?
A neurotransmitter associated with the reward centers of the brain.
What is dopamine?
The parts of the brain that "talk to" or "control" the endocrine system and hormone release?
What is the hypothalamus via the pituitary gland?
A hormone that makes you feel full or satiated.
What is leptin?
Damage to part of the brain that results in jumbled speech.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
What is sympathetic nervous system?
Neurons that are neither sensory or motor.
What are interneurons?
A neurotransmitter associated with movement and memory.
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
The part of the brain that, if damaged, will result in the inability to wake up.
What is the reticular formation?
A hormone active during childbirth and lactation.
What is oxytocin?
Disease that involves the blocking of acetylcholine, which causes poor motor control and paralysis.
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
The impact that the activation of the sympathetic nervous system has on digestion.
What is the slowing if digestion?
When a neuron must rest and reset before it can send another action potential.
What is the refractory period?
A major inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
Damage to this area will result in the inability to produce speech.
What is Broca's Area?
A hormone produced in your stomach that makes you feel hunger.
What is ghrelin?
The name for the condition in which people cannot recognize faces?
What is Prosopagnosia?