Nervous Systems
The brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
The tail
What is the axon?
Where light is perceived as vision
What are the occipital lobes?
The reward feeling
What is dopamine?
His case study gave some of the first medical knowledge on where personality and critical thinking reside
Who is Phineas Gage?
Any system outside of the central nervous system
What is the peripheral nervous sytsem?
The cell body
What is the soma?
Where soundwaves are perceived as sound
What are the temporal lobes?
Controls emotions
What is serotonin?
Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel discovered specialized neurons in the occipital lobes called these
What are feature detectors?
Controls blood pressure, respiration, digestion, and sexual function
What is the autonomic nervous system?
What are dendrites?
Create the feelings of fear, anger, anxiety, and aggression
What are the amygdalas?
The break pedal
What is GABA?
Discovered the section responsible for speech production
Who is Paul Broca?
The system in charge of creating the fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The protective layer around the axon
What is the myelin sheath?
Creates the feelings of hunger and satiety (fullness)
What is the hypothalamus?
Too much causes muscle spasms
What is acetylcholine?
Discovered the section responsible for language comprehension
Who is Carl Wernicke?
Controls voluntary movement and sensory input
What is the somatic nervous system?
The two ions involved in creating neural impulses
What are sodium and potassium?
What is the pituitary gland?
Involved in fight or flight
What is norepinephrine/epinephrine?
Known for his groundbreaking discoveries on cerebral lateralization