Nervous Systems
Neurons
Brain Parts
Neurotransmitters
Famous People
100

The brain and spinal cord

What is the central nervous system?

100

The tail

What is the axon?

100

Where light is perceived as vision

What are the occipital lobes?

100

The reward feeling

What is dopamine?

100

His case study gave some of the first medical knowledge on where personality and critical thinking reside

Who is Phineas Gage?

200

Any system outside of the central nervous system

What is the peripheral nervous sytsem?

200

The cell body

What is the soma?

200

Where soundwaves are perceived as sound

What are the temporal lobes?

200

Controls emotions

What is serotonin?

200

Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel discovered specialized neurons in the occipital lobes called these

What are feature detectors?

300

Controls blood pressure, respiration, digestion, and sexual function

What is the autonomic nervous system?

300
Branches around the cell body for receiving impulses

What are dendrites?

300

Create the feelings of fear, anger, anxiety, and aggression

What are the amygdalas?

300

The break pedal

What is GABA?

300

Discovered the section responsible for speech production

Who is Paul Broca?

400

The system in charge of creating the fight or flight response

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

400

The protective layer around the axon

What is the myelin sheath?

400

Creates the feelings of hunger and satiety (fullness)

What is the hypothalamus?

400

Too much causes muscle spasms

What is acetylcholine?

400

Discovered the section responsible for language comprehension

Who is Carl Wernicke?

500

Controls voluntary movement and sensory input

What is the somatic nervous system?

500

The two ions involved in creating neural impulses

What are sodium and potassium?

500
In charge of growth and development and releasing hormones 

What is the pituitary gland?

500

Involved in fight or flight

What is norepinephrine/epinephrine?

500

Known for his groundbreaking discoveries on cerebral lateralization

Who is Michael Gazzaniga?
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