Lobes
Involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments
(located behind the forehead)
What is frontal lobe?
Responsible for automatic survival functions
(begins where the spinal cord swells)
What is brainstem?
Location of receptors to which neurotransmitters bind
What is the dendrite?
Neurotransmitter associated with Depression
What is Serotonin?
Regulates sleep, arousal, consciousness, and sensory processes
What is pons?
Receives sensory input for touch and body position
(located top of the head toward the rear)
What is parietal lobe?
Region of the brain that is important for language comprehension
(located of the left side of the temporal lobe)
What is Wernicke's Area?
This disease involves the demyelination of neurons.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
This neurotransmitter plays a key role in neural inhibition in the CNS.
What is GABA?
Involved in the formation of new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Areas that receive information from visual fields
(located at the back of the head)
What is occipital lobe?
neural system associated with emotions and drives
What is limbic system?
Fatty insulting layer covering axon that enhances speed of neural transmission.
What is the myelin sheath?
Contains vesicles full of neurotransmitters.
What is the terminal button?
Directs maintenance activities and regulates the endocrine system. Regulates drives such as hunger and thirst.
(linked with emotion and reward)
What is Hypothalamus?
Includes auditory areas, receiving information primarily from the opposite ear
(located above the ears)
What is temporal lobe?
Concerned with the production of speech
What is Broca's Area?
This antagonist drug blocks the action of Acetylcholine at the postsynaptic receptor.
What is curare?
Neurotransmitter with altered levels in Schizophrenia and Parkinson's Disease.
What is Dopamine?
Coordinates movement output and balance and enables nonverbal learning and memory
"little brain"
What is cerebellum?
The four lobes in your brain
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes?
Controls voluntary movements
What is motor cortex?
BONUS
The gap between neurons.
What is the synapse or synaptic cleft?
Neurotransmitter associated with Alzheimer's Disease.
What is Acetylcholine(ACh)?
Controls heartbeat and breathing
What is medulla?