The Primitive Brain
The part of the brain that keeps us breathing
What is the medulla?
The cell known as a chemical-electrical signal generator.
What is a neuron?
The branch of the nervous system that contains the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
Disease characterized by an "electrical brainstorm."
What is epilepsy?
The part of the brain that is home to the locus coeruleus (producer of norepinephrine)
What is the Pons?
The region and hemisphere of the brain that controls feeling and sensation in the left arm and leg.
What is the somatosensory cortex on the right side of the brain?
The part of the nervous system that allows for voluntary muscle control and sensory experiences
What is the somatic nervous system?
The name of the man who survived an iron rod that went through his frontal lobe in 1848
Who is Phineas Gage?
The "CEO" of the brain responsible for thinking and planning
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
The part of the neuron that takes the information away from the cell body
What is an axon?
The part of the nervous system that prepares us to respond to a potential danger.
What is the sympathetic nervous system.
Electrical activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain electrodes.
What is an EEG?
The hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala taken collectively
What is the limbic system (three main parts)?
The part of the brain that allows us to produce speech and where it is located.
What are Broca's Area and the left frontal lobe?
Low levels of this neurotransmitter is involved in the development of Parkinson's disease.
What is Dopamine?
The lobe involved in "seeing stars" after a blow to the head
What is the occipital lobe?
The explosion of electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends information.
What is an action potential?