Going G(lobe)l
When you want to make decisions, this lobe "Gages" what to do.
What is the frontal lobe?
The basic building block of the nervous system
What is a neuron?
This 'brain' is located at the rear base of the skull.
What is the hindbrain?
This injury is caused by a blow to the head.
What is a concussion?
These may play a role in influencing or causing psychological disorders
What are neurotransmitters?
This side of the brain is associated with speaking and mathematics
What is the left hemisphere?
These branch-like portions receive and communicate the nervous signal from the tips of the neuron to the cell body
What are dendrites?
This part of the brain is responsible for body temperature and homeostasis.
What is the hypothalamus?
This neuroimaging technique uses magnets to measure blood flow in the brain.
What is fMRI?
This neurotransmitter is associated with helping appetite, sleep, and memory.
What is serotonin?
This lobe houses the Wernicke's Area.
What is the temporal lobe?
This type of neuron sends messages from the brain to the appropriate muscles and parts of the body.
What is a motor neuron?
This structure is the outmost layer of gray matter making up the superficial aspect of the cerebrum.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Many psychologists became interested in the differences between cerebral hemispheres when these operations were tried on epileptics.
What is split brain?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for Alzheimer's disease.
What is acetylcholine (ACH)?
This lobe houses a structure that recognizes light, motion, and dimensions.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Multiple Sclerosis is caused by a deterioration of this fatty insulation.
What is the myelin sheath?
This structure is involved in the control of visual systems, auditory systems, and body movement.
What is the midbrain?
This neuroimaging technique utilizes a radioactive tracer to measure sugar usage in the brain.
What is PET
These three neurotransmitters that we studied are associated with anxiety.
What is serotonin, norepinephrine, and GABA?
This structure 'splits' the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe.
What is the central sulcus?
The last phase of a firing neuron, where a neuron does what?
What is repolarizes? Would also accept returns to resting potential.
This structure was referenced in a popular late 90s movie where a character stated that this structure was enlarged in alligators, making them abnormally aggressive.
What is the medulla oblongata?
What is a CT?
El Woods famously stated "Exercise gives you [blank] and happy people people just don't shoot their husbands"
What are endorphins?