the brain is composed of two interconnected spheres or lobes and is the seat of higher level thinking.
What is Cerebral hemisphere?
Is where most higher order and abstract thoughts are processed.
What is processed in the neocortex?
Section involving the flight or fight response.
What does the brain stem involve?
Part of the brain with 2 hemispheres.
What is the neocortex?
Called the neuron spike point regulating the transmission of stimuli to the brain.
What is Sensory gating?
Processes emotions and memory.
What does the limbic system process?
Includes the hippocampus and amygdala.
What is part of the limbic system?
Occurs because of intimidation and fear.
What is downshifting?
Concerns the property of neural circuitry to potentially acquire nearly any function.
What is Neural Plasticity?
Controls breathing and digestion.
What does the Medulla control?
The part of the brain involved with experiencing emotions?
What is the amygdala?
Another name for the brain stem.
What is the reptilian brain?
Any of the usually branching protoplasmic processes that conduct impulses towards the body of a nerve cell.
What is Dendrite?
controls body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other systems, and involved in sleep and emotional activity.
What does the Hypothalamus
control?
The youngest part of the brain.
What is the neocortex?
Another name for the neocortex.
What is the cerebral cortex?
The highly wrinkled outer layer of the cerebrum and cerebellum(fore-brain); grey matter.
What is the Cortex?
Coordinates sensory input with muscle movement.
What does cerebellum coordinate?
The oldest part of the brain.
what is the brain stem?
The person responsible for the triune brain description.
Who is Dr.Paul Maclean