Records the waves of electrical activity in the brain
What is EEG?
100
Involves speaking, muscle movements, and making plans and judgements. damage can alter personality and remove one's inhibitors; Phineas Gage.
What are the frontal lobes?
100
Produces the most basic and primitive drives, emotions, and behaviors including: fear, rage, tranquility, hunger, thirst, pleasure, and sexual responses. Composed of three parts: hypothalamus, amygdala, and hippocampus.
What is the limbic system
100
Branched projections of a neuron that act to conduct the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body
What is a dendrite?
100
Thought to be associated with depression. One of the words in SSRI
Serotonin
200
X-ray photographs from different angles, helping to reveal brain damage
What is a CAT scan?
200
Controls voluntary movements. stimulation to various parts makes different parts of the body move. Left hemisphere controls right side and vice versa.
What is the motor cortex?
200
This area also has a major role in the storing of long-term memories and learning.
What is the hippocampus?
200
The largest part of the neuron. transmits action potential. responsible for sending messages.
What is the axon?
200
Neurotransmitter also known as (nor)adrenaline. released by neurons in the sympathetic nervous system onto organs such as the heart, digestive organs, and the lungs. Can be excitatory or inhibitory, help the body respond to stressful situations.
What is norepinephrine?
300
Using magnetic fields and radio waves- different brain areas light up as we perform various tasks
What is an fMRI?
300
Concerned with perception of stimuli such as touch, pressure, temperature and pain
What are the temporal lobes?
300
Controls language expression-involved in muscle movements that impact speech. Damage means a person struggles to form words while being able to understand them.
What is Broca's area?
300
Protects the axon. Helps send messages faster. Wears away with age.
What is the myelin sheath?
300
Neurotransmitter that's believed to be associated with the pain sense, mood, and sleep. Too little of this is related to the onset of depression and suicidal tendency.
What is serotonin?
400
Uses radiation, or nuclear medicine imaging, to produce 3-dimensional, color images of the functional processes within the human body
What is a PET scan?
400
Receives visual information, damage could cause blindness
What are the occipital lobes?
400
A major controlling center, including: body temp, hunger, menstrual cycle, water balance, and the autonomic nervous system.
What is hypothalamus?
400
Brain chemicals that communicate information throughout our brain and body. Relay signals between nerve cells.
What is a neurotransmitter?
400
Neurotransmitter who's effects are largely inhibitory. Degeneration in neurons that produce this causes Parkinson's disease. Excess production is related to the onset of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
500
Whose brain was sliced into hundreds of slices (it took 53 hours) after he died in 2008.
Who is HM?
500
Ultimate control and info processing center. Covered with interconnected cerebral cells that are guided, protected and nourished by glial cells
What is the cerebral cortex?
500
Controls language reception, comprehension and expression. Damage means that people can only speak meaningless words.
What is Wernike's area?
500
Neurotransmitters travel across this. It is the gap between neurons. Prevents misfiring signals