This scanning technique uses radioactive glucose to measure the activity levels in different areas of the brain.
What is a PET scan?
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
Start the neuron cell. Receiver cell. absorbs neurotransmitters.
What is a dendrite?
100
chemicals which allow the transmission of signals from one neuron to the next across synapses
What is a neurotransmitter?
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 dif. 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 noradrenaline. 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 MRI?
300
receives auditory info. especially active in schizophrenics while hearing voices
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 info. 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
chemical messengers. how neurons communicate. cause of stop and action.
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. Its the gap between neurons. prevents misfiring signals
What is a synapse?
500
neurotransmitter that's found in the synapses between motor neurons and skeletal muscles, where it's excitatory. A break down in this particular group may begin the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.