Neurotransmitters
Pleasurable NT
What is dopamine?
When a neuron is - 70 charge
What is the resting state?
Two divisions of the central nervous system?
What are the brain and spinal cord?
the 4 lobes
What are frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital?
Master gland
What is the pituitary gland?
Brain scan that shows electrical activity
What is an EEG?
Natural painkiller
What are endorphins?
gap between neurons
What is the synapse?
Part of the nervous system responsible for voluntary motor movements
What is the Somatic nervous system?
Memory processor
What is the hippocampus?
Glands release this slow chemical messenger into the bloodstream
What are hormones?
Brain scan that shows function with radioactive glucose
What is a PET scan?
Excitatory NT
What is Glutamate?
Fatty insulator around the axon that speeds up communication
What is the myelin sheath?
Your body's arousing emergency system
What is the sypathetic NS?
Sensory switchboard
What is the thalamus?
Released by the pancreas
What is insulin?
Lobe of the brain that process all touch sensation
What is the parietal lobe?
NT associated with memory and learning
What is Ach?
When the presynaptic neuron takes back leftover NT
What is reuptake?
This system lowers heart rate, but increase digestion
What is the parasympathetic?
Language speech center
What is Broca's Area?
Hormone that is part of the fight or flight response
What is adrenaline?
Someone who manifests a recessive trait (like blue eyes) must have this type of genotype
What is homozygous?
When a drug binds and imitates a NT
What is an agonist?
What is action potential?
Neurons that run from the body to the brain to carry incoming touch sensation
What are afferent neurons?
Clinical term for any kind of language impairment
What is aphasia?
Part of the brain that connects the nervous system to the endocrine system
What is the hypothalamus?
The brain's ability to recover from injury by reorganizing its connections. Inversely related to age
What is plasticity?