Neurotransmitters
This Chemical is involved with our perception of Pain.
What is Substance P?
The branch-like structures that receive messages from other neurons.
What are Dendrites?
what is the nervous system?
The left hemisphere is primarily responsible for this type of processing.
What Hemisphere is responsible for Language, logic, and analytical thinking?
This chemical is the primary response to fight or flight situations, Increases blood flow and reduces pain response.
This Chemical regulates mood and sleep, Low levels are linked to Depression.
What is Serotonin?
The ____ Is the connection between neurons where they pass chemicals between each other.
What is the Synapse?
The system primarily responsible for releasing chemicals into our blood stream.
What is the Endocrine System?
The Right Hemisphere is more active during these types of tasks.
What is Creativity, spatial awareness, and processing emotion?
What is the main job of hormones in the body?
Sending signals throughout the body via the bloodstream.
The Feeling of "Brain Fog"
What happens when you run out of Neurotransmitters?
This Fatty Insulation covers the Axon and keeps electrical signals from leaking out.
During a stressful situation, which system sends the signal to release adrenaline, and which system actually releases it?
Nervous system sends the signal; endocrine system (adrenal glands) releases the hormone.
When the corpus callosum is cut, what is disrupted?
What is the communication between the two hemispheres?
This “love hormone” plays a role in bonding, trust, and social connection.
What is Oxytocin?
After running a race, you feel euphoric and pain-free. Which neurotransmitter is likely responsible?
What are Endorphins?
This part of the Neuron processes signals and produces an electrical charge.
What is the Soma (Cell Body)?
Which system — nervous or endocrine — works faster, and why?
Nervous system; it uses electrical impulses instead of hormones traveling through the bloodstream.
A person with a severed Corpus Callosum sees something only with their Left Eye, Are they going to be able to tell you what they saw?
No
During stressful situations, this hormone helps the body maintain energy and is involved with Metabolism.
What is Cortisol?
A drug that blocks reuptake of this neurotransmitter is used to treat anxiety and increases calming effects in the brain.
What is GABA?
Explain what happens at the synapse during neural communication.
Neurotransmitters are released from the terminal ends of Axons, cross the synaptic gap, and bind to receptors in the receiving neuron's dendrites.
A student gets nervous before giving a speech — their heart rate increases, and adrenaline is released. Are one or both systems involved?
Both
A person with hemisphere damage struggles to recognize faces (prosopagnosia) but can still speak and understand language. What hemisphere of the brain does this indicate is damaged?
The Right Hemisphere
This Hormone is involved in sustaining a stress response generally after a fight or flight situation.
What is Norepinephrine?