CNS
This neurotransmitter is inhibitory and produces a calming effect that helps to slow you down, lowering your heart rate and blood pressure.
GABA
Associates emotions with experiences. Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn.
Amygdala
This lobe is responsible for hearing and memory. Helps you understand the meaning of words and objects
Temporal Lobe
Scanning process that combines many 2-D x-ray images to generate cross sections or 3-D images of the brain
CAT scans (Computerized Axial Tomography)
This lobe is most responsible for your executive function: attention, working memory, self-control and impulse control. It also gives one the ability to process info, make judgments and solve problems.
Frontal Lobe
What is the neurotransmitter glutamate responsible for?
Enhancement of action potentials, learning and memory
Part of the brain that is responsible for: thought, detailed perceptions and complex behavior. Let’s you understand yourself, others and the outside world
Cerebral Cortex
Allows information to flow from left hemisphere to right.
Corpus Callosum
A recording of electrical signals from the brain made by hooking up electrodes to the subjects scalp.
EEG (Electroencephalograph)
Wernicke's area
Neurotransmitters are typically stored in which part of the neuron?
Axon Terminal (Terminal Buttons)
This is the control center for speech production, enabling the articulation of words and ideas through spoken and written language
Broca's Area
Regulates body functions and motivates behavior (warm to cold, circadian rhythm), and controls the pituitary gland
Hypothalamus
PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography)
This is the part of the brain that is also known as the lizard brain. It helps to process and regulate emotion, memory, learning and your sense of smell.
The Limbic System
What is the function of the myelin sheath?
Fatty material that covers the neuron and allows for faster movement of electrical impulses along the axon
This lobe is responsible for spatial reasoning and knowing where you are in space
Parietal Lobe
Balance, motor coordination and motor learning (riding a bike)
Allows you to ride a bike, listen to music, and chat up your friend all at the same time.
Cerebellum
This scan realigns the body's hydrogen atoms so that they all spin along the same axis. Then there is a radio pulse that is sent to the brain and when the atoms eventually return to their original state they release an energy that this machine can pick up and produce an image of the different types of tissue.
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
This produces and releases hormones that regulate bodily functions including growth and sexual development, metabolism, body's response to stress and trauma, regulates body temperature and can release hormones to regulate body temperature.
Pituitary Gland
What is the function of the synapse?
Space between neurons that allows neurons to communicate with one another.
This is responsible for the formation of memories, long-term, short-term and working memory
Hippocampus
Occipital Lobe
This scan measures the very faint magnetic fields that emanate from the head as a result of brain activity. It is the most accurate resolution of the timing of the nerve cell activity.
MEG (Magnetoencephalography)
Responsible for basic functions of survival. Controls heart rate, breathing, swallowing, urination, etc.
Brain Stem