Brain Anatomy
What lobe is responsible for decision-making, planning, and voluntary movement?
What is the Frontal Lobe?
What is the tiny gap between two neurons where neurotransmitters are released
What is a synapse?
This progressive disease is linked to memory loss
What is Alzheimers disease
Sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, what are they?
Senses
What stage of sleep involves Rapid Eye Movement?
REM
Name the characteristics of the Right Cerebral Hemisphere
What is visual and intuitive
These chemicals, like dopamine and serotonin, transmit signals across the synapse
What are neurotransmitters?
Caused by a lack of dopamine-producing neurons, leads to tremors and rigidity
What is Parkinson's disease
What lobe is responsible for sight?
The occipital lobe
The hippocampus plays a key role in this to store...
Memory
Name the 4 Lobes
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes?
What is the "automatic nervous system" responsible for?
Breathing, digesting, heartbeats
What is epilepsy?
Recurring seizures caused by bursts of electrical activity in the brain
What sends signals through the brain and is part of the nervous system
The spinal cord
What lobe is responsible for fight or flight?
The amygdala
What part of the brain regulates hunger, thirst, body temperature?
What is the hypothalamus?
What are the nerves and functions that happen outside of the brain and spinal cord?
The peripheral nervous system
What is an inherited disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain
Huntington's disease
Located in this lobe, processes touch, temperature, and pain. What lobe is this?
The parietal lobe
Memory is the set of processes used to..
(page 248 of textbook)
Encode, store, and retreive
What is the "emotional central" area of the brain?
What is the amygdala?
What is the central nervous system made up of
The brain and spinal cord
Henry Gustav Molaison (H. M.) had brain surgery for which of the following reasons?
To alleviate severe epilepsy
One controls voluntary movement, and the other regulates involuntary functions. What are these systems called?
What are the somatic and autonomic nervous systems?
What device are memory aids that help us organize information for encoding
Mnemonic devices