Brain Parts
Controls vital reflexes.Regulation of breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.
What is Medulla?
Lobe involved planning actions and social and emotional behavior.Gives one self-awareness.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
The largest part of the neuron that powers the neuron.
What is the cell body or soma.
This part of the brain is responsible for the formation of long term memories and encoding information into our memory systems.
What is the hippocampus.
A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron where the neuron activates and expels is charge is called the
What is Action Potential.
The brain can repair itself and create/repair neural pathways that have been damaged, the brain is not set in stone.
What is Neural Plasticity?
Lobe at the upper middle of the cerebrum.Contains that area where feeling sensations are processed.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
The largest part of the neuron
What is the axon.
This part of the brain deals with the three F's. Feeding, Fighting, and F****ng.
What is the hypothalamus.
The point at which a neuron transfers an impulse to another cell
What is the synapse.
Area of the brain most involved in balance and posture
What cerebellum?
Lobe at the lower sides of the cerebrum.Contains areas important to hearing and understanding speech.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Branched extensions that receive impulses
What is the dendrites.
This part of the brain allows the transference of information between the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum.
An undersupply of serotonin is most closely linked to
What is depression.
Like a switchboard for information about all senses except smell.
What is the thalamus?
Lobe at the back of cerebrum.Contains areas important to vision.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Insulating membrane that sometimes surrounds the axons
What is the myelin sheath.
The case of Phineas Gage showed that the frontal lobe is mostly like where ______ of a person resides.
What is personality/decision making.
The concept that a neuron cannot store or use half of its charge but instead when it goes through the action potential uses all of its energy.
What is All or None Principle.
Part of the brain involved in fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
Small strip of parietal lobe that controls sensation of touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.
What is the Sensory Cortex?
Three types of neurons
What is motor, inter, and sensory.
This part of the brain is responsible for the ability to speak a language.
What is Broca's area.
Reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron is called
What is the Reuptake.