All About the Neuron
Another name for a neuron.
What is a brain cell or nerve cell?
The weight of a healthy adult brain.
What is around 3 pounds?
The Endocrine System sends messages with empahsis on...
What is duration?
This part of the Nervous System is encased in bone.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Information in your brain travels at this speed.
What is about 268 miles per hour?
The part of the neuron that connects to other cells.
What is a dendrite?
This is the 'Master Gland'.
What is the pituitary gland?
The nervous system sends message with an emphasis on...
What is speed?
At this age, your brain is considered fully developed.
What is 25 years old?
The part of the neuron that send information out of the cell body to other neurons.The 'message cable'.
What is the axon?
The part of the brain that is connected to personality, emotion, rationality.
What is the frontal lobe?
This gland is responsible for adrenaline, our fight and flight responses.
What is the adrenal gland?
This coating of the axon in a neuron helps to speed up electrical messages in the brain.
What is the nyelin sheath?
The connective tissue that holds both hemispheres of the brain together.
What is the corpus callosum?
The part of the neuron at the end of the dendrite that releases the chemical messages?
What is the terminal button?
The cerebellum controls these functions.
What is balance, motor functions, memory, and some language processing?
This is a condition that results from a malfunction of the Pancreas.
What is diabetes?
This system of the nervous system slows down the body after stress.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This percentage of your brain is made up of fat.
What is around 60%?
The chemical messengers that are released by the terminal buttons.
What are neurotransmitters?
The occipital lobes helps with this type of memory.
What is facial recognition?
This gland is also located in the brain and controls much of the Endocrine System.
What is the hypothalamus?
This neurotransmitter is connected to Alzheimer's Disease.
What is Acetylcholine?
Phineas Gage had this are of his brain damaged, but survived with minor alterations to his daily life.
What is the frontal lobe?