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Neurons Who knew
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A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing and language.

Temporal Lobe

100

This part of your brain helps regulate emotions such as fear, anger, and pleasure. This area is a major component when discussing what changes in the brain when drugs are involved

Amygdala

100

These type of neurons carry instructions from the central nervous system outward (Thus, they are efferent) to the body’s muscles and glands.  

Motor Neurons

100

What do we call the large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemisphere

Corpus Callosum

100

The neuron extension that passes messages though its branches to other neuron or to muscles or glands

Axon

200

An area at the back of each cerebral hemisphere that is the primary receiving area for visual information.

Occipital Lobe

200

Language Comprehension, or where Wernicke's area is located

Temporal Lobe

200

Theses types of Neurons carry messages from the body’s tissues and sensory receptors inward (thus, they are afferent) to the brain and spinal cord for processing.  

Sensory Neurons

200

This pseudoscience psychological theory is based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.

Phrenology

200

A neuron’s often bushy, branching extensions that receive and integrate messages. Conducting impulses toward the cell body.

Dendrites

300

Located in the upper back half of the brain. Receives and processes sensory information from the body and skin senses as well as other sensory areas in the brain.

Parietal Lobe

300

The “little brain” at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input, coordinating movement output and balance, enable nonverbal learning and memory.

Cerebellum

300

The brain and spinal cord make this up, it is your body's decision-maker

Central Nervous System

300

Nerves that run up and down the length of the back and transmit most messages between the body and brain

Spinal Cord

300

The part of a neuron that contains the nucleus; the cell’s life-support center

Cell Body

400

Connects the spinal cord to the remainder of the brain and contains many ascending and descending nerve tracts. Consists of the medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrain.

Spinal Cord

400

An extension of the spinal cord into the skull that coordinates heart rate, circulation, and respiration. (an extension of the spinal cord)

Medulla


400
  • Between the sensory input and motor output, information is processed via these types of neurons located in the spinal cord

interneurons

400

is located in the left hemisphere in the frontal lobe. This area is responsible for speech production and language comprehension. Damage to this area can result a condition. This is a condition in which you know what you want to say, but when you speak it you have trouble finding the words

Broca's Area

400

These Cells in the nervous system support, nourish and protect neurons; they also play a role in learning, thinking, and memory.  

Glial Cells

500

Largest and longest lobe in each hemisphere. Association areas are involved with planning, problem-solving, personality, decision making, controlling emotions and speech production

Frontal Lobe

500

A nerve network that travels through the brainstem into the thalamus and plays an important role in controlling arousal. This determines whether you wake up at night 

Reticular Formation

500

The peripheral nervous system has two main components-

Somatic & Autonomic

Somatic- controls the body (skeletal_

Autonomic- controls our glands and organ muscles

500

is a non-invasive brain imaging technique that measures brain activity by tracking blood flow changes. It's similar to an MRI scan, but instead of looking at the physical structure of the brain, this examines how different parts of the brain function.

FMRI- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

500

Diseases such as multiple sclerosis result from damage to the sheath of the nerve cell in the brain- this sheath is called?

Myelin Sheath

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