Parts of the brain
Part of the brain that regulates memory, hunger, and body temp
located in the parietal lobe region
What is the hypothalamus?
Small, supportive cells, and control immune function in the brain
Central nervous system
What are Microglia?
The central nervous system is made up of these two parts
What is the brain and spinal cord?
When a blood clot or broken vessel prevents blood from getting to the brain
What is a stroke?
Organ that contains mechanoreceptors to detect sound vibrations
What is the ear?
Processes learning and is known as the "memory center"
Located under the thalamus
What is the hippocampus?
Make cerebrospinal fluid
Central nervous system
What are ependymal cells?
The four lobes of the brain
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes?
What is epilepsy?
Organ that contains photoreceptors that detect light
What are the eyes?
Processes/regulates emotions & highly sensitive
Found in the temporal lobe
What is the amygdala?
Form myelin sheaths
Central nervous system
What are oligodendrocytes?
A gap between neurons
What is a synapse?
Disease in the brain that slowly damages your memory, thinking, learning and organizing skills.
What is Alzheimer's?
The largest human organ that contains thermo receptors to allow us to sense touch, temperature, and pain
What is the skin?
Regulates heartbeat, respiration, and blood pressure. Found in the brain stem
What is the medulla oblongata?
Peripheral Nervous system
What are Schwann Cells?
A bundle of fibers that transmit info throughout the body
What are nerves?
What is Parkinson's?
Organ that contains receptors to detect chemicals in food
What is the tongue?
Produces speech and can cause ____ aphasia if damaged
located in the frontal lobe
What is the Broca's area?
Star shaped cells that make up the blood-brain barrier and make new synapses
Central nervous system
What are astrocytes?
The neurotransmitter known as the "feel good hormone," that contributes to motivation and satisfaction
What is dopamine?
A disease that occurs when there's damage to the brain areas that control muscle movement or when those areas don't develop properly.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
What is the nose?