Brain Functions
This part of the brain regulates balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
This structure of the brain is the largest and most complex part of the brain
What is the cerebrum?
Drugs that reduce activity of central nervous system
What is Depressants?
body's fast messaging system that allows the body to communicate with itself
what is the nervous system
junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and dendrite or cell body. Called the synaptic gap
What is synapse
This part of the brain regulates sight.
What is the occipital lobe?
This structure of the brain is also known as the "little brain"
What is the cerebellum?
The result of drug use where more and more drug is needed to achieve the same effect is known as
Addiction
What is a busy, branching extension coming out of the soma that receive and integrate messages from other neurons
What is the dendrite?
causes contraction of skeletal muscles, helps regulate heart muscles and promotes arousal in the brain
What is Acetylcholine?
This part of the brain is important for memory and learning
What is the Hippocampus?
This structure of the brain is a wide bundle of nerve fibers that connects the two cerebral hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
What drug can cause shrinkage, chance the structure of the brain, and causes slow neural processing
What is alcohol
Tissue that encaes axons of some neurons speeding up transmission. Made up by Glial cells
What is the Myelin sheath?
Learning and memory, sensory and motor functions
what is the Glutamate?
This part of the brain receives messages from sense organs such as touch, sight, sound, smell...
What is the parietal lobe?
This structure of the brain is a "super highway" of nervous tissue that connects the brain to the backbone and the rest of the body.
What is the spinal cord?
Often painful and dangerous effects of stopping a drug
What is withdrawl
The neuron extensions that passes neural impulses from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands
What is the axon.
Modulation of pain
Substance P
This part of your brain regulates higher-level thinking and executive function skills. It is not fully developed until your early 20s.
What is the frontal lobe?
(or What is the prefrontal cortex?)
What are the hippocampus and the amygdala?
Enhances how neurotransmitters work
Stimulants
Basic Building block of the nervous system and transmit information
What is the neuron?
Fight or flight- increases blood sugar supply by increasing glucose production, increases heart rate, and respiration.
What is Adrenaline