Endocrine System
This part of our brain controls the endocrine system:
Hypothalamus
This part of a neuron receives messages from other neurons:
Dendrites
Describe the process of reuptake:
The neuron that sent the message (a neurotransmitter) takes the message back.
The eye's clear, protective outer layer, covering the pupil and iris:
Cornea
These are the functions of the medulla:
controls heartbeat and breathing
Hormones are distributed via our endocrine system using this:
Our blood stream
This part of a neuron passes the message from one neuron to the next:
Axon
Excitatory
Accommodation
These are the functions of the cerebellum:
processes sensory input, coordinating movement and balance, nonverbal learning and memory
This gland is the "master gland", and controls all the other glands in our endocrine system:
Pituitary Gland
The myelin sheath has this role in the processes of passing a message from one neuron to the next:
It protects the axon so that the message is more efficiently sent
Drugs that block or excite neurotransmitters from firing
Retinal receptors that detect black, white, and gray; very sensitive to movement:
Rods
This is the primary function of the corpus collosum:
Connecting the left and right brain together (split-brain surgery)
This gland controls our sleep-wake cycle:
Pineal - the pineal gland secretes melatonin
A message is passed from one neuron to the next using neurotransmitters
Glutamate is a neurotransmitter that helps us:
Learn - never forget your soulmate
A less common form of hearing loss, caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea
Conduction hearing loss
The portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears; includes the auditory areas:
Temporal Lobes
Messages from the endocrine system and the nervous system are different in that:
The nervous system messages are fast (using an electrical messaging system between neurons) and the endocrine system is slow using hormones releasing into our blood stream
A breakdown of the myelin sheath will lead to this disease:
Multiple sclerosis
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that has this effect on us:
It is the reward pathway, gives us good feelings
Our sense of body movement and position that enables our sense of balance:
Vestibular sense
Two lima-bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system, linked to our emotions:
Amygdala