Brain Structures
This limbic structure is responsible for emotional feelings, particularly for anger and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
This is what the brain and spinal cord are called.
What is the central nervous system?
The fatty outer layer of the axon that allows an electrical impulse to speed along it; breakdown of this causes multiple sclerosis.
What is the myelin sheath?
The hormone that promotes social bonding and the feeling of love and affection.
What is oxytocin?
This MVP basketball player also once won an Oscar.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
This area of the brain stem is responsible for heartbeat and respiration.
What is the medulla?
The division of the nervous system that controls functions of the body we don't intentionally control, like blood pressure, digestion, and arousal.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
What are dendrites?
An acronym-based inhibitory neurotransmitter responsible for relaxation and sleep.
What is GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid)?
This school subject is named for a Greek roots that mean "spirit" or "soul" and "study."
What is psychology?
This lobe of the brain contains the motor cortex and is responsible for executive function skills like goal setting, planning, and foreseeing consequences.
What is the frontal lobe?
These cells surround neurons and provide nutrients and structural support.
What are glial cells?
When a receiving neuron doesn't absorb all of a neurotransmitter, the sending neuron often reabsorbs it in a process called
What is reuptake?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for feelings of pleasure and contribute to reward and addiction processes.
What is dopamine?
The longest recorded flight of a chicken.
What is 13 seconds?
The only sense that is NOT routed through the thalamus and, because of its brain location, is closely tied to memory.
What is smell?
This division of the nervous system is responsible for jumpstarting our fight-or-flight response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Chemicals released from the terminal buttons of a neuron that excite the next neuron into firing are called
What are excitatory neurotransmitters?
The hormone responsible for feelings of hunger.
What is ghrelin?
Name all of SHS's administrative team.
Who are Mr. Johansen, Mrs. Stumo, Mrs. Fredriksen, Mr. Loveland, and Mr. Taylor?
This limbic area is responsible for eating, temperature regulation, sexual drives, and fight-or-flight arousal.
What is the hypothalamus?
Some impulses don't go all the way to the brain, but are processed in the spinal cord due to a phenomenon called the
What is reflex arc?
This is the space between neurons (because they don't actually touch!).
What is the synapse?
This neurotransmitter, linked with the development of Alzheimer's disease, is associated with movement and memory.
What is acetylcholine?
Miss Taylor Alison Swift's birthday.
What is December 13, 1989?