area of the left hemisphere that controls speech muscles; damage to this area would result in a person struggling to form words.
What is Broca?
100
coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear; sound waves traveling through the fluid inside trigger nerve impulses.
What is Cochlea?
100
Sleep disorder that involves an interuption in breathing.
What is Sleep Apnea?
100
stored in sacs in the axon terminal; chemical messages that cross over to the next nerve cell.
What is a Nerotransmitter?
100
the light sensitive inner surface of the eye; contains the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin processing visual information.
What is the retina?
200
This hemisphere of the brain controls spatial behavior and artistic efforts.
What is the right hemisphere?
200
hearing or auditory processing occurs in this lobe of the brain.
What is Temporal?
200
sleep disorder that involves the inability to fall asleep, to sleep, or to stay asleep.
What is insomnia?
200
The brain and spinal cord make up this nervous system.
What is the central nervous system?
200
located at the end of a nerve cell and receive messages (incoming chemicals) from other nerve cells.
What are dendrites?
300
Part of the brain that regulates hunger, thirst, sexual behavior, body temperature, and the fight or flight response (the 5f's).
What is the hypothalamus?
300
stretching from the hindbrain through the midbrain and into the forebrain this system is important in the regulation of ALERTNESS and ATTENTION ; if this system is not working well, ADD may result, when this system is completly impaired then the individual is in a coma.
What is the Reticular activity system?
300
these occur during REM sleep most of the time, but they can occur at any stage of sleep.
What are dreams?
300
gap between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the recieving neuron.
What is the synapse?
300
Slows activity of the nervous system; alcholol, valium, xanax.
What is a depressant?
400
Part of the brain linked to emotions; specifically anger and fear.
What is amygdala?
400
this lobe of the brain processes visual information recieved through the eyes.
What is the occipital lobe?
400
Altered state of consciousness that a trained therapist can induce; characterized by heightened suggestability, deep relaxation, and highly focused attention; but it is not sleep.
What is hypnosis?
400
Nerve cell is also called...
What is a neuron?
400
Acts like a drug to reduce pain as well as help transmit messages. "runners high"
What is Endorphins?
500
This lobe of the brain receives and processes messages from from the skin senses, such as warmth, cold, touch, and pain.
What is Parietal
500
Part of the peripheral nervous system that prepares the body for action if something alarms or challenges you.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
sleep disorder which causes a person to fall asleep at unpredictable intervals; this condition is rare and dangerous.
What is narcolepsy?
500
this nervous system includes all nerve cells that send and recieve messeges from all parts of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
500
theory that suggests that only a certian amount of information can be processed by the central nervous system at a time; rubbing or scatching painful areas transmits sensations to the brain that completes with the pain messages for attention.