Brain Structure
Teenagers often struggle making decisions and planning. This impairment occurs because this area of your brain is not fully developed until your twenties.
What is the frontal lobe?
These type of neurons receive communication from the environment and send them towards the central nervous system
What are sensory neurons?
Origin: Pancreas
Target: Body Cells
Job: Decrease blood glucose levels
What is insulin?
This structure is the outermost protective covering of the eye and also helps bend light as it initially enters the eye.
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The primary visual cortex is located in the part of the cerebral cortex.
What is the occipital lobe?
This is the process that occurs inside of the neuron that helps generate an electrical signal.
What is an action potential?
Origin: Pituitary
Target: Thyroid
Job: Regulate thyroid
What is thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)?
These are the types of cells that allow you to see in color.
What are cone cells?
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This part of the brain is responsible for controlling balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This is the name of the "gap" that neurotransmitters must pass through in order to continue an action potential.
What is the "synapse"?
Origin: Pituitary
Target: Muscles and Liver
Job: Builds body tissues
What is Growth Hormone (GH)?
This flat tissue is held up in the posterior region of the eye by the vitreous humor and serves as the photoreceptive portion of the eye.
What is the retina?
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This part of the brain is responsible for controlling hearing.
What is the temporal lobe?
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that affects THIS structure of a neuron, dramatically disrupting the speed that an action potential through the axon.
What is the myelin sheath?
Origin: Pituitary
Target: Testes
Job: Maturation of sperm cells; synergistic with LH
What is Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH)?
Similar to the synapses in neurons, these structures in the eye are not actually structures, rather "spaces".
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This is a set of structures in the brain that deal with emotions and memory. It regulates autonomic or endocrine function in response to emotional stimuli and also is involved in reinforcing behavior.
What is the limbic system?
During this stage of an action potential, the potassium channels open allowing potassium to rush out of the axon.
What is repolarization?
Origin: Pituitary
Target: Adrenal glands
Job: Stimulate fight or flight
What is *adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)?
This (these) structures are responsible for controlling pupillary reflexes.
What is the iris or ciliary body?
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