Vocab Terms
This term refers to a surgical operation where the prefrontal lobe is detached from the rest of the brain.
What is a lobotomy?
What is the Left Hemisphere?
This part of the brain transmits signals away from the cell body.
What is the Axon?
This lobe houses skills such as decision-making, impulse control, and the personality.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
What are Neurotransmitters?
This system is involved in processing emotional responses and memory.
What is the Limbic System?
This part of the brain houses emotions.
What is the amygdala?
This part of the neuron facilitates neural transmission.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
This lobe processes auditory information.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
This nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
This term refers to the brains ability to change or reorganize following a brain injury or surgery.
What is Neuroplasticity?
This part of the brain relays sensory information to the cortex.
What is the Thalamus?
This part of the neuron receives signals from other neurons.
What are the Dendrites?
This lobe of the brain processes sensory information.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This refers to the electrical charge that travels down the axon and releases a neural transmitter.
What is the Action Potential?
This part of the brain is involved in long-term memory formation and storage.
What is the Hippocampus?
This part of the brain controls involuntary functions and is located on the brain stem.
What is the medulla?
This is the gap between two neurons where communication occurs.
What is the Synapse?
This lobe of the brain processes visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This part of the brain is involved in emotional memories.
What is the Amygdala?
This refers to a drug that creates an action potential after it binds to a neuron.
What is an Agonist?
This part of the brain is responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the Cerebellum?
These support and protect neurons.
What are Glial Cells?
The sensory cortex and motor cortex are housed in this lobe.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This nervous system is responsible for "rest and digest."
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?