Parts of the Brain
Controls biological drives such as fighting and fleeing
What is the Hypothalamus?
The three basic tasks of a neuron
What is receive, carry, and pass on to the next neuron?
A chemical messenger that travels across the synapse from one neuron to the next.
What is a neurotransmitter?
Involved in movement and reward systems.
What is dopamine?
Soma means
What is Body?
Part of limbic system most associated with memory
What is the Hippocampus?
The part of the neuron that receives messages.
What are dendrites?
When a neurotransmitter hits a receptor site, an ion enters the receptor.
What is lock and key?
Involved in mood and sleep.
What is serotonin?
The central nervous system includes...
What are the Brain and Spinal Cord?
Language area involved in speech production
What is the Broca's Area?
The three types of neurons.
What are sensory, motor and interneurons?
Makes the neuron more positive.
What is Excitatory Postsynaptic Potential?
Involved in arousal, mood, and sympathetic nervous system activation.
What is Norepinephrine?
The autonomic system includes which two divisions
What are the Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Divisions?
Structure that works on breathing and heart rate
What is the Medulla?
A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of neuron.
What is action potential?
Elevate pleasure/mood and reduce pain, act by either increasing or decreasing specific neurotransmitter activity, mimic effects of opium based drugs like morphine.
What are endorphins?
Correlated to Alzheimer's disease.
What is Acetylcholine?
Partial or complete inability to articulate ideas or understand language because of brain injury or damage.
What is Aphasia?
Relays sensory information to the cortex
What is the Thalamus?
When a neuron after firing cannot generate another action potential.
What is the refractory period?
Mimics the action of a neurotransmitter.
What is an agonist?
High levels of this neurotransmitter correlate to having schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
Three ways we study the brain are?
What is EEG?
What is MRI?
What is Lesioning?
What is CT Scan?
What is PET?