Neurotransmitters
This neurotransmitter is the feeling pleasure hormone.
What is dopamine?
This section of the brain controls our vital functions such as heart rate and breathing rate.
What is the brainstem?
This lobe of the brain is primarily responsible for sensory input.
What is the parietal lobe?
This imaging technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed images of the brain.
What is an MRI?
This is the name for the teeny tiny gap between neurons.
What is the synapse?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for emotional arousal.
This lobe of the brain is responsible for seeing.
What is the occipital lobe?
This part of the brain is responsible for decision making. Damaging it can lead to increased spontaneity.
What is the frontal lobe?
This imaging technique uses x-rays to create a 3D image of the brain.
What is a CT/CAT scan?
This type of neuron is coated in a fatty substance and goes 150m/s.
What is a myelinated neuron?
This neurotransmitter has a key role in your body's fight or flight response.
What is norepinephrine?
What is the hippocampus?
This structure of the brain acts as bridge between the left and right hemisphere.
What is the corpus callosum?
This type of imaging combines 2 other techniques to create one extremely detailed and informative image.
What is an fMRI?
This is the name for the principle that explains how neurons will always fire at the same intensity no matter what.
What is the all or non principle?
This neurotransmitter keeps us from giving up working out and makes sure we go back for more.
What are endorphins?
This part of the brain helps with our balance and voluntary movement. Think big.
This part of the brain is all about homeostasis (keeping the body balanced and in a chill state)
What is the hypothalamus?
This is the only imaging technique that arguably isn't an image, it's a chart.
What is an electroencephalograph or EEG?
What is -55 mV?
This neurotransmitter is associated with Alzheimer's disease.
What is acetylcholine?
When this part of the brain is damaged, a person will have difficulty comprehending speech.
What is Wernicke's area?
Phineas Gage got a pipe through this lobe of his brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
This brain imaging technique combines CT scans and radioactive tracers to produce 3D images of brain activity.
What is a PET scan?
This part of the neuron releases neurotransmitters.
What is the nerve ending?