Nervous System
The term for the basic unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
The four lobes are in which part of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system?
This neurotransmitter is released during a pleasurable activity.
What is dopamine?
This part of the nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This lobe is important for cognitive functions and control of voluntary movement or activity.
What is the frontal lobe?
Addiction to smoking, alcohol, heroin, methamphetamine are all examples of what kind of addiction.
What is substance abuse?
The junction between two nerve cells where impulses pass.
What is a synapse?
This lobe is primarily responsible for vision?
What is the occipital lobe?
A second category of addiction, this is a set of behaviors that one becomes dependent on and begins to crave throughout their daily life.
What is behavioral need?
The nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
This lobe processes memories, integrating them with sensations of taste, sound, sight and touch.
What is temporal lobe?
This structure in the brain is what allows people to remember that a certain behavior is pleasurable for them.
What is the hippocampus?
The term for cells in the nervous system that are not neurons.
What is a glial cell?
This lobe processes information about temperature, taste, touch and movement
What is the parietal lobe?
Sometimes referred to as the pleasure system of the brain, this site revolves around a reward system through the release of dopamine.
What is the nucleus accumbens?