Major Parts of the Brain
The part of the brain just above the spinal cord. It is in charge of survival functions.
What is the Brain Stem?
Lobe responsible for goal-directed functions
What is the frontal lobe?
The drug concentration that gives a desired response.
What is a therapeutic dose?
This location is where neurons connect and neurotransmitters are emitted.
What is the synpase?
The process where a drug moves from the stomach/intestines to blood to the liver, back to blood and heart to the body.
What is absorption?
While not shaped like a bell, this brain region is responsible for the coordination of movement, and relaying information to motor and cognitive functions. Connected to the brain stem.
What is the cerebellum?
Lobe that handles sensory input and association.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
When a high level of drug is used to initiate a response.
What is a loading dose?
This electro-chemical process is the name of how neurons convey information.
What is neural transmission?
This process is the name of getting a drug to where it matters.
What is distribution?
What is crossing the blood-brain barrier?
The largest part of the brain where perception, imagination, thought, judgment, and decisions occur.
Lobe responsible for long-term memory and auditory functions (including the reception and interpretation of speech).
What is the Temporal Lobe?
"Bottom up" brain functioning refers to signals initiated in this brain part.
What is the brain stem?
What is reuptake?
How the body changes the chemical structure of the drug.
What is metabolism?
Its lobes are the Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, and Occipital.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Lobe responsible for vision perception, distorted perceptions, difficulties in writing.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The area of the brain involved in emotions, drive, and memory formation. It includes the amydala and the hippocampus.
What is the Limbic Area?
Location where neurotransmitters are "received" by a new neuron.
What are post-synaptic receptors?
As soon as a drug is taken, the body begins to remove it.
What is elimination?
This connects the two hemispheres of the brain where most information is transmitted between sides of the brain.
What is the corpus collosum?
The part of the brain where the 4 lobes are located.
What is the cerebrum/cerebral cortex?
"Top down" processing refers to functions initiated by this brain part.
What is the cerebral cortex?
Bonus: Double Jeopardy
These are the ions that are primarily used in the nerve chemical/electrical transmission.
Sodium (Na+)
Potassium (K-)
The name for the time it takes for half of a drug to be eliminated.
What is half-life?