The Nervous System
What are the two main nervous systems?
What is the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
This is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain?
What is GABA
This organ is the central organ of the nervous system
What is the Brain
REM stands for what?
What is Rapid Eye Movement
What is our sense that is responsible for our sense of position regarding our body and its parts
What is Kinesthesia
The Central Nervous System controls which part of our bodies?
What is the Brain and the Spinal Cord
What is a type of depressant?
What is Alcohol
Which lobe of the brain is located at the top and back of the brain?
What is the Parietal Lobe
What sleep disorder consists of lack of sleep and/or inability to maintain sleep.
What is Insomnia
Which sensation is the ONLY SENSATION that is not first processed by the thalamus
Olfactory cortex
This Nervous System is uncontrollable and controls your heart rate, digests food, and move organs.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System
What are the chemicals in drugs called that bind and activate receptors in dendrites, thus providing the associated feeling
What is an Agonists
Which part of the brain coordinates voluntary muscle movements, balance, and motor skills and contributes functions like attention and language?
What is the Cerebellum
Which 2 stages of sleep are the most important in terms of long term health and mood stability?
What is NREM-3 and REM.
What are the 6 types of taste?
What is Salty, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, Umami (Savory), Oleogustus (fatty)
This Nervous System enables voluntary movements through motor neurons.
What is the Somatic Nervous System
What are the 5 main parts of a Neuron?
What is the Dendrites, Soma, Axons, Myelin, Synapses
This scientist discovered that the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for controlling language expression.
Who is Paul Broca
What is our internal 24-hour bodily clock called?
What is our Circadian Rhythm
What is an experience of sensation in which one system of sensation through another?
What is Synesthesia
Which nervous system is responsible for slowing your heartbeat, lowering your blood sugar, and calms your overall being called?
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System
This hormone is responsible for stimulating appetite, increase food intake, and promote fat storage.
What is Ghrelin
What is the neuroimaging technique that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow, which can show which parts of the brain are responsible for certain tasks.
What is fMRI
Which cortex of the brain remains active during sleep?
What is the Motor Cortex?
Who is the scientist who helped define the difference thresholds
Who is Ernest Weber