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This famous case study examined frontal lobe damage and personality change after brain injury.
Phineas Gage
Legal in some states, can alleviate pain & muscle soreness in MS.
What is marijuana?
The junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron.
What is a synapse?
Consists of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system.
Random error in gene replication
Mutation
This SYSTEM is located mostly the in the forebrain & is responsible for us laughing at a joke and emotions (Contains amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus)
Can cause a rush of euphoria, confidence, and energy, but also cause cardiovascular stress and paranoia. Highly addictive
What is cocaine?
These cells support, nourish, and protect neurons- may play a role in learning.
Glial cells
The Peripheral Nervous System consists of these 2 divisions.
Somatic & Autonomic
The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
Evolutionary psychology
Patients in a vegetative state show us that we don't need a conscious mind to orchestrate our heart's pumping and lungs' breathing. This part of the brain does that for us.
This term describes the diminishing effect of a drug with regular use of the same does.
What is tolerance?
Refers to the term for the time shortly after a neuron fires and before it fires again.
What is refractory period?
These neurons carry incoming information from the body's tissues and sensory receptors to the brain and the spinal cord.
Sensory (afferent) neurons
The complete instructions for making an organism
What is a genome
This part of the brain covers the cerebrum (like bark on a tree) & allows large amounts of information to be processed by the nerve cells. It makes up half of your brain's total mass.
Cerebral cortex
What are barbitutates?
This substance affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal. An undersupply is linked to depression.
What is Serotonin?
Division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy.
What is the sympathetic nervous system
Study of molecular mechanisms by which environments can influence genetic expressions (without a DNA change)
Epigenetics
These are the 4 sections (lobes) of the brain.
Parietal, Temporal, Occipital, and Frontal
A famous chemist accidentally created and ingested this drug and experienced a stream of pictures with intense shapes and wild colors.
LSD
This substance is involved in pain perception and immune response. An oversupply can lead to chronic pain.
What is Substance P
Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system might cause a decrease in this action.
What is a decrease in heart rate.
Adoptive parents are least likely to influence the ________ of their adopted children. (Personality, Religious beliefs, or attitude)
Personality