Nervous System
The part of your nervous system that does not include brain and spinal cord.
What is peripheral nervous system?
The space into which the neurotransmitters are released.
The part of the brain associated with vision?
What is the occipital lobe?
Destruction of acetylcholine in the hippocampus is associated with this degenerative disease.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
The hormone your body naturally produces influencing sleep.
What is melatonin?
Diminished sensitivity to smells in a room
What is sensory adaptation?
The part of your nervous system responsible for voluntary moment.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The type of neuron that relay information from the environment toward the brain.
What are sensory neurons?
The part of the brain responsible for breathing and heart rate.
What is the brain stem (or medulla)?
Disease that involves destruction of myelin sheath, causing impaired mobility, paralysis, and pain.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
The name for sleep walking
What is somnambulism?
This theory explains how we control pain
What is the gate-control theory?
The part of your nervous system that calms you down after a stressful event is over.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
A neurotransmitter associated with the reward centers of the brain.
What is dopamine?
The part of the brain that "talks to" the endocrine system.
What is the pituitary gland?
Damage to part of the brain that results in jumbled speech.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
This sleep stage is associated with paradoxical sleep
What is REM sleep?
This is the process of converting sensory input into neural signals.
What is transduction?
What is sympathetic nervous system?
When a neuron must rest and reset before it can send another action potential.
What is the refractory period?
The part of the brain that involves emotions, memory and the pleasure center.
What is the limbic system?
The brain structure that controls the pituitary gland.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is used to track brain waves
What is an EEG?
This tells you the loudness of sound
What is amplitude?
Contains the involuntary organs
What is the autonomic nervous system?
What are inhibitory neurotransmitters?
The part of the brain that, if damaged, will result in the inability to wake up.
What is the reticular formation?
A hormone produced in your stomach that makes you feel hunger.
What is ghrelin?
Dreams are the brain's way of making sense of random neural activity.
What is activation synthesis theory?
Name two color theories
What is the opponent process theory & trichromatic theory?