Neurons
They are the bushy branches that receive information from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
The Central Nervous System consists of these two items.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
This band of fibers in the brain allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other.
What is the corpus callosum?
They are the largest of the four lobes and serve a sort of "executive function"; as human beings we distinguish ourselves in the animal kingdom primarily through this portion of the brain.
What are the frontal lobes
The pea-shaped pair that is the most important part of the brain pertaining to emotion.
What is the amygdala?
It is the long, tube-like portion of a neuron which "fires" messages to other neurons.
What is the axon?
This is the half of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) which deals with voluntary physical movement.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
Scientists have figured out that you can alleviate symptoms associated with this condition by severing the corpus callosum.
What is epilepsy?
They contain the visual cortex at the back of the brain.
What are the occipital lobes?
The ring-like structure involved in transferring information from the working memory into the long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
It is the fatty tissue that covers axons of many neurons.
What is myelin sheathe
The Sympathetic Nervous System and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems are the two branches of this part of the Nervous System.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
Information from the left visual field is processed in this portion of your brain.
What is the right hemisphere? (Also acceptable: What is the right occipital lobe?)
Located at the top of our head, these lobes contain the somatosensory cortex that allows us to process much sensory information, especially touch sensation.
Parietal lobes
The "trapezoidal flap" shaped structure that embodies many functions, including communication between the Central Nervous System and the Endocrine System through the Pituitary.
What is the hypothalamus?
It is the area of connection between two neurons, or the tiny space between two neurons.
What is the synapse?
When you enter a haunted house during Halloween season, you can be sure that this system will be heavily at work as you walk through the suspenseful rooms and corridors.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Information from the right visual field is processed in this portion of your brain.
What is the left hemisphere? (Also acceptable: What is the left occipital lobe?
They are near the ears and contain the auditory cortex, which allows us to process sound information.
Temporal lobes
The steady internal state that the hypothalamus helps retain.
What is homeostasis?
They are the other cells in the nervous system that clean up after neurons.
What are glial cells?
When you are relaxing in bed at the end of a frustrating day in which you received a speeding ticket, chances are this branch of the Autonomic Nervous System is at work.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
This was the split-brain patient's reply when, shown a blown-up graphic of the word "HE*ART," was asked to read out the word he saw.
What is “ART”
They are the "specialty" areas of the cerebral cortex that are devoted to particular tasks, including one that allows us to recognize faces.
What are the association areas?
The prefix "hypo-" in "hypothalamus" means this.
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