Brain Structure
This area of the brain is responsible for coordinate muscle movements, maintain posture, and balance.
Cerebellum
acts as the control center for the function of the heart and lungs. breathing, sneezing, and swallowing.
Medulla
What is Acetylcholine mainly responsible for?
muscles and memory
part of your nervous system that controls involuntary actions such has HR and BP
Autonomic
scan uses a radioactive drug (tracer) to show both normal and abnormal metabolic activity
PET
Lies in the left frontal lobe. Speech production
Broca's area
connects the left and right hemispheres
Corpus Callosum
plays a role in how people experience anxiety, fear, and stress
GABA
parts of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord
PNS
a test that detects electrical activity in your brain using small, metal discs (electrodes) attached to your scalp
EEG
Lies in the left temporal lobe. Speech Comprehension
Wernicke's area
relays information about motor function, sensation, eye movement, hearing, taste, between the cerebellum and cerebrum. Also plays a role in sleep
Pons
A chemical that blocks a neurotransmitter from being absorbed, thus blocking its effects is a(n):
Antagonist
the voluntary control of the body movements via the use of skeletal muscles
Somatic
uses a large magnet and radio waves
MRI
Master control of the autonomic system: hunger, thirst, sleep, and sexual response, body temperature, blood pressure, emotions, and secretion of hormones.
Hypothalamus
Network of nerves that run through the brainstem. Consciousness and arousal
Reticular formation
motor control, motivation, reward
Dopamine
predominates in quiet “rest and digest” conditions
Parasympathetics
A technique for revealing blood flow
fMRI
Serves as a relay station for almost all information that comes and goes to the cortex. Plays a role in pain sensation, attention, alertness and memory.
Thalamus
role in receiving and integrating sensory information, particularly visual and auditory input
midbrain
A chemical that mimics or enhances the effect of a neurotransmitter:
Agonist
system drives the “fight or flight” response
sympathetic
a series of x-ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by computer into a composite representation of a slice through the body
CT scan