The endocrine system
Chemical messengers that flow through the bloodstream.
What are hormones?
This controls automatic survival function.
This regulates emotions and drives.
A recording of the waves of electrical activity across the brains surface measured by the electrodes placed on the scalp
What is an EEG?
This keeps you alive.
What is the hindbrain?
A set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.
What is the endocrine system?
This is the crossover point where nerves from each side of the brain connect with the bodies opposite side.
What is cross - wiring?
This is your sensory control center. It receives info from the senses, except smell, and routes it to the brain regions that deal with information.
What is the thalamus?
Shows brain activity (function) and physical structure
What is an fMRI?
This controls your memories.
What is the midbrain?
Chemical messengers that are fats and are held in the synapse.
What are neurotransmitters?
This is where the spinal cord enters the skull and it regulates heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
These are described as almond shaped clusters that create emotions such as fear and aggression. It is close to the hippocampus.
What is the amygdala?
A non-experimental procedure used to learn about the brain.
What is a case study?
This regulates who one processes and is the center for ones personality. This part is the one we know least about.
What is the forebrain?
Chemical messengers that are slower and are in the bloodstream.
This controls whether one is awake or not. If you remove it one falls into a coma.
What is the reticular activation system?
This processes conscious memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This person's frontal lobe was damaged which resulted in a severe personality change. He lived.
Who is Phineas Gage?
What is L?
This controls other glands and is a pea sized structure in the brain near the hypothalamus.
This enables non-verbal memory or muscle memory. Stores procedural memory and coordinates voluntary movement.
What is the cerebellum?
This controls body maintenance such as homeostasis. It is your reward center. It contains dopamine.
What is the hypothalamus?
This includes stimulating the tissue of the brain.
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