Brain Lobes
Responsible for balance, muscle coordination and posture.
What is the cerebellum?
A nerve cell; a fundamental unit of the nervous system is called a____________.
What is a neuron?
Electrical messages (aka: impulses) are called_________.
What is a action potential?
Responsible for auditory information (hearing) and language comprehension.
What is the temporal lobe?
As an action potential is generated in a neuron, the electrical impulse flows from the _________ to the ____________.
What is from the dendrite to the axon?
What is the name of the organ or cell that acts in response to a stimulus with a bodily movement?
What is Effector
Phineas Gage suffered a traumatic brain injury to his _________ that changed his personality and impulse control.
Wahat is the frontal lobe?
____________is an insulating layer, or sheath that forms around nerves, including those in the brain and spinal cord. It is made up of protein and fatty substances.
What is the myelin sheath?
A junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter____________.
What is a synapse?
Regulates hunger, thirst, sleep, body temperature through the release of hormones.
What is the hypothalamus?
____________are considered chemical substances that are released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, a muscle fiber, or some other structure.
What are neurotransmitters?
________are structures found at synaptic terminals which contain various different types of neurotransmitter.
What are vesicles?
According to the Theory of Hemispheric Specialisation, Damage to the right side of the Brain would result in impairment to __________.
What is difficulties with visual and spacial tasks
A portion of a nerve cell (neuron) that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body is called a ________.
What is a axon
When Sally sees a frog on the floor, she jumps up and runs out into the hallway. List the correct order for the neural messages associated with her actions. (hint think of the 3 pathways in order).
What is sensory (afferent), what is interneuron (association neuron-middle communicator), what is motor neuron (efferent pathway).