Neurons
What is the myelin sheath?
What is serotonin?
Part of the brain that controls planning and mental processes.
What is frontal lobe?
Brain stage of all newborns.
What is primative brain?
What people are called when they are considered artistic and creative.
What is right-brained?
Function of the cell body.
What is generate energy for the cell?
Define neurotransmitter.
What is a chemical messenger that carries signals between neurons?
Part of the brain responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
The second stage of rapid brain development (when is it?)
What is puberty?
Why do brains "crinkle up"
What is to make space for the creation of more neurons?
Gap between neurons where neurotransmitters pass?
What is synaptic gap?
The neurotransmitter responsible for muscle action, learning, and memory.
What is acetycholine?
Part of the brain responsible for long term memory.
What is Hippocampus?
What do babies have the easiest time recognizing?
What is faces?
The average weight of the human brain
The two types of nervous systems.
What are the central and peripheral nervous systems?
The neurotransmitter responsible for fight or flight.
What is norepinephrine?
Part of brain responsible for auditory processing.
What is Temporal lobe?
Most important element for brain development (what is needed the most for growth?)
What is sleep?
Function of the cerebrospinal fluid?
What is to create a protective layer between the brain and skull, preventing both physical injury and illness?
What is 100 billion?
The function of an anti-depressant (SSRI)
What is increase serotonin in the brain by blocking the reabsorption of serotonin into nerve cells (more serotonin in synapse) ?
The function of the parietal lobe.
What is temperature, touch, and taste?
Type of study to analyze brain development?
What is an EEG?
What makes up most of the brain? (protein, fat, water, steroids)
Fat