Brain Imaging Techniques
This type of brain imaging shows brain waves commonly used for sleep and seizures
What is EEG?
This part of the nerve cell is the main structure which is the cell's support center.
What is the cell body?
This part of the brain is needed for breathing, sleeping, and balance
What is hindbrain?
This neurotransmitter helps control arousal and alertness.
What is norepinephrine?
These neurons carry messages from the central nervous system out to the body's muscles.
What are motor neurons?
This brain imaging technique shows blood flow and chemical activity.
What is a PET Scan?
This part of the nerve cell receives messages from other cells.
What are dendrites?
What does the midbrain do?
What is controls movement, enables hearing and seeing?
This neurotransmitter affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal.
What is serotonin?
This system calms the body, conserves energy, and manages routine functions
What is parasympathetic nervous system?
This brain imaging technique is an x-ray that shows the structure of the brain.
What is a CT Scan?
This part of the nerve cell passes messages away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
What does the medulla do?
What is control breathing and heartbeat?
This neurotransmitter affects movement, learning, attention, and emotion.
What is dopamine?
What does CNS stand for?
What is the central nervous system?
This type of brain imaging technique is unsurpassed in anatomical detail.
What is an MRI?
This part of the nerve cell helps speed up neural impulses.
What is the myelin sheath?
Which part of our brain is the emotion processing part?
What is the amygdala?
This neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory.
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
This nervous system is the body's "fight-or-flight" response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This brain imaging maps brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow and oxygenation
What is fMRI?
This part is a crucial junction where a neuron communicates with another neuron or a target cell
What are synapse?
What does the hippocampus do?
What is controls conscious, explicit memory?
This neurotransmitter is linked to anxiety.
What is GABA?
This is considered our body's link to the outside world?
What is Peripheral Nervous System?