The things that connects the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the brain stem?
100
The part of the brain that regulates hearing, memory, emotion, language, and learning.
What is the temporal lobe?
100
The part of the brain that processes information related to vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
100
A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
100
Neurotransmitter that is associated with pleasurable sensations.
What is dopamine?
200
The part of the brain that regulates decision making, problem solving, control of purposeful behavior, consciousness, and emotion.
What is the frontal lobe?
200
The part of the brain that coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, resulting in smooth, balanced muscular activity.
What is the cerebellum?
200
A region of the forebrain below the thalamus that coordinates both the autonomic nervous system and the activity of the pituitary, controlling body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other homeostatic systems, and involved in sleep and emotional activity.
What is a hypothalamus?
200
The extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscles or glands.
What is an axon?
200
Neurotransmitter that is associated with moods and emotional states.
What is serotonin?
300
The area of the brain that relay motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex.
What is thalamus?
300
The part of the brainstem that links the medulla oblongata and the thalamus.
What are pons?
300
The part of the brain that is involved in carrying out and regulating life sustaining functions such as breathing, swallowing and heart rate.
What is the medulla?
300
A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next
What is a myelin sheath?
300
Neurotransmitter that is associated with sleep.
What is GABA?
400
A thick band of nerve fibers that divides the cerebrum into left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
400
The part of the brain that is associated mainly with memory, in particular long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
400
The part of the brain that processes sensory information from the body.
What is the paruetal lobe?
400
The bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body.
What is a dendrite?
400
Neurotransmitter that is involved in pain perception.
What is endorphins?
500
The region of the brain that contains motor neurons involved in the control of speech.
What is the Broca's Area?
500
The region of the brain that is important in language development.
What is the Wernicke's Area?
500
The part of the brain that acts as a sort of relay station for auditory and visual information.
What is the midbrain?
500
A somewhat enlarged, often club-shaped endings by which axons make synaptic contacts with other nerve cells or with effector cells?
What is a axon terminal?
500
Neurotransmitter that is involved in attention, memory, learning, and general intellectual functioning.