Brain Stuff
Outer layer of the brain
What is the cerebral cortex?
Chemicals used to send messages across synapses.
What are neurotransmitters?
Where genes are found, composed of deoxyribonucleic acid
What are chromosomes?
Father's genetic contribution to creating a female offspring.
What is an x chromosome?
The electroencephalogram (EEG) measures this type of brain activity.
What is electrical?
The largest part of the brain.
What is the cerebrum?
Transmits messages between the brain and the muscles and glands.
What is the spinal cord?
Transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
Psychological disorders that can be inherited.
What area alcoholism, schizophrenia, anxiety and depression?
Two main parts of the central nervous system.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
Number of lobes in each hemisphere of the brain.
What is 4?
The location of synapses
What is the area between the axons of one neuron and the dendrites of another?
Number of pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cell?
What is 23?
Studies that evaluate people who are related to try to determine the roles of heredity and environment.
What are kinship studies?
Used by researchers to diagnose certain kinds of psychological disorders.
What is an electroencephalogram (EEG)?
Portion of the brain that controls many vital, involuntary functions.
What is the hindbrain?
Neurotransmitters which help control movement
What are acetylcoline and dopamine?
Basic building block of heredity.
What are genes?
Transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
Part of the peripheral nervous system that regulates the body's vital functions
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Brain injuries, brain images created by computers, and effects of electrical stimulation on the brain.
What are ways to study the brain?
It's function is to carry messages AWAY from the neuron's cell body.
What is the axon?
One of the most useful types of studies for showing the influence of heredity and environment
What are twins who have been reared apart?
Number of chromosomes in a normal human cell.
What is 46?
Part of the peripheral nervous system that transmits sensory messages.
What is the somatic nervous system?