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Neuron
Gross Anatomy
Emotion
100
This structure is also known as the cell body.
What is soma?
100
The two regions of the brain designated left and right.
What are the cerebral hemispheres.
100
The area of the brain most associated with emotion.
What is the lymbic system?
200
Branched projections of a neuron that act to conduct the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells.
What are dendrites?
200
The visual processing center of the brain containing most of the anatomical region of the visual cortex.
What is the occipital lobe?
200
This structure influences behavior and emotional reactions such as anger and fear.
What is the amygadla?
300
The space between two neurons that transmits an electrical or chemical signal to another cell.
What is a synapse?
300
The lobe of the brain that is not seen from the outside.
What is the insular?
300
The connection of these structures with the limbic system helps explain why the sense of smell evokes long-forgotten memories and emotions.
What are the olfactory bulbs?
400
A visual representation of the concept of the body within the brain.
What is the homonculus?
400
The area of the brain which has executive functions that involve the ability to recognize future consequences resulting from current actions, to choose between good and bad actions, override and suppress socially unacceptable responses, and determine similarities and differences between things or events.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
This area helps modify the expression of emotions such as rage and fright.
What is parahypocampal gyrus?
500
A structure that encompasses the axon with a sheath and speeds up the transmission of information.
What is myelin?
500
This brain section plays important roles in integrating sensory information from various parts of the body, knowledge of numbers and their relations, and in the manipulation of objects. Its function also includes processing information relating to the sense of touch.
What is the parietal lobe?
500
One is the created by the 5 senses while the other is created by thinking about the past or the future.
What are feelings and emotions.