Brain Basics
Part of a neuron which receives signals
What are dendrites?
What is smell?
Neurotransmitter that facilitates movement in muscles
What is acetylcholine?
Turns short term memory into long term memory
What is the hippocampus?
Ability of the brain to modify itself and adapt to environmental challenges
Nerve fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain
What is the corpus callosum?
Strip of the brain dedicated to receiving sensory signals from different parts of the body
What is the somatosensory cortex?
When the bicep acts as a flexor, the tricep acts act a _____
What is an extensor?
Another name for language disorders
What is aphasia?
Disease caused by impaired protein processing and lack of accetylcholine
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Ion channels that open during repolarization
What are potassium ion (K+) channels?
Small sensory hair cells in the ear
What are stereocilia?
Area in the brain that is affected in Parkinson's disease
What is the substantia nigra?
Skills that do not require consious effect like riding a bike this kind of memory
Implicit memory
Period in development where neurons move to their long term location in the brain
What is migration?
Most common inhibitory neurotransmitter
What is GABA?
Five categories of taste detected by taste buds
What are sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami (savory)?
Reflexes that do not go through the brain only reach here
What is the amygdala?
What is megalencephaly?
Made up of parts of the midbrain and forebrain, control complex body movements
What is the basal ganglia?
The types of neurons in the retina in the same order as a visual signal would travel through them
What are ganglion cells, interneurons, and photoreceptors?
Disease cause by a lack of inhibitory neurons in the basal ganglia
Between the temporal and parietal lobes, concerned with percieving behaviors of other people
What is the temporoparietal junction?
Life sustaining chemical signals that are used while paring back to mark which neurons should survive
What are trophic factors?