The Nervous System
This type of cell is the building block of the nervous system.
What is a Neuron.
This hormone is produced in the pancreas and helps regulate blood sugar.
What is insulin?
This part of the brain connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
A failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
This biological cycle operates on a 24 hour clock.
What is the circadian rythm?
This type of neuron carries instructions from your central nervous system out to your body's muscles and glands.
What is a motor neuron?
This part of the brain acts as the connection between the nervous system and the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
This part of the brain regulates primitive emotions such as fear and rage.
What is the amygdala?
Our ability to focus our conscious awareness on a particular stimulus.
What is selective attention?
This is the stage of sleep where dreams happen.
What is REM (rapid eye movement) sleep?
This part of the neuron receives messages from other cells.
What is a dendrite?
This organ produces the hormone Thyroxine and helps regulate metabolism.
What is the thyroid?
This neural system sits between your brains older parts (the brainstem) and your cerebral hemispheres (the cerebrum).
What is the limbic system?
The human brain's simultaneous operation of two distinct, parallel cognitive systems: a fast, automatic, unconscious and intuitive system and a slow, deliberate, conscious and analytical track.
What is the dual-track theory of mind?
These are the four most common types of sleep disorders.
What are insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea and sleepwalking/sleep talking?
Night terrors is also an acceptable answer.
What is a synaptic gap?
This is one advantage of the endocrine system over the nervous system.
This portion of the cerebral cortex lies roughly above the ears - and includes areas that receive information from the ears.
What is the temporal lobe?
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
This hormone regulates how sleepy we feel.
What is melatonin?
A fatty tissue that surrounds an axon to increase the speed of the action potential.
What is a myelin sheath.
This hormone raises your heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar giving you a surge of energy known as the "fight or flight" response.
What is adrenaline?
This section of the brain includes parts that regulate planning, personality, judgment, and a person's inhibitons.
What is the frontal lobe?
Our failure to notice change in the environment.
What is change blindness?
This type of brain wave is seen during NREM-3 sleep.
What is a delta wave?