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Your brain needs this (___________) to take things from short-term memory to long term memory
What is sleep
Connections between neurons are called (____________)
What are synapses?
This neurotransmitter called (________________) is responsible the activation of brain's reward system.
What is dopamine?
The teen brain is "hard-wired" for this type of behavior.
What is risk taking?
White Matter
What is another word for myelin
(__________________) is being able to figure out ways to survive in whatever environment you are in
What is being adaptable
During adolescence neural connections are insulated through a process that is called (___________)
What is mylenation?
The Limibic System plays a central role in your (________)
What is emotional response?
The PFC is located
What is behind your forehead
Another way to say Prefrontal Cortex
What is the "frontal lobe"
Your brain does not fully develop until (_____-____'s)
What is mid-20's
Specialized cells in the brain are called (_________)
What are neurons?
The limbic system is associated with (_________________________)
What is decisions made in feeling
The PFC matures (_______________) than other parts of the brain
What is later
Someone who studies the brain is a (_____________)
What is a neurologist?
Teens can shape their own brains by the (______________)
What is the activities teens spend their time doing
If a synapse isn's used often, then this happens (__________)
What is synaptic pruning
The Limbic system develops earlier than (_____________)
What is the Prefrontal Cortex
This region of the brain goes through dramatic changes, and is not fully formed mature' during adolescence.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Another word for neural isulation
What is myelin
The ability of the brain to change is called (__________________)
What is brain plasticity
(_____________) are located at the end of neurons and receive neurotransmitters in the reward center.
What is dopamine receptors?
Some of the things that boost dopamine are (________), physical activity being kind and feeling a sense of accomplishment.
What is laughing
The PFC helps with thinking and sizing up risk and (_______________)
What is reward
There is a decline in this type of brain matter, due to synaptic pruning during adolescence called (______________________)
What is gray matter?