Brain Parts
Controls vital reflexes.Regulation of breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.
What is Medulla?
Lobe involved planning actions and social and emotional behavior.Gives one self-awareness.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
The largest part of the neuron that powers the neuron.
What is the cell body or soma.
Computed tomography scan.Series of x-rays taken from different angles.
What is CAT/CT Scan?
Neurotransmitter that can lead to schizophrenia when high and Parkinson's when low.
What is dopamine?
The brain can repair itself and create/repair neural pathways that have been damaged, the brain is not set in stone.
What is Neural Plasticity?
Lobe at the upper middle of the cerebrum.Contains that area where feeling sensations are processed.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
The largest part of the neuron
What is the axon.
Positron emission tomography.Shows brain activity using radioactive glucose.
What is Pet Scan?
The point at which a neuron transfers an impulse to another cell
What is the synapse.
Area of the brain most involved in balance and posture
What cerebellum?
Lobe at the lower sides of the cerebrum.Contains areas important to hearing and understanding speech.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Branched extensions that receive impulses
What is the dendrites.
Amplified recording of waves of electrical activity the brain gives off.Measured by putting electrodes on scalp.
What is EEG (electroencephalogram)?
An undersupply of serotonin is most closely linked to
What is depression.
Like a switchboard for information about all senses except smell.
What is the thalamus?
Lobe at the back of cerebrum.Contains areas important to vision.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Insulating membrane that sometimes surrounds the axons
What is the myelin sheath.
Magnetic resonance imaging.Uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create still images showing different types of soft-tissue.
What is MRI?
Mood,hunger,sleep,dreaming, Emotional State.
What is Serotonin?
Part of the brain involved in fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
Small strip of parietal lobe that controls sensation of touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.
What is the Sensory Cortex?
Three types of neurons
What is motor, inter, and sensory.
Shows activity and blood flow in the brain while it’s working, using radioactive glucose.
What is fMRI?
A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the
What is the action potiental.