Regions of the Brain
Controls coordination, balance, learned movements, and involuntary movement
What is the cerebellum?
What PNS stands for
What is the Peripheral Nervous System
Number of lobes in the brain
What is four lobes?
This neurotransmitter is involved in the brain's reward system, pleasure, and motivation
What is dopamine?
Parkinson's is more common among this gender
What is men?
Main functions of the frontal lobe
What are scheduling, future thoughts, and reasoning?
The smallest division of the PNS that controls voluntary movement
What is the somatic nervous system?
What CNS stands for
What is central nervous system?
Makes the neuron more likely to "fire" or generate an action potential
What is excitatory neurotransmitter?
The most common symptom of Parkinson's Disease
What is tremors?
Deals with memory control and retrieval
What is the temporal lobe?
Smallest division of PNS that encompasses sympathetic and parasympathetic functions
What is the autonomic system?
Tissue that surrounds the brain
What is meninges tissue?
The "fight or flight" neurotransmitter
What is norepinephrine?
Approximate age when symptoms of Parkinson's begin to appear
What is 50s to 70s?
Inferior to the occipital and temporal lobes
What is the cerebellum?
The division that controls the "fight or flight" response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Function of the spinal cord
What is conducts signals from the brain to the PNS?
This neurotransmitter is crucial for mood, appetite, and sleep, and low levels are linked to depression
What is serotonin?
Parkinson's leads to the death of this neurotransmitter
What is norepinephrine transmitter?
Anatomical placement of the occipital lobe
What is posterior, inferior to the parietal lobe?
The efferent division's more well known name
What is motor division?
Includes the cerebral cortex, cerebral medulla, and basal nuclei
What are the three layers of the brain?
What GABA stands for
What is gamma-aminobutyric acid?
The name of the abnormal protein clumps present in the brain for people with Parkinson's
What are Lewy bodies?