Acts like a drug to reduce pain as well as help transmit messages; it is the natural "morphine."
What is Endorphins?
100
This hemisphere of the brain controls spatial behavior and artistic efforts.
What is the right hemisphere?
100
The lobe of the brain with executive functions such as making decisions, planning, reasoning, and carrying out actions.
What is the frontal lobe?
100
This is a sleep disorder that involves a disruption of breathing.
What is Sleep Apnea?
200
The gap between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron.
What is synapse?
200
Chemical that is involved in motor messages and behavior. Deficiencies can lead to Parkinson's Disease.
What is Dopamine?
200
This hemisphere of the brain controls language and logic.
What is the left hemisphere?
200
A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear; sound waves traveling through the fluid inside trigger nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
200
Recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.
What is REM Sleep?
300
The brain and spinal cord make up this nervous system.
What is the Central Nervous System?
300
Too little of this chemical can lead to Alzheimer's Disease.
What is Acetylcholine?
300
The part of the brain linked to emotion; specifically anger and fear.
What is the Amygdala?
300
This lobe of the brain receives and processes messages from the skin senses, such as warmth, cold, touch, and pain.
What is the parietal lobe?
300
This sleep disorder is the inability to fall asleep, to sleep, or to stay asleep, it is usually caused by stress.
What is insomnia?
400
Located at the end of a nerve cell and receive messages from other nerve cells?
What are dendrites?
400
Slows the activity of the nervous system; alcohol, valium, xanax.
What are depressants?
400
The area of the left hemisphere that controls speech muscles.
What is Broca's Area?
400
The process by which our brain organizes and interprets sensory information, transforming it into meaningful objects and events.
What is perception?
400
These occur during the REM sleep most of the time, but they can occur at any stage of sleep.
What are dreams?
500
This nervous system includes all the nerve cells that send and receive messages from all parts of the body to the spinal cord and the brain.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
500
Stored in sacs in the axon terminal; chemical messages that cross over to the next nerve cell.
What are neurotransmitters?
500
The structure of the brain that connects and relays messages between the two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
500
Suggests that only a certain amount of information can be processed by the central nervous system at a time; rubbing or scratching a painful area transmits sensations to the brain that competes with the pain messages for attention.
What is Gate's Theory?
500
An altered state of consciousnesses that a train therapist can induce; characterized by heightened suggestibility, deep relaxation, and highly focused attention.