Neurons
the smallest unit of the nervous system, a nerve cell
What is a neuron?
What is the limbic system?
this makes us distinctly human, has the most complex functions. This cortex is divided into lobes separated by fissures.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
Playing the guitar and balance is an example of using this part of the brain.
What is the cerebellum?
A fatty covering that speeds an impulse and insulates the axons.
What is a myelin sheath?
Spoken and written speech comprehension comes from this part of the brain/ associated area.
What is Wernicke's Area?
What is Broca's Area?
____ is responsible for our smiles and facial expressions.
What is medulla.
Neurotransmitters are released from the _____ of one neuron and attach to the _____ of another neuron.
What is a terminal button? What is a dendrite?
Located at the top of the brain stem, sensory information relay center; receives information from the spinal cord and sends to the correct part of the brain.
What is the thalamus?
Located inside the brain stem, enables arousal, filtered and relays sensory information to the brain (stimulated= awake, severed = coma)
What is the reticular formation?
When you see a teranchela next to your bed and you scream, your ____ is linked with this emotion.
What is the amygdala?
Neuron is polarized (negative 70 mv), it has a negative charge inside the cell and is selectively permeable.
What is resting rate?
following massive the frontal lobe _____ (name of a person) is most likely debilitated by irritability.
Who is Phineas Gage?
The _____ predicts consequences, pursuing goals, and maintaining executive control.
What is executing functioning?
When you are at the doctor's office and they want you to take the eye exam, when looking at the differently sized numbers and letters, your ___ lobes is working.
What is Occipital Lobes?
A neurotransmitter associated with motor movement and alertness. A lack in this neurotransmitter results in Parkinson disease and tremors. Too much of this neurotransmitter causes schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
Motor neurons are to ____ as inter-neurons are to ____.
What is peripheral nervous system? What is central nervous system?
The process in which when neurons are severed, the brain is somewhat flexible and can adapt if needed by stretching dendrites to make new connections in damaged parts of the brain is called ____.
What is brain plasticity?
When you are walking home from school and suddenly a car honked its horn, the _____ alerts, causes you "flinch", and look towards the sound.
What is the Reticular Formation?