Neurons
__________ is the study of the nervous system
Neurology
What are the 3 parts of the brain?
What are involuntary muscle responses?
Reflexes
The Hippocampus is know as the _________ and is responsible for ______ memory formation and processing
Stress
Nerve cells that send messages all over your body to allow you to do everything (breathing, walking, talking, etc)
Neuron
What controls personality, judgment, self control, behavioral control, planning, and the ability to speak
Frontal Lobe
What part of the Peripheral nervous system regulates thinks like heart rate, breathing, digestion, and blood pressure
The Autonomic Nervous system
What is responsible for the processing and regulation of emotions?
The Amygdala
What is the act of self-induced starvation. The individual would have a fear of gaining weight and are constantly thinking about being thin
Anorexia
"Feel Good" neurotransmitter that is associated with pleasure, reward, and motivation
Dopamine
What contains the nerve centers that regulate breathing, heart rate, circulation, swelling, digestion and other vital body functions
Medulla Oblongata
How many categories is the ANS system broken into? What are the names of the categories?
Two Categories
Sympathetic and parasympathetic
What maintains the body's internal balance?
Hypothalamus
What disorder has the following signs:
Over concern with weight, secretive eating and then feelings of guilt, excessive exercising
Bulimia
Molecules located on dendrites that bind to neurotransmitters
Receptors
What analyzes the senses and allows you to feel sensations such as temperature, pressure, and pain?
The parietal lobe
How many nerve pairs branch out form the spinal cord
thirty one
What experiment did we do to test our limbic system?
The memory game
What are repetitive and involuntary negative thoughts or worries that continuously cycle through someone's mind, making it hard to concentrate which then causes distress?
Mind loop
Which step (out of 7) of neurotransmission is this:
The neurotransmitters then travel across the synaptic gap
Step 5
What are 3 things the cerebellum is responsible for?
Coordination of movement
Maintaining posture and balance
muscle tone
motor learning
speech and language processing
What experiment did we do to test the Somatic nervous system? What part of the system were we testing?
The Drop test where we someone dropped the stuffed pinapple and the other student had to see how fast they could catch it. This was testing our reflexes
The hypothalamus tells the _______ what hormones need to release to the body.
pituitary gland
Name three signs that someone may be depressed that we discussed
Fatigue/more sleeping
mood swings
feelings of hopelessness, thoughts of suicide
loss of interest in hobbies/ apathy
appetite changes