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Neurons

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cells in nervous system that communicate with each other to perform information processing tasks

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Cell Body

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coordinates information - processing tasks and keeps cell alive

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Dendrites

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receive info from other neurons and relay to cell body

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Axon

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carries info through neuron to other neurons, or muscle glands

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Myelin Sheath

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insulating layer on axon

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glial cells

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support cells in neurons system (make up myelin sheath, allow for faster/more efficient info transfer)

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sensory neurons

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receive info from world and convey to brain via spinal cord (light sound taste touch)

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motor neurons

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carry signals from spinal cord to muscles

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interneurons

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connect sensory, motor, or other interneurons

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resting potentials

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difference in charge inside and outside of cell
K+ and A- more abundant inside
Na+ more abundant outside

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action potential

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electrical signal conducted along length of axon to a synapse
(all or nothing, either threshold to start action potential is met or not (not difference it strengths))
-Na+ flows in and increases charge in inside
-influx of Na+ caused more channels to open and keeps action potential going

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refractory period

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time following action potential when new action potential can’t be initiated
- Na+ channels close
- K+ channels open and K+ flows out to restore internal negative charge
-pumps push out Na+ and take in K+ to restore ion balance

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terminal buttons

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end of axons, filled with neruotranmitters

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neurotransmitter

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chemical that transmit info to receiving dendrites

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receptors

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parts of cell membrane that receive neurotransmitters to active or prevent new electrical signal

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three possibilities in synpase

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neurotransmitters…
1. absorbed by terminal buttons on cell it just came from (reuptake)
2. broken down by enzymes
3. drift away

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agonistic

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increase action of neurotranmitters

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antagonistic

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diminish function of neurotranmitters

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central nervous system

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brain and spinal cord
receive info from external world and processes/coordinates, send to to skeletal and muscular systems

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peripheral nervous system

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connects central ns to body’s organs and muscles

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somatic pns

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set of nerves that convey info between voluntary muscles and central ns

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autonomic pns

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set of nerves that carry involuntary and automatic commands to blood vessels

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sympatic autonomic pns

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nerves that prepares body for action (flight or fight)

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parasympatic autonomic pns

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helps body return to resting state

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spinal reflexes

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simple pathways in ns that generale muscles contratctions (come from spinal cord not brain)

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Hindbrain

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coordinates info coming into and out of spinal cord

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Medulla

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Hindbrain
extension of spinal cord, coordinates heart rate, circulation, respiration

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Reticular Formation

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Hindbrain
regulates sleep wakefulness, levels of arousal

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Cerebellum

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Hindbrain
controls fine motor skills (sequence of motions, fine tuning of behavior)

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Pons

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Hindbrain
relays info from cerbellum to rest of brain

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Forebrain

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complex cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor functions

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Cerebral Cortex

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outermost layer of brain, divided into to hempispheres

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Organization Across Hemispheres

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control opposite sides of body
connected by commissures(bundle of axons)

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Occipital Lobe

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Forebrain CC
process visual information
(sensory receptors - eyes, thalamus - occipital lobe)

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Tectum

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Midbrain
orients and organism in environment
moves body towards stimulus

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Tegmentum

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Midbrain
movement, arousal, orients organism to sensory stimuli

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Temporal Lobe

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Forebrain CC
responsible for hearing and language
turns sounds into meaningful units

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parietal lobe

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Forbrain CC
process info about touch

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frontal lobe

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Forebrain CC
specialized areas for movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory, judgment

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subcoritical strucutres

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areas of forebrain housed in serebral cortex

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thalamus

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Forbrain SS
realys and filters information from the senses and transmits the in formation to the central cortex
-everything except smell
-filters info then relays it
-closes pathways during sleep

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hypothalmus

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Frobrain SS
regulates body temp, hunger, thierst, sexual behavior

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hippocampus

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Frobrain SS
creates new memories and integreates them into a network of knowlegde so they can be sotred infeinitley in other parts of the brain

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Amygdala

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Frobrain SS
central role in emotional process, particualry formation of emotional memories

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Basal Ganglia

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Forbrain SS
directs intetentioal movement

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Endocrine System

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network of glands that produce a secrete into bloodstream chemical messages wihchi influence a wide variesty of basic funcitons (metabolism, grown, develpoment)

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Pituitary Glad

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master glad of hormone stystem
release hormons that effect other glads

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Brain Plastcity

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sensory coritces are not fixed
fuctions that are assgined to certain areas of brains are capable of being reassigned to other areas to accomidate changing input form enviorment (fantom limbs, practice makes perfect)

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Genes

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major unito fo hereditary transmission

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Epigenetics

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study of enviormental indluences that determien how/f gesne are expressed

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acetycholine

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control muscles when out in body
control attention when in the brain (alzhemers)

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norepienpherine

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contorl of arousal, wakefulness, exctied feeling

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dopamine

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pleasure and reward
motor behavior from brain, initiation of movement (parkensons)

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serotonin

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mood, appetite, sleep, dreaming, linked to mood disorders

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GABA

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inhibitory, calm us down, slow down

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Glutamate

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excitatory

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Endorphins

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naturally occuring opeiods relife of pain pleasure

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