Chapters 3-5 Flashcards
What are Neurotransmitters?
Chemicals that carry messages between neurons.
What is GABA?
Inhibits neural firing, helps regulate aggression, eating.
What is serotonin?
Associated with sleep, eating, and mood.
What is dopamoine?
Parkinson’s disease.
Central N.S.
Brain and spinal cord
Peripheral N.S.
2-way communication
Autonomic Division
Controls internal organs and glands.
Somatic Divison
Controls skelatol Muscles.
Sympathetic Division
Energizes the body
Parasympathetic Division
Conserves Energy
Central Core
“Old Brain”
What does the human brain control?
Most of the basic functions related to our survival.
What is medulla?
Breathing and Heartbeat.
What is the Cerebellum?
Some intellectual functions like balance and coordination.
Hippocampus
Involved in memory.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
“The new brain” it makes us human and allows for high level of mental processing.
Frontal Lobe
Planning, voluntary behaviors and personality.
Partial Lobe
Touch and sensation
Occipital Lobe
Vision
Temporal Lobe
Hearing
Endocrine System
system of glands that release hormones.
Pituitary Gland
Located in the brain and called “master gland.”
Thyroid Gland
Regulates metabolism
Stimulus
Any form of energy capable of forming a response.