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Idk Early Stuff Flashcards

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Receives messages and gives them to the cell body

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Dendrite

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“Life center” of neuron. Holds impulse before threshold is met.

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Cell Body

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Axon

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Passes messages from cell body to other neurons

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Myelin Sheeth

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Protects Axon and speeds up impulse

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Terminal branches

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Form junctions with other neurons

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Cerebral cortex

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Covers the hemispheres

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The lobe of the brain is responsible for decision making, judgement, cause and effect, and personality

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Frontal lobe

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Parietal lobe

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Focusses on touch sensation

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This lobe of the brain focusses on auditory function

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Temporal lobe

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Occipital lobe

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Located in back of brain, focusses on vision

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Phineas gage

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Spike went through head, resulted in personality change

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Brain stem

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Oldest and innermost region of the brain

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Medulla

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Swelling on brain stem, controls heartbeat and breathing

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Reticular formation

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Network of neurons inside the brain stem that connects to the spinal cord

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Thalamus

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Brains switchboard, takes information from the senses (not smell) and sends it to appropriate region

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Cerebellum

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Two wrinkled halves, enables voluntary & involuntary movement

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Limbic system

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The limbic system is the part of the brain involved in our behavioural and emotional responses, especially when it comes to behaviours we need for survival: feeding, reproduction and caring for our young, and fight or flight responses.
Contains thalamus, hypothalamus, frontal lobe, olfactory bulb, amygdala, hippocampus

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Hypothalamus

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Homeostasis , governs maintenance, deals with four f’s fight flight food fornication, rewards for doing necessary bodily functions

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Lateral Hypothalamus

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Stimulates hunger

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Ventromedial hypothalamus

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Decreases hunger “full feeling”

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Amygdala

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Modulates fear and aggressive

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Hippocampus

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Modulates memory function

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Dopamine

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Excitatory, influenced movement, learning, attention, and emotion. Reward

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Acetylcholine

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Enables muscle, action, learning, and memory, excitatory

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Serotonin

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Inhibitory. Mood stabilizer, hunger, sleep, arousal

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No epinephrine

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Helps control alertness and arousal

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GABA

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Major inhibitory

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Glutamate

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A major excitatory

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Central Nervous System

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Brain And spinal cord

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Peripheral nervous system

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All of the nervous system excluding the brain and spinal cord

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Autonomic Nervous System

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Part of peripheral ns. Communicates with internal organs and glands

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Somatic ns

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Communicates with sense and organs and voluntary musicles

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