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What is GABA responsible for?

A

Motor control and anxiety

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What is Acetyl Choline responsible for?

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Excites neurons in voluntary muscles

Memory consolidation in hippocampus

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What is Dopamine responsible for?

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Voluntary movement
Learning
Arousal
Feelings of pleasure

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What is serotonin responsible for?

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Sleep
Arousal
Emotions

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Nor-Adreneline

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Experience of emotions

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Neurotransmitters are released across what?

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Synapses

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Starting with the the dendrites, what is the order of a neuron?

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Dendrites->neuron->axon->myelin sheath->synapses

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Sensory neurons travel from ______ to the ______?

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From sense organs to the brain

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What is the PNS?

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The peripheral nervous system

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What makes up the CNS?

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Neurons

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What is the structure of the CNS?

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The brain + the spinal cord

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The right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for what?

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Pattern solving, creativity, art, music ect.

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The left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for what?

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Speaking, writing, logical activities, maths

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The left hemisphere controls which side of the body?

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The right side

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What is the corpus callosum?

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A thick band of nerve tissue in the middle of the brain holding the two sides together

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What is the fontanelle?

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A soft spot on the top of a baby’s head where the skull hasn’t grown

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What are the four lobes of the brain?

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Frontal
Parental
Occipital
Temporal

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What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

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Detecting skin sensations (pressure and touch)

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What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

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Visual information

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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?

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Hearing, understanding speech

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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?

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Thinking, personality, decision making ect.

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Why is the corpus callosum wider in women than men?

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It aids with multi-tasking

23
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What are the neurotransmitters?

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GABA
Dopamine
Serotonin
Nor-Adrenaline
Acetyl choline

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