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Axon

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Tubelike part, carries messages away from the cell body towards other neurons

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Soma

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Cell body

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Terminal buds

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Swellings at tips of axons from which neurotransmitters are dispatched into the synapse

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemical messengers that transport nerve impulses from one nerve cell to another

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Synapse

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Gap between neurons

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Dendrites

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Projects from soma, receives neural imoulses

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Sensory neurons

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Neurons that transmit info from sensory organs, muscles, and inner organs to the spinal cord/ brain.

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Motor neuron

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Neurons that convey nerve impulses from the CNS to muscles and glands

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Glands

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Organs that secrete

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Hormones

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Secretions from endocrine glands that help regulate bodily processes

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Interneurons

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Nerve cells in CNS that connects neurons to neurons.

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Nerve

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Bundle of axons from diff. neurons that transmit nerve impulses

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Nodes of ranvier

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Gaps in myelin sheath that create non insulated areas along axon

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Multiple sclerosis

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A disease of the central nervous system in which the myelin sheath, that insulates axons, is damaged or destroyed

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Ions

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Charged chemical particle

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Resting potential

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Neuron is at resting state (-)

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Depolarization

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Positive shift in neurons resting potential (+)

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Action potential

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Abrupt negative to positive charge (an impulse)

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All or none

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Neuron only fire with a certain lvl. of excitation

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Refractory period

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Temporary state in which neuron is unable to fire in response to continued stimulation. (Toilet is flushing)

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Reuptake

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Process by which neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by the transmitting neuron

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Enzymes

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Organic substances that produce certain chemical changes in other organic substances

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Nueromodulators

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Chemicals release in the nervous system that influence the sensitivity of the receiving neuron to neurotransmitters

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Antagonist

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Drugs that block the actions of neurotransmitters by occupying the receptor sites in which the near transmitters dock

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Hallucination

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Hearing voices or seeing things that are not there

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Delusions

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Fixed, false ideas, such as believing that aliens have taken over their bodies

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Parkinson’s disease

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A degenerative brain disease that leads to progressive loss of motor function or physical movement

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Agonists

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Enhance the activity of neurotransmitters

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Stimulant

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Drug that activates CNS, like coffee

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Amphetamines

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Same aw stimulant but stronger, like cocaine, “speed”

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Antidepressant

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Drugs that fight depressants affecting activity of neurotransmitters in the brain

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Endorphins

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Natural chemicals released in the brain that have pain killing and pleasure inducing effects

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Pns

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Links body to world

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Autonomic NS

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Part of PNS regulates involuntary bodily processes like heart rate,respiration, digestion and pupil contraction; no conscious direction

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Somatic NS

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Part of PNS, carries sensory info from sensory organs to the CNS and relays motor commands to muscles, controls volantary movement

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Sympathetic NS

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Part of ANS, speeds up bodily processes when threatened.

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Parasympathetic

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Part of ANS, replenishes bodily resources by promoting digestion and slowing down other bodily processes

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Hindbrain

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Pons, medulla, cerebullum

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Midbrain

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Reticular formation

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Forebrain

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Hypothalamus, basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, thalamus, and hypothalamus.

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Cerebral cortex

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The lobes and corpus callosum

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Basal ganglia

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Cluster of nerve cells, forebrain, balance and coordination

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Cerebellum

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Balance and coordination, hindbrain

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Medulla

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Hindbrain, controls main bodily functions, like heartbeat/rate, breathing, and reflexes

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Pons

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Hindbrain, sleep and awake

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Reticular formation

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Network of neurons that rises from hind brain and passes through the midbrain. Attention, alertness, arousal.

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Thalamus

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Relay station near brain. Sends info like Touch, vision, hearing, taste, not smell, from one area to another

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Hypothalamus

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Hunger,thirst, fluid concentration, body temperature, reproductive processes, emotional states, response to stress

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Somatosensory cortex

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Part of parietal lobe that processes info about touch and pressure on the skin, and position of bodies

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Motor cortex

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Regulates Body movement

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Association areas

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Parts of cerebral cortex that makes perceptions if the world and performa higher mental functions

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EEG

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Electrical activity in brain

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CT Scan

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Cat scan, xray beam passed through body at diff angles to generate 3d image of bodily structures

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PET (positron emission tomography)

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Radioactive sugar tracer injected into the bloodstream and used to measure levels of activity of various parts of the brain

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MRI

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Uses magnet to create computure images

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Lesioning

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Destroys parts of brain of animal to observe affects

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Electrical recording

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Electrodes implanted, electrical changes in response to stimuli

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Electrical stimulation

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Electrical current sent through various parts of the brain to observe affects.

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Laterization

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Division between right/left hemisphere

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Brocas area

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Production of speech

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Wernickes area

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Our ability to understand language written or spoken

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Aphasia

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Loss or impairment of the ability to express language

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Plasticity

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Brain able to reorganize itself after trauma

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Stroke

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Clot blocks an artery. Paralysis, loss of sensation, etc.

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Phinease gage

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Crazy man

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Prefrontal cortex

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Higher mental function, like thinking, planning. In forebrain

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Laceration

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Damage to the brain when something penetrates.

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Concussion

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Blow to the head, no penetration, sometimes harmless, sometimes serious

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Epilepsy

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Severing of corpus callosum

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Split brain patient

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Go through epilepsy

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Glutamate

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Excitatory neurotransmitter helps cns aroused

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Serotonin

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Feelings if sensation after eating

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