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1
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Arouses the body

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Sympathetic nervous system

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2
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Calms the body

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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3
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Regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands

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Pituitary

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4
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Produces hormone that arouses

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Adrenal

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5
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Affects metabolism

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Thyroid

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6
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Secrete hormones into the blood stream

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Endocrine system

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7
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Mimics neurotransmitter

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Agonist

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8
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Blocks neurotransmitter

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Antagonist

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9
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Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse

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Threshold

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10
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mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

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Schizophrenia

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11
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neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominately dopamine-producing (“dopaminergic”) neurons in a specific area of the brain called substantia nigra.

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Parkinson’s

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12
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Controls language expression

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Broca’s

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13
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No language reception

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Wernicke’s

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14
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Brains ability to change

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Plasticity

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15
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Bumps on the head to turn the personality

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Phrenology

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16
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Works automatically

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Autonomic

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17
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Sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system

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Peripheral

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18
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Neurotransmitters reabsorption by the sending neuron

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Re-up take

19
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Amplified tracing of the waves of electrical activity in the brain

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EEG

20
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Radioactive material is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain on a scanner

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PET scan

21
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Detects radio frequency signals produced by displays radio waves in a Magnetic field

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MRI

22
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Detects changes in blood flow to particular areas of the brain

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fMRI

23
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Helps judge time,Modulate our motions, Discriminate sounds and textures

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Cerebellum

24
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Random errors in gene replication

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Mutation

25
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Controlled arousal, a role in respiration

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Pons

26
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Help explain good feelings

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Endorphins

27
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Complete instructions for making an organism

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Genome

28
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Talks to the pituitary of the endocrine system to regulate eight major hormones

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Hypothalamus

29
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Control memory

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Hippocampus

30
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Brief electrical charge that travels down an axon

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Action potential

31
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Controls emotion

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Amygdala

32
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Speaking, muscle movements, and making plans and judgments

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Frontal lobe

33
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Receives sensory input and for touch and body position

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Parietal lobe

34
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Receives information from the visual fields

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Occipital lobe

35
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Receiving information from the opposite ear

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Temporal lobe

36
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Controls heartbeat and breathing

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Medulla

37
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Automatic response to a sensory stimulus

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Reflex

38
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Associated with emotions and drives

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Limbic system

39
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The bodies electrochemical communication network

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Nervous system

40
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Carrying incoming Information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord

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Sensory neuron

41
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Communicate internally and intervene between sensory inputs and motor outputs

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Interneuron

42
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Carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to other muscles and glands

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Motor neuron

43
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Any speech impairment

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Aphasia

44
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Joins two hemispheres

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Corpus collosum

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