Vocab Flashcards
Arouses the body
Sympathetic nervous system
Calms the body
Parasympathetic nervous system
Regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands
Pituitary
Produces hormone that arouses
Adrenal
Affects metabolism
Thyroid
Secrete hormones into the blood stream
Endocrine system
Mimics neurotransmitter
Agonist
Blocks neurotransmitter
Antagonist
Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
Threshold
mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves
Schizophrenia
neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominately dopamine-producing (“dopaminergic”) neurons in a specific area of the brain called substantia nigra.
Parkinson’s
Controls language expression
Broca’s
No language reception
Wernicke’s
Brains ability to change
Plasticity
Bumps on the head to turn the personality
Phrenology
Works automatically
Autonomic
Sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system
Peripheral
Neurotransmitters reabsorption by the sending neuron
Re-up take
Amplified tracing of the waves of electrical activity in the brain
EEG
Radioactive material is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain on a scanner
PET scan
Detects radio frequency signals produced by displays radio waves in a Magnetic field
MRI
Detects changes in blood flow to particular areas of the brain
fMRI
Helps judge time,Modulate our motions, Discriminate sounds and textures
Cerebellum
Random errors in gene replication
Mutation
Controlled arousal, a role in respiration
Pons
Help explain good feelings
Endorphins
Complete instructions for making an organism
Genome
Talks to the pituitary of the endocrine system to regulate eight major hormones
Hypothalamus
Control memory
Hippocampus
Brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
Action potential
Controls emotion
Amygdala
Speaking, muscle movements, and making plans and judgments
Frontal lobe
Receives sensory input and for touch and body position
Parietal lobe
Receives information from the visual fields
Occipital lobe
Receiving information from the opposite ear
Temporal lobe
Controls heartbeat and breathing
Medulla
Automatic response to a sensory stimulus
Reflex
Associated with emotions and drives
Limbic system
The bodies electrochemical communication network
Nervous system
Carrying incoming Information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord
Sensory neuron
Communicate internally and intervene between sensory inputs and motor outputs
Interneuron
Carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to other muscles and glands
Motor neuron
Any speech impairment
Aphasia
Joins two hemispheres
Corpus collosum
