Chemical messengers that traverse the synaptic gap between nuerons | ||
The gap between the axon tip to the next dendrite of the the receiving cell body | ||
The level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse | ||
Morphine with in | ||
The extension of a neuron ending in branches terminal fibers. | ||
The bushy,branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages | ||
A ;ayer of fatty tissue segment ally encasing the fibers of many neurons | ||
Neural Impuls | ||
In this gland the growth hormone is made and distributed | ||
Chemical Messengers | ||
Creates Adrenaline and Non-Adrenaline | ||
The bodies slow chemical communication system | ||
A condition in which the corpus callosum is severed in the brain | ||
The strands of fibers that send information to the other hemisphere of the brain | ||
Being able to reorganize the brain | ||
The area of the brain that is needed to understand language and words. | ||
Control language expression(controls muscle movement of the mouth) | ||
Language disorder | ||
Areas of the cerebral Cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions | ||
In the front part of the pariatal lobe that sends messages to the body about feeling | ||
At the back of the frontal lobe allows movement | ||
lobe that contains the auditory areas | ||
The lobe that holds the sensory cortex | ||
In this lobe contains the visual cortex | ||
Front portion of the brain. It holds your ability to judge and make good/bad choices | ||
Mainly the brain | ||
Structure below the thalamus; directs maintaince activities | ||
Flight or Fight;Emotions | ||
Mid brain | ||
Balance and voluntary movement | ||
Sensory switchboard | ||
Arousal;Conscious or unconscious | ||
Breathing and heart beating | ||
oldest part of the brain | ||
Magnetic fields and radiowaves to produce computer generated images | ||
Visual display of brain activity that detects radioactive glucose in the brain | ||
X-raying of the brain | ||
Electrical activity of the brain scan | ||
Dead part of brain tissue either naturally of by force for study | ||
clusters of neurons to form a network of cells | ||
Sensory neurons---> Internuerons---> Motor Neurons | ||
Division of the ANS that calms the body | ||
Division of the ANS that arouses the body | ||
Part of the Peripheral Nervous System that contains muscles and glands | ||
Division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the bodies skeletal muscles | ||
Neurons that carry outgoing info from the CNS | ||
CNS Neurons that comm between sensory and Motor Neurons | ||
Neurons that carry incoming info from the sensory receptors to the CNS | ||
Long strands of axon fibers very very sensitive | ||
The brain and spinal cord | ||
The sensory and motor meurons | ||
The body's speedy,electro comm system | ||
A nerve cell; Basic building block | ||
The study between the physical body and how it effects emotions | ||
Cells in the nervous system that support,nourish and protect neurons | ||
A neurotransmitter that among its other functions triggers muscle contractions |
Ap Psych Chapter 2: Nueroscience
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