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| 1646737905 | Nervous System | the body's electro chemical circuitry | 0 | |
| 1646737906 | Plasticity | brain's capacity for change | 1 | |
| 1646737907 | efferent nerves | allow you to move | 2 | |
| 1646737908 | Neural Networks | input from eyes to brain passes through many _____ | 3 | |
| 1646737909 | Peripheral Nervous System | connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body | 4 | |
| 1646737910 | Somatic Nervous System | coveys info from skin to muscles to the central nervous system; pain and temp | 5 | |
| 1646737911 | Autonomic Nervous System | controls heart rate, breathing and digestion | 6 | |
| 1646737912 | Sympathetic and Parasympathetic | The two divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System | 7 | |
| 1646737913 | Sympathetic | butterflies in tummy, increased heart rate | 8 | |
| 1646737914 | Parasympathetic | calms you down | 9 | |
| 1646737915 | Corticosteroids | stress hormones | 10 | |
| 1646737916 | acute stress | momentary stress, occurs in response to life experience | 11 | |
| 1646737917 | Glial Cells | they provide support and nutritional benefits to the Nervous System | 12 | |
| 1646737918 | cell body | contains the nucleus | 13 | |
| 1646737919 | firing | Neuron sends an action potential it is said to be ____ | 14 | |
| 1646737920 | All or Nothing Principle | the principle that once the electrical impulse reaches a certain level of intensity it fires and moves all the way down the axon without losing intensity | 15 | |
| 1646737921 | synapses | tiny spaces between neurons | 16 | |
| 1646737922 | Norepinephrine | Inhibits the firing of neurons in the CNS excites the heart muscles- | 17 | |
| 1646737923 | low Acetylcholine (ACH) | Alzheimer's | 18 | |
| 1646737924 | Low levels of Dopamine | Lead to Parkinson's | 19 | |
| 1646737925 | endorphins | natural opiates | 20 | |
| 1646737926 | Oxytocin | love- social bonding | 21 | |
| 1646737927 | Agonist | increases a neurotransmitters effects | 22 | |
| 1646737928 | Antagonist | block a neurotransmitters effect | 23 | |
| 1646737929 | EEG | when you place electros on scalp | 24 | |
| 1646737930 | PET Scan | monitors glucose in various areas of brain - | 25 | |
| 1646737931 | FMRI | allows to see the brain working | 26 | |
| 1646737932 | medulla pons and cerebellum | Parts of the hindbrain | 27 | |
| 1646737933 | cerebellum | balances gives muscle coordination | 28 | |
| 1646737934 | medulla | regulates breathing and heart rate | 29 | |
| 1646737935 | Forebrain | Largest division of the brain | 30 | |
| 1646737936 | amygdala | Discrimination of objects needed for survival such as food emotional awareness | 31 | |
| 1646737937 | Basil ganglion | ) Large neuron clusters above the Thalamus under cerebral cortex - control and coordinate voluntary movement- | 32 | |
| 1646737938 | Hypothalamus | monitors eating, drinking and sex and emotion and stress | 33 | |
| 1646737939 | Cerebral Cortex | Complex mental functions such as planning thinking | 34 | |
| 1646737940 | Frontal Lobes | Personality intelligence, and control of voluntary muscles | 35 | |
| 1646737941 | somatosensory cortex | deals with bodily sensations | 36 | |
| 1646737942 | association cortex | highest intellectual functions thinking | 37 | |
| 1646737943 | Aphasia | only able to say one word | 38 | |
| 1646737944 | Left Hemisphere | Speech and Grammar | 39 | |
| 1646737945 | Endocrine System | consists of glands that regulate the activities of certain organs by releasing hormones into the blood stream | 40 | |
| 1646737946 | adrenaline glands | help regulate mood | 41 | |
| 1646737947 | Pancreas | important role in metabolism weight and insulin | 42 | |
| 1646737948 | Substitution of function | different part of the brain takes over | 43 | |
| 1646737949 | neurogenisis | - olfactory bulb hippocampus | 44 | |
| 1646737950 | 23 | we have ____ chromosomes | 45 | |
| 1646737951 | Genes | enable cells to reproduce and make proteins | 46 | |
| 1646737952 | Phenotype | Hair color and eye color | 47 |
