The body's slow chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream
Left Hemisphere
Controls right side, logic, language, analytical.
Lesion
Tissue destruction. A brain lesion is a naturally or experimentally cased destruction of brain tissue
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
A major inhibitory neurotransmitter. Under supply linked with seizures, tremors, and insomnia
Spinal Cord
The cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column
Automatic Nervous System
The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs (such as the heart). Its sympathetic division arouses, its parasympathetic division calms
Right Hemisphere
Controls left side, art, creativeness, music, intuitive.
Split Brain
A condition in which the two hemispheres of the brain are isolated by cutting the connecting fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) between them.
Franz Gall
German physician who invented phrenology, the popular but ill-fated theory that claimed bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and our character traits
Interneurons
Central nervous system neurons that internally communicate and intervene between the sensory inputs and motor outputs
