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| Phrenology | show 🗑
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| Franz Gall | show 🗑
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| Biological Psychology | show 🗑
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| show | Basic building block of the nervous system; Specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses. Electrical signals travel from dendrites > to cell body > to axon
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| Dendrite | show 🗑
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| show | Extension of a neuron carrying messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands. Longest part of the cell body.
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| Myelin Sheath | show 🗑
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| show | Degeneration of the myelin sheath causing multiple sclerosis
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| show | Neural impulse; brief electrical charge traveling down the axon of a neuron. Caused by the depolarization of neural membrane
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| Depolarization | show 🗑
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| show | Minimal level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
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| All-Or-None Response | show 🗑
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| Selective Permeability | show 🗑
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| show | Time interval in which dendrites transmit more electrical signals to axons. Action potential not possible during this time.
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| Neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| Reuptake | show 🗑
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| show | Junction between the axon tip of a sending neuron and the dendrite/cell body of the receiving neuron. Gap is known as synaptic gap/cleft
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| show | Muscle movement, attention, arousal, memory, emotion
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| Dopamine | show 🗑
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| show | Sleep, wakefulness, appetite, mood, aggression, impulsivity, sensory perception, temperature regulation, pain suppression
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| Endorphins | show 🗑
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| show | Learning, memory, dreaming, awakening, emotion, stress-related increase in heart rate, stress-related slowing of digestive processes
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| GABA | show 🗑
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| Glutamate | show 🗑
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| show | Molecules similar enough to neurotransmitters to bind to receptor sites on a dendrite and mimic the neurotransmitters effects
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| show | Molecules similar enough to neurotransmitters to bind to receptor sites on a dendrite and block the neurotransmitter's effects
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| Nervous System | show 🗑
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| Nerves | show 🗑
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| show | Brain and spinal cord
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| Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the PNS; controlling the glands and muscles of the internal organs (e.g. heart)
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| show | Part of the PNS; controlling the body's skeletal muscles (skeletal nervous system)
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| show | Part of the ANS; arousing the body, mobilizing energy in stressful situations
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| show | part of the ANS; calming the body, conserving energy.
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| show | part of the SoNS; neurons carry incoming information from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord. External stimuli is converted into electrical impulses
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| show | part of SoNS; neurons carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands
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| Interneuron | show 🗑
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| Reflex | show 🗑
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| Neural Networks | show 🗑
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| show | Body's "slow" chemical communication system; a set of glands secreting hormones into the bloodstream
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| show | Chemical messengers o the endocrine system; influence growth, reproduction, metabolism, and mood.
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| show | Endocrine system "master" gland. Influenced by the hypothalamus. Regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands
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| show | Tissue destruction; naturally or experimentally caused.
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| show | Amplified recording of electrical activity waves sweeping across the brain's surface. Measured with electrodes on the scalp.
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| show | Series of x-ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by a computer to represent a slice of the brain's structure
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| MRI | show 🗑
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| show | Visual display of brain activity detecting a radioactive form of glucose and where it goes when the brain performs tasks (e.g. movement and speech)
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| show | Used to study brain anatomy. Measures glucose levels.
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| Functional MRI | show 🗑
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| show | Oldest part / central core of the brain. Begins where the spinal cord swells and enters the skull. Responsible for automatic survival functions (which we are least consciously aware of). Crossover point for nerves.
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| show | Base of the brainstem controlling heartbeat and breathing
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| show | Above medulla; Helps coordinate movements
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| show | Nerve network travelling through the brainstem and thalamus. Plays a role in controlling arousal.
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| show | Top of brainstem; Brain's sensory control center. Receives info from all sense except smell.
Directs messages to the sensory receiving areas of the cortex + transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla
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| show | Back of brainstem; "little brain". Processes sensory input and coordinates movement output, balance, and enabling nonverbal learning and memory.
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| Limbic System | show 🗑
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| show | Processes memory of new information and recent events
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| show | Lima-bean sized neural clusters in the limbic system. Play a role in emotions (aggression and fear)
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Cerebrum | show 🗑
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| Cerebral Cortex | show 🗑
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| show | Cells in the nervous system supporting, nourishing, and protecting neurons. Play a role in learning and thinking.
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| show | Portion of the cerebral cortex behind the forehead. Involved in speaking, muscle movements, planning, and judgement.
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| show | Portion of the cerebral cortex on top of the the head toward the rear. Receives sensory input for touch and body position
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| show | Portion of the cerebral cortex lying above the ears. Includes auditory areas. Each receive info from opposite ears
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| Occipital Lobes | show 🗑
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| Association Area | show 🗑
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| Motor Cortex | show 🗑
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| Somatosensory Cortex | show 🗑
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| Cortical Homunculus | show 🗑
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| Phineas Gage | show 🗑
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| show | Brain area controlling speech
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| Angular Gyrus | show 🗑
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| show | Brain area involved in understanding and producing meaningful speech
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| show | Language impairment caused by damage to the left hemisphere in Broca's area (speech) or Wernicke's area (understanding).
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| Plasticity | show 🗑
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| Neurogenesis | show 🗑
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| Lateralization | show 🗑
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| Corpus Callosum | show 🗑
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| show | Responsible for logic, analysis, sequencing, linear, mathematics, language, facts, thinking in works, words of songs, and computation.
(MATH, LOGIC, SCIENCE, LANGUAGE)
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| Right Hemisphere | show 🗑
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| Split Brain | show 🗑
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| Consciousness | show 🗑
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| show | Information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks
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| show | Endocrine glands sitting above the kidneys. They secrete hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine) to arouse the body during "fight or flight" response or times of stress
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