Parts of the Brain
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| show | Studying the bumps in a person's head to see their abilities or characteristics.
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| Localization of Function | show 🗑
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| Biological Psychology | show 🗑
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| Biopsychological systems | show 🗑
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| Neurons | show 🗑
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| show | (listens) Bushy fibers that receive information and sends it to the cell body.
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| show | Fatty tissue incasing the axon, speeds up the impulses.
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| show | A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.
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| show | The positive ions from outside the axon flow inside the axon to the negative ions, depolarizing.
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| show | A period of inactivity after a neuron has fired.
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| Excitatory | show 🗑
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| Inhibitory | show 🗑
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| show | The level of stimulation needed to trigger a neural impulse.
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| show | A neuron will either fire or not, it doesn't have more intensity based on the stimulis.
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| Synapse | show 🗑
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| show | Chemical messengers that travel across the synapse.
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| show | The sending neuron reabsorbs the neurotransmitters.
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| Endorphin | show 🗑
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| Agonist | show 🗑
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| Antagonists | show 🗑
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| Nervous System | show 🗑
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| show | The brain and spinal cord, makes decisions.
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| Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) | show 🗑
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| Nerves | show 🗑
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| show | Carry sensory receptor info to the CNS.
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| show | Carry info from the CNS to the muscles and glands.
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| Interneurons | show 🗑
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| Somatic Nervous System | show 🗑
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| Autonomic nervous system (ANS) | show 🗑
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| Sympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| Parasympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | Work groups the brains neurons cluster into.
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| show | Simple, automatic responses to sensory stimulus. (A knee jerk response)
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| show | The body's "slow" chemical communication system; a set of glands that secretes hormones into the blood stream.
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| show | Chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands and travel through the blood stream to effect other tissue.
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| show | Endocrine glands above the kidneys, secrete hormones that arouse the body at times of stress (epinephrine and norepinephrine)
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| show | Endocrine's most influential gland. Under the hypothalamus the gland regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.
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| Lesion | show 🗑
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| EEG (Electroencephalogram) | show 🗑
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| show | X-rays of the brain to detect damage. (Anatomy)
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| PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography) | show 🗑
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| MRI | show 🗑
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| BrainStem | show 🗑
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| Pons | show 🗑
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| show | Controls pumping of the heart and breathing.
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| Thalamus | show 🗑
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| show | A nerve network that travels through the brain stem, controls arousal.
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| show | "little brain" processes sensory input, coordinates movement output and balance, and enables non-verbal learning.
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| Limbic System | show 🗑
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| Amygdala | show 🗑
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Hippocampus | show 🗑
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