nervous system, neurons, endocrine system, brain
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show | Brain, Spinal Cord,
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Peripheral Nervous System | show 🗑
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Somatic Nervous System | show 🗑
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show | division of the peripheral nervous system that automatic functions of the body
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Sympathetic Nervous System | show 🗑
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Parasympathetic Nervous System | show 🗑
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show | from peripheral to central, part of body to brain (SAME)
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Efferent Nerves (Motor Neurons) | show 🗑
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show | nerve cells in brain and spinal cord, process information related to sensory and motor neurons
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show | automatic response that you cannot control
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show | branch out from cell body, receive information by neurotransmitter
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show | cell body
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Nucleus | show 🗑
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Axon | show 🗑
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show | makes impulses travel faster through axon
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Axon Terminal | show 🗑
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Terminal Buttons | show 🗑
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Vesicles | show 🗑
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Synapse (Synaptic Gap, Synaptic Cleft) | show 🗑
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show | ready to fire but not firing yet, waits for neurotransmitters to go across synapse
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Excitatory Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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show | less likely to reach threshold
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show | minimum level of stimulation required for transmission
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Action Potential (Neural Impulse) | show 🗑
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Refractory Period | show 🗑
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All or None Principle | show 🗑
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Electrochemical Reaction | show 🗑
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Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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show | effects movement, mostly involuntary, too much: schizophrenia, too little: Parkinson’s
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show | mood, sleeping habits, eating habits, low levels: depression
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Norepinephrine (Noradrenaline) | show 🗑
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Acetylcholine | show 🗑
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GABA (Gamma Aminobutyric Acid) | show 🗑
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show | predominate excitatory neurotransmitter, activates neurons to remember things
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Endorphins | show 🗑
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Glial Cells | show 🗑
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show | produce hormones
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Glands | show 🗑
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Pituitary | show 🗑
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Pancreas | show 🗑
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show | regulates energy in the body, located in the neck, controls metabolism
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show | helps to arouse the body in times of stress, on top of the kidneys, adrenaline
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Pineal | show 🗑
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Ovaries | show 🗑
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show | males, controls sexual: development, functioning, reproduction
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show | chemical from nervous system
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Human Growth Hormone (HGH) | show 🗑
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Insulin | show 🗑
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Adrenaline (Epinephrine) and Noradrenaline (Norepinephrine) | show 🗑
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show | sleep, makes you tired
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show | females sexual reproduction, development, functioning
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Progesterone | show 🗑
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Testosterone | show 🗑
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Accidents & Brain Damage (Case Studies) | show 🗑
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show | damage part of the brain (animal) to see the effect it has
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EEG (Electroencephalography) | show 🗑
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show | special xray, structure
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show | inject the body with glucose to see how the brain uses it, function
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show | very clear picture of the brain, structure
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show | tells what the brain is doing, what part of the brain is active, structure and function
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show | everything is necessary for survival
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Brainstem | show 🗑
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show | part of the brainstem, controls basic life functions, damage: death
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Pons | show 🗑
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Reticular Formation | show 🗑
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show | part of the hindbrain, voluntary movements and balance, muscle coordination and memory
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show | part of the forebrain, sits on top of the brainstem, directs messages to proper are of the brain, all senses go through except smell
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show | part of the forebrain, at the border of the brainstem and cerebral cortex, regulates memory and emotion
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Hippocampus | show 🗑
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show | part of the limbic system, controls many emotional responses, and the end of the hippocampus
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Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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show | part of the cerebrum, wrinkled outer layer of the brain, makes us different from other species
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Gyri | show 🗑
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Sulci | show 🗑
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Motor Cortex | show 🗑
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show | (sensorimotor area, cerebrum) skin sensation, touch, front of parietal lobe
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Auditory Cortex | show 🗑
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show | (sensorimotor area, cerebrum) ability to see
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Frontal Lobe | show 🗑
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show | (association area, cerebrum) spatial processing, tactile perception, math, numbers
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show | (association area, cerebrum) auditory perception, facial recognition
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Occipital Lobe | show 🗑
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show | enables you to communicate
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show | helps you to understand
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Longitudinal Fissure | show 🗑
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show | speech, language, math, science, logic, right side of your body
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show | art, music, recognition of things, gut feeling, creativity, spatial
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Contralaterality | show 🗑
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show | connects the two hemispheres, everything in left visual field will go to right visual cortex, everything in right visual field will go to left visual cortex
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show | used to prevent seizures, hemispheres cannot communicate
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Brain Plasticity | show 🗑
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