Biopsychology Terms
Across
- 5. influences movement, learning, attention and emotion
- 7. the brain and the spinal cord
- 8. passes messages away from the cell body to other neurones, muscles or glands
- 9. helps control arousal and alertness
- 11. composed of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
- 13. covers axon of some neurones and helps speed neural impulses
- 14. a major excitatory neurotransmitter; involved in memory
- 15. branches of axon
- 16. impulse/Electrical signal traveling down the axon
- 17. the sensory and motor neurones that connect the rest of the central nervous system to the rest of the body
- 18. nerve cell-consists of many different parts
Down
- 1. nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles
- 2. a major inhibitory neurotransmitter
- 3. affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal
- 4. sends information from the body's tissues and sensory organs
- 6. nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in a stressful situation
- 8. enables muscle action, learning and memory
- 10. cns internal communication
- 12. receive messages from outer cells
- 13. takes information from the CNS out to the body's tissues