Brain Key Terms

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Across
  1. 4. the body's command center. It's made up of your brain, spinal cord and nerves.
  2. 5. a structure in the middle of your brain
  3. 7. The brain's outermost layer
  4. 8. The body's chemical messengers.
  5. 9. the principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates
  6. 12. the continuation of the spinal cord within the skull
  7. 14. A processing center that manages everything that your body does
  8. 15. a complex system of nerves and networks in the brain
  9. 16. is home to your brain's visual processing abilities
  10. 17. a part of your brain located at the back of your head
  11. 18. a major part of processing input from multiple senses, as well as for how you store and retrieve memories, experience emotions
  12. 19. type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres
Down
  1. 1. The part of the brain just behind your forehead.
  2. 2. controlling body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other homeostatic systems, and involved in sleep and emotional activity.
  3. 3. a noninvasive diagnostic imaging procedure
  4. 6. the brain's outermost layer.
  5. 10. A test that measures electrical activity in the brain
  6. 11. the central trunk of the mammalian brain
  7. 13. a major sensory processing hub for the brain