Chapter 12: Nervous system and mental health

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Across
  1. 2. A disease of recurrent seizures
  2. 5. Automatic body reaction
  3. 7. A layer of meninges that looks like a spider web
  4. 9. Grooves or valleys on the brain
  5. 10. A nerve cell
  6. 12. Weakness of both legs
  7. 15. Part of the autonomic nervous system, controlling the 'rest-digest' reaction.
  8. 17. Uncontrollable impulse to set fire
  9. 18. ... nerves conduct electrical impulses faster and appear more white
  10. 20. Irrational fear
  11. 21. A projection from the nerve cell body that sends out electrical impulse
  12. 22. Inflammation of the brain
  13. 23. A doctor who specializes in mental conditions and behavioral problems
  14. 24. A physician that specializes in diseases and conditions of the nervous system
  15. 25. Accumulation of fluid within the brain ventricles
Down
  1. 1. Branches of neurons that receive electrical impulses
  2. 3. Pertaining to receiving or sensing path, opposite from efferent
  3. 4. One-sided throbbing headache, usually accompanies by auras
  4. 6. Psychiatric condition with binge(excess) eating followed by intentional vomiting
  5. 8. One-sided paralysis
  6. 11. Fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord
  7. 13. Although a doctor, he/she helps evaluating persons with mental and emotional problems
  8. 14. Part of the autonomic nervous system, controlling the 'fight-or-flight' reaction.
  9. 16. A doctor who performs brain operation
  10. 19. Fibers that connect the central nervous system to end organs