Chapter 3: Neurology and the Brain

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Across
  1. 5. A division of the peripheral nervous system that sends commands to voluntary skeletal muscles and receives sensory information from the muscles and the skin.
  2. 7. The part of the autonomic nervous system that conserves and maintains the body’s energy resources.
  3. 10. Controls the left side of the body.
  4. 12. Specialized cells in the nervous system that send and receive information throughout the body
  5. 14. A brain imaging technique that combines thousands of x-ray brain photographs to construct a picture of the brain.
  6. 15. A brain imaging technique that produces 3-d images of the brain’s soft tissue
  7. 16. The nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord with the organs and tissues of the body.
  8. 18. The basic biochemical units of heredity
  9. 19. The means by which hereditary characteristics pass from one generation to the next
  10. 20. Consists of the brain and spinal cord.
  11. 21. The part of the brain found at the rear base of the skull that controls the most basic biological needs for life.
  12. 22. The four major sections of both cerebral hemispheres.
Down
  1. 1. The Transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to their children.
  2. 2. Controls the right side of the body.
  3. 3. The part of the brain above the midbrain that controls emotional reactions, thought processes, movement, sensory information, and body temperature
  4. 4. The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls movement of involuntary, non skeletal muscles.
  5. 6. A network of glands that manufactures and secrets hormones directly into the bloodstream
  6. 8. Threadlike structures found in every cell of your body except in red blood cells.
  7. 9. The thinking center of the brain which coordinates and integrates all areas of the brain into a fully functioning unit.
  8. 11. The part of the autonomic nervous system that activates the body’s energy resources to deal with threatening situations.
  9. 13. The part of the brain above the hindbrain that plays a role in attention, stimulation, and consciousness.
  10. 17. Chemical messengers, carried by the bloodstream, that regulate or stimulate the body.