Puzzle 56: Neural Processing and the Brain

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Across
  1. 5. Linked to emotion, located in the limbic system
  2. 6. Neurotransmitter that affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal that is also linked to depression
  3. 9. Processes sensory input and coordinates balance
  4. 10. Brain's ability to build new pathways based on experience and change
  5. 12. Directs messages to sensory receiving areas in cortex
  6. 13. Controls heartbeat and breathing
  7. 14. Carry information from body's tissues to the brain and spinal cord for processing
  8. 15. controls other endocrine glands and regulates growth under the hypothalamus
  9. 16. Minimum intensity needed for a neural impulse to stimulate
Down
  1. 1. Allows control of the skeletal muscles
  2. 2. Language impairment due to damage to Broca's or Wernicke's area.
  3. 3. Controls muscles of internal organs. (uncontrolled)
  4. 4. Meeting point between neurons
  5. 7. Electrical charge that moves through the axon as an impulse
  6. 8. Helps govern endocrine system with pituitary gland
  7. 11. Detects where radioactive glucose goes under brain activity