The Brain

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Across
  1. 7. A band of fibers that connect the hemispheres of the brain.
  2. 9. Concerned with information from the senses from all over the body
  3. 10. The portion of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles
  4. 11. The portion of the peripheral nervous system that controls internal biological functions such as heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure
  5. 13. Motor neurons that send signals from the brain to the glands and muscles
  6. 15. The part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord
  7. 16. The long, thin cells that constitute the structural and functional unit of nerve tissue along which messages travel to and from the brain
  8. 18. The gap that exists between the axon terminals of the sending neuron and the dendrites of the receiving neuron
  9. 19. The brain’s malleability: being easily influenced, trained, or controlled
  10. 20. Sensory neurons that relay messages from the sense organs to the brain
  11. 21. Where the visual signals are processed.
Down
  1. 1. Works to conserve energy and to enhance the body’s ability to recover from strenuous activities.
  2. 2. Gives people the ability to learn and store complex and abstract information, and to project your thinking into the future
  3. 3. A part of the brain located at the rear base of the skull that is involved in the basic processes of life such as sleeping, waking, coordinating body movements, and regulating vital reflexes
  4. 4. Prepares the body for dealing with emergencies or strenuous activity
  5. 5. Concerned with hearing, memory, emotion and speaking.
  6. 6. A man who survived a mining accident involving a tampoing iron, but suffered extreme personality changes
  7. 8. A network of nerves branching out from the spinal cord that conduct information from the bodily organs to the central nervous system and take information back to the organs
  8. 12. Concerned with organization, planning and creative thinking.
  9. 14. The chemicals released by neurons, which determine the rate at which other neurons fire
  10. 17. The largest part of the brain that covers the brain’s central core, consisting of left and right hemispheres, which are connected by a wide band of fibers, the corpus callosum