The Brain - Mia Henschell

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Across
  1. 2. sending transmitters
  2. 4. vision and hearing
  3. 9. vital functions, heart rate respiration & balance
  4. 11. electrical charge that travels down its axon
  5. 12. visual cortex
  6. 15. the sending neuron reabsorbs the excess neurotransmitters from the synapse
  7. 18. deals with imagination, feelings, art & spatial relations
  8. 19. connects the two hemispheres of the brain
  9. 21. carries messages away from the cell body
  10. 22. receives impulses & conducts them to the cell body
Down
  1. 1. process sounds, including speech
  2. 3. contains thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system & cerebral cortex
  3. 5. nerve cells that provides communication through the body
  4. 6. chemical messager that carries impulses across the synaptic gap across transmitters
  5. 7. the junction between the axon terminals of one neuron & the dendrites of another neuron
  6. 8. movement, thinking
  7. 10. translates the info from skin into feeling
  8. 13. touch, sensation & spatial relationships
  9. 14. controls language, logic, problem solving & math
  10. 16. controls movement
  11. 17. produces energy for the cell
  12. 20. insulates & protects the axon