The Nervous System

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Across
  1. 4. controls muscle contractions and center for learning, emotion, memory, and perception
  2. 5. distorted perception of reality; psychotic episodes
  3. 6. input for sensory info going into cerebrum
  4. 8. molecular mechanism that directs periodic gene expression and cellular activity
  5. 10. returns back to maintained state
  6. 13. commonly associated with memory loss and confusion
  7. 14. difference in function between the left and right hemispheres of the brain
  8. 19. controls digestive excretion
  9. 20. maintains regulation of calmness
  10. 21. hemisphere that dictates logic
  11. 22. body's thermostat and main biological clock
  12. 23. relates to flight-or-fight response
  13. 24. helps capture experiences into recallable memories
  14. 25. band of axons that allows communication between the right and left cerebral cortices
  15. 27. nervous system that controls skeletal muscles
  16. 29. forms thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus
Down
  1. 1. encourages arousal and energy generation
  2. 2. made of neurons that control sleep periods
  3. 3. plans movement sequences
  4. 7. experiencing lack of pleasure or interest
  5. 9. contains midbrain, pons, and medulla
  6. 11. nervous system that controls involuntary movement
  7. 12. coordinates visual reflexes
  8. 15. source of melatonin
  9. 16. daily cycle of biological activity
  10. 17. coordinates motor skills (balance, movement)
  11. 18. hemisphere that dictates recognition
  12. 26. clustered neurons in hypothalamus
  13. 28. active state of the brain, contrary to common belief