Across
- 4. oldest part of the brain responsible for basic human functions, what keeps us alive
- 6. subdivision of autonomic nervous system that arouses the body
- 9. electrochemical communication network of the body
- 12. fatty tissue encasing the axon
- 13. the part of the nervous system that connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body
- 15. a kind of mri that involves a sequence of mris taken in quick succession allowing brain activity to be viewed
- 16. nueral clusters in the limbic system linked to emtion
- 17. response in which nueron either fires completely or doesn't at all
- 20. nuerons within the cns that act as middlemen between motor and sensory nuerons
- 26. short period of time after a nueron has fired, action potential cannot occur again until the nueron has returned to its resting state
- 27. brief electrical charge that travels down the axon, a nueral impulse
- 29. branch-like message recievers of a nueron
- 30. a nerve cell
- 31. the chemical messengers of the endocrine system
- 32. nuerons that carry outgoing info from the cns to the pns
- 36. nuerons that carry sensory information into the cns
- 38. molecule that blocks a nuerotransmitter's action
- 39. nueral structure below the thalamus, helps maintain homeostasis, helps govern the endocrine system, and is linked to emotion and reward
- 41. brain observing method involving the measurement of electrical activity on the brains surface
- 43. brain observation that relys on the observation of radioactive glucose within the brain
- 44. part of nueron that passes messages through the terminal branches
- 45. brain observation method that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create images of soft tissue
Down
- 1. brain observation method that uses a series of x rays to take cross sectional images of the brain
- 2. nueral center in the limbic system that helps proccess and store explicit memories of facts and events
- 3. part of the brain at the back of the brainstem, processes sensory info, coordinates movement and balance, enables non-verbal learning
- 5. molecule that increases a nuerotransmitter's action
- 7. gland in the endocrine system that
- 8. part of brain at the base of the brainstem, controls breathing and heartbeat
- 10. tissue damage
- 11. the most influential, controls other endocrine glands
- 14. chemical messengers that pass through the synaptic gap between nuerons
- 18. communication system of the body that is slower than the nervous system, uses chemicals as messengers
- 19. part of brainstem that is involved in arousal
- 21. part of brain refered to as the sensory control center
- 22. part of pns that controls internal glands and organs
- 23. part of cell that contains the nucleus
- 24. brain obersvation method that measures magnetic fields from natural brain activity
- 25. pair of glands in the endocrine system that secrete arousing hormones
- 28. subdivision of autonomic nervous system that calms the body
- 33. level of stimulation needed to trigger a nueral impulse
- 34. space between a terminal branch of one nueron and a dendrite of another
- 35. abbreviation for part of the nervous system including the brain and spinal cord
- 37. nueral system associated with emotions and drives
- 40. part of pns that controls skeletal muscles
- 42. self created morphine,nurotransmitter linked to pain control