Across
- 4. Lobe involved in planning, decision-making, and movement
- 10. Brain structure important for forming new memories
- 11. Disorder involving repeated pauses in breathing during sleep
- 12. Controls vital functions such as breathing and heartbeat
- 13. Bundle connecting the brain's two hemispheres
- 14. Controls voluntary movements
- 18. Brain area involved in understanding language
- 20. Division that arouses the body during stress
- 24. Gland that regulates many other endocrine glands
- 26. Neurotransmitter involved in movement, learning, and memory
- 27. Difficulty falling or staying asleep
- 29. Natural chemicals that reduce pain and produce pleasure
- 33. When a neuron becomes less negatively charged
- 35. All nerves outside the brain and spinal cord
- 37. Hemisphere generally associated with language and analytical processing
- 38. Neuron's normal resting electrical charge
- 39. Lobe that processes touch and body sensations
- 41. Neurotransmitter involved in alertness and arousal
- 43. Episodes of intense fear during sleep
- 45. Controls involuntary body functions
- 49. Brainstem network involved in alertness and arousal
- 50. End branches that release neurotransmitters
- 51. Brain structure involved in balance and coordination
- 52. Tiny gap between communicating neurons
- 53. Disorder in which people physically act out dreams
- 54. Lobe responsible for processing visual information
- 55. Regulates hunger, thirst, temperature, and other drives
- 56. Chemical messengers released by glands
- 57. Walking or performing behaviors while asleep
Down
- 1. Brain's ability to change and reorganize
- 2. Division that calms the body and conserves energy
- 3. Hidden meaning of a dream
- 5. Lobe involved in hearing, language, and memory
- 6. Remembered storyline of a dream
- 7. Brainstem structure involved in sleep and movement
- 8. Major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory
- 9. Drugs that alter perception and produce hallucinations
- 15. Chemical messengers between neurons
- 16. Process of a neuron reabsorbing neurotransmitters
- 17. Major inhibitory neurotransmitter that calms neural activity
- 19. Branches that receive messages from other neurons
- 21. body Part of a neuron containing the nucleus
- 22. Neurotransmitter involved in movement, motivation, and reward
- 23. Drugs that increase activity in the nervous system
- 25. Brain area involved in producing speech
- 28. Structure involved in processing fear and emotion
- 30. Drugs that slow activity in the nervous system
- 31. Electrical impulse that travels down an axon
- 32. Brain and spinal cord
- 34. Neurotransmitter involved in mood, sleep, and appetite
- 36. Area that processes information from the senses
- 40. Fatty covering that speeds neural impulses
- 42. Brain's major sensory information relay station
- 43. Disorder involving sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks
- 44. Hemisphere generally associated with spatial and creative processing
- 46. Formation of new neurons
- 47. Area that controls voluntary movement
- 48. Long fiber that carries impulses away from the cell body