Across
- 3. Processing what you touch
- 9. Seeing and interperting visual information
- 10. Network that helps control bodily functions
- 11. Railroad Worker who had a brain injury that altered his personality
- 12. Disease that damages and kills neurons
- 14. Send electrical impulses to neighboring neurons.
- 15. The cell body which contains most of the cell’s organelles(Systems that keep your cells alive)
- 20. Oldest part of the brain; Function for reacting to outside enviroment and survival
- 21. specialized cell in the nervous system that sends and receives information through electrical and chemical signals.
- 23. Mood, sleep, appetite Helps regulate emotions and overall well-being
- 24. Receive electrical impulses from neighboring neurons.
- 25. traits are passed down because they are a survival advantage
Down
- 1. Behavior,Learning and personality, Last part of your Brain to develop
- 2. Understanding Language, sounds and communication
- 4. Contains the cell’s DNA
- 5. Cover the axon and work like insulation to help keep electrical signals inside the cell. Ex. Plastic over a charger corAxon Transfers electrical signals from the Soma (Cell Body) to the synapse.
- 6. It helps process new memories for permanent storage
- 7. Helps regulate many of the body’s maintenance activities such as eating, drinking and body temperature, is linked to emotion
- 8. Ring of structures at the border of the brainstem and cerebral cortex
- 13. English Scientist who authored the Theory of Evolution
- 16. Reward, motivation, pleasure Helps you feel good when you achieve something
- 17. Fight-or-flight response Increases heart rate, breathing, and energy Released during stress or danger
- 18. The study of the life and its structures for growth and function
- 19. the Organ that commands all bodily function
- 22. Automatic reading can interfere with attention
