Biopsychology Terms

5. influences movement, learning, attention and emotion
7. the brain and the spinal cord
8. passes messages away from the cell body to other neurones, muscles or glands
9. helps control arousal and alertness
11. composed of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
13. covers axon of some neurones and helps speed neural impulses
14. a major excitatory neurotransmitter; involved in memory
15. branches of axon
16. impulse/Electrical signal traveling down the axon
17. the sensory and motor neurones that connect the rest of the central nervous system to the rest of the body
18. nerve cell-consists of many different parts

1. nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles
2. a major inhibitory neurotransmitter
3. affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal
4. sends information from the body's tissues and sensory organs
6. nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in a stressful situation
8. enables muscle action, learning and memory
10. cns internal communication
12. receive messages from outer cells
13. takes information from the CNS out to the body's tissues