Across
- 2. sleeping, waking and dreaming(in the brainstem)
- 4. the extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscles or glands
- 6. nervous system the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles
- 10. lobes visual cortex
- 13. the bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
- 14. responsible for certain automatic functions such as breathing and heart rate.
- 16. neurons neurons that carry outgoing information from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands
- 17. nervous system the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
- 18. nervous system brain and spinal cord
- 19. a fatty substance that helps insulate neurons and speeds the transmission of nerve impulses
- 20. Relays sensory messages to the cerebral cortex
Down
- 1. lobes Left lobe, Broca’s area
- 2. A property of the brain that allows it to change as a result of experience, drugs, or injury.
- 3. lobes Somatosensory cortex
- 5. Regulates Glands
- 7. Motor coordination
- 8. storage of new information in memory
- 9. natural, opiatelike neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure
- 11. lobes Left lobe, Wernicke’s area
- 12. potential a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
- 15. Forms learned associations between objects and emotion, especially fear
