Across
- 3. scavenge pathogens and dead cells
- 4. plays an important role in emotion as well, especially in anger and aggression
- 5. receives inputs from the neocortex
- 8. thin layer that closely follows the contours of the brain
- 9. transmits signals between the brain and the rest of the body, including internal organs
- 10. is the large, two-lobed structure that constitutes the top of the brain
- 11. the key connection point to a person’s cerebellum
- 12. branch-like structures that receive messages from other neurons and allow the transmission of messages to the cell body
- 15. house of many ascending and descending tracts and parts of the reticulum formation and the anterior part of the hindbrain
- 18. tube-like structure that carries electrical impulse from the cell body to the axon terminals that pass the impulse to another
- 21. a circuit of midline structures that circle the thalamus
- 23. division located outside the skull and spine
- 24. dorsal surface of the midbrain
- 25. it is composed of myelinated axons (Myelin- gives off glossy white sheen)
- 26. ridges between fissures & sulci
- 28. are a network of cavities that are distributed throughout the brain
- 29. it is a band of tissues, nerves, and cells
- 30. composed of cell bodies and unmyelinated interneurons
Down
- 1. attached to the spinal cord on the left and right side
- 2. adheres the skull on one side and arachnoid mater on the other side
- 6. strands of connective tissue called arachnoid trabeculae
- 7. composed of two divisions: the brain and the spinal cord
- 13. also called the soma
- 14. cells that are specialized for the reception, conduction, and transmission of electrochemical signals
- 16. developed by Franz Nissl, German psychiatrist, in the 1880s
- 17. neurons with a short axon or no axon at all
- 19. called inferior colliculi
- 20. pronounced as "GLEE-a"
- 22. comes from the Greek word for “Membrane”
- 27. the division of the mesencephalon ventral to the tectum