Across
- 5. - the outer layers of the brain in humans and other mammals
- 6. - physical abilities involving small body movements
- 7. - biological mechanism that protects the brain when malnutrition disrupt body growth
- 10. - when parents and their children sleep together in the same room
- 12. - any deliberate movement of the body
- 13. - tiny pea-sized structure located under the thalamus despite its small size
Down
- 1. - Fatty substance coating axons that speeds transmission of nerve impulses from neuron to neuron
- 2. - Nerve cell that receives and sends information throughout the nervous system
- 3. - when two or more people sleep in the same bed
- 4. - A point on a ranking scale of 0 to 100
- 8. - carries messages away from the cell body
- 9. - receive messages/signals from other neurons
- 11. - gland in the brain that responds to signal from the hypothalamus