Across
- 5. Linked to emotion, located in the limbic system
- 6. Neurotransmitter that affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal that is also linked to depression
- 9. Processes sensory input and coordinates balance
- 10. Brain's ability to build new pathways based on experience and change
- 12. Directs messages to sensory receiving areas in cortex
- 13. Controls heartbeat and breathing
- 14. Carry information from body's tissues to the brain and spinal cord for processing
- 15. controls other endocrine glands and regulates growth under the hypothalamus
- 16. Minimum intensity needed for a neural impulse to stimulate
Down
- 1. Allows control of the skeletal muscles
- 2. Language impairment due to damage to Broca's or Wernicke's area.
- 3. Controls muscles of internal organs. (uncontrolled)
- 4. Meeting point between neurons
- 7. Electrical charge that moves through the axon as an impulse
- 8. Helps govern endocrine system with pituitary gland
- 11. Detects where radioactive glucose goes under brain activity