Across
- 2. A complete and closed path around which a circulating electric current can flow; a neural pathway.
- 4. The process of a body tissue or organ wasting away, typically due to the degeneration of cells.
- 5. Describes a state, quality, or emotion that is very great or intense.
- 7. The outer layer of the cerebrum, composed of folded gray matter and playing an important role in consciousness.
- 11. A fatty white substance that surrounds the axon of some nerve cells, forming an electrically insulating layer.
- 12. A profound transformation from an immature stage to an adult stage in two or more distinct stages.
- 14. Describes a person who speaks only one language.
- 15. The beginning of something, especially something unpleasant like a disease.
- 16. The microscopic gap between two nerve cells, across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.
- 18. Having many complexly interrelating parts or details.
- 19. Relating to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning.
- 20. An irregular rising and falling in number or amount; a variation.
Down
- 1. A complex brain structure embedded deep into the temporal lobe that has a major role in learning and memory.
- 3. A person who designs buildings or, metaphorically, one's own mind.
- 6. Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless.
- 8. Involving or limited to basic principles; in an early, undeveloped stage.
- 9. A nerve cell that is the fundamental unit of the brain and nervous system.
- 10. The action of preventing the development, action, or expression of something.
- 13. A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.
- 17. Describes a person who is able to speak two languages fluently.
