SCIENTIFIC PSYCH CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 3. Conscious, explicit memories
  2. 5. (Electroencephalogram) - Electrical activity
  3. 7. FAUN is a response to ______.
  4. 10. top of brainstem, info hub, receives info from all senses (except smell) and routes information to brain regions
  5. 12. brain can change, especially during chldhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.
  6. 14. Master gland
  7. 15. ____ in the skull could reveal a person's mental abilities
  8. 17. (functional MRI) - measuring blood flow in the brain.
  9. 19. relays nerve signals from brain to spinal cord (heartbeat and breathing)
  10. 21. Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal. Undersupply is linked to depresssoin. Some drugs that raise these levels are used to treat depression.
  11. 22. natural, pain control or pleasure
  12. 23. brainstem structures that direct essential survival functions
  13. 26. chemical messengers
  14. 27. Enables muscle action, learning, and memory. ____ producing neurons deteriorate with Alzhiemers disease.
  15. 28. molecule that increases a neurotransmitters action
  16. 29. Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion, oversupply is linked to schizophrenia, undersupply linked to tremors and decreased mobility in Parkinsons disease.
  17. 30. Neurotransmitters that influence the perception of pain or pleasure.
  18. 31. Helps control alertness and arousal, undersupply can depress mood.
  19. 33. calm things down, talks yourself out of danger.
  20. 35. 85% of the brains weight, enables perceiving, thinking, and speaking, and has four lobes
  21. 36. hunger, thirst, body temperature
  22. 38. travels through the bloodstream
  23. 39. A major excitatory neurotransmitter, involved in memory. Oversupply can overestimulate the brain, producing migraines or seizures.
  24. 41. crossover point, intermost region of brain
  25. 42. A major inhibitory neurotransmitter, undersupply is linked to seizures, tremors, and insomnia.
  26. 43. connects hindbrain and forebrain, in charge of vision and memory
Down
  1. 1. aggression/fear
  2. 2. danger!
  3. 4. "Little brain" enables non-verbal learning and skill memory
  4. 6. _____ system that contains your emotions and drives
  5. 8. ______ _______ travels down the AXON
  6. 9. (Positron Emission Tomography) - brain activity "hot spots"
  7. 11. Ancient man who located the mind is in the heart
  8. 13. (netlike) filters incoming stimuli and relays information to other areas (in brainstem)
  9. 16. ______ gland - produces and releases several hormones that help carry out important bodily functions.
  10. 18. meeting point between neurons
  11. 20. Ancient man who located the mind in the brain
  12. 24. molecule that blocks transmission
  13. 25. (magnetic resonance imaging) - mapping brain structure
  14. 26. Building blocks (basic) of our nervous system
  15. 32. CORDERNATES MOVEMENT AND CONTROLS SLEEP (ABOVE THE MEDULLA ON TEH BRAINSTEM)
  16. 34. Reabsorption by sending neuron; "What happens after a signal is transmitted: The neurotransmitter, it's "Work" completed, is reabsorbed back into the cell that previously released it
  17. 37. cognitive activities, sensory and associative functions, voluntary motor actions
  18. 40. (Magnetoencephalography) - tasked brain activity