Across
- 4. controls muscle contractions and center for learning, emotion, memory, and perception
- 5. distorted perception of reality; psychotic episodes
- 6. input for sensory info going into cerebrum
- 8. molecular mechanism that directs periodic gene expression and cellular activity
- 10. returns back to maintained state
- 13. commonly associated with memory loss and confusion
- 14. difference in function between the left and right hemispheres of the brain
- 19. controls digestive excretion
- 20. maintains regulation of calmness
- 21. hemisphere that dictates logic
- 22. body's thermostat and main biological clock
- 23. relates to flight-or-fight response
- 24. helps capture experiences into recallable memories
- 25. band of axons that allows communication between the right and left cerebral cortices
- 27. nervous system that controls skeletal muscles
- 29. forms thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus
Down
- 1. encourages arousal and energy generation
- 2. made of neurons that control sleep periods
- 3. plans movement sequences
- 7. experiencing lack of pleasure or interest
- 9. contains midbrain, pons, and medulla
- 11. nervous system that controls involuntary movement
- 12. coordinates visual reflexes
- 15. source of melatonin
- 16. daily cycle of biological activity
- 17. coordinates motor skills (balance, movement)
- 18. hemisphere that dictates recognition
- 26. clustered neurons in hypothalamus
- 28. active state of the brain, contrary to common belief