Wiring the Brain: Terms and Principles

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Across
  1. 1. ________ with other people early in life are the major source of development of the emotional and social parts of the brain.
  2. 6. Chemical messengers with coded information.
  3. 8. Protective coating around an axon preventing short-circuiting between neurons.
  4. 11. Information receivers.
Down
  1. 2. Neurotransmitters carrying coded information regulating the onset of sleep.
  2. 3. The outside world is experienced through the _________ enabling the brain to create or modify connections.
  3. 4. Information senders.
  4. 5. The brain operates on a "________ it or lose it" principle.
  5. 7. Connecting place for exchange of chemical information.
  6. 9. Brain cell.
  7. 10. The outside __________ shapes the brain's wiring