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| Involved in the discrimination of objects that are necessary for the organism's survival, such as appropriate food, mates, and social rivals. Also involved in emotional awareness and expression. |
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| Has a special role regarding memories. However, judges what parts of information passing through should be "printed" into the mind. |
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| Serves as a very important relay station, much like a server in a computer. Sorts information and sends it to the right places. |
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| Works with the cerebellum and cerebral cortex to control and coordinate voluntary movements. Helps people engage in habitual behaviors. |
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| Monitors three pleasurable activities: eating, drinking and sex, as well as emotion, stress and reward. Regulates body's internal state. |
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| Highest region of the forebrain. Most recently developed in the evolutionary scheme. |
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| Responds to visual stimuli. |
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| Involved in hearing, language processing, and memory. Associated with ability to process faces. |
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| Involved in the control of voluntary muscles, intelligence and personality. |
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| Man who had a pipe go through his brain, changing his personality. |
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| Involved in higher cognitive functions such as planning, reasoning and self-control. |
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| Involved in registering spatial location, attention and motor control. |
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| Processes information about body sensations. |
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| Processes information about voluntary movement. |
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| Integrates information that is processed. Highest levels of thinking occur here. |
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| Connects left and right hemisphere. |
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| A set of glands that regulates the activities of certain organs by releasing their chemical products into the bloodstream. |
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| Chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands. |
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| Controls growth and regulates other glands. |
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| Instrumental in regulating moods, energy level, and the ability to cope with stress. |
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| The axons of some healthy neurons adjacent to damaged cells grow new branches. |
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| The damaged region's function is taken over by another area. |
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| The process by which new neurons are generated. |
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| 46 threadlike structures that come in 23 pairs, one member of each pair originating from each parent. Contains DNA. |
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| Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) |
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| A complex molecule that carries genetic information |
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| Units of hereditary information. |
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| Dominant-Recessive Genes Principle |
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| Dominant gene overrides the recessive. A recessive gene exerts its influence only if both genes in a pair are recessive. |
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| A person's genetic heritage, his or her actual genetic material. |
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| Observable characteristics that come from genetic material. |
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