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| Primary motor area, somatosensory area, visual area, auditory, and association. |
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| Connects Two Hemispheres of the brain |
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| Memory, especially episodes |
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| mediating emotion, especially fear |
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| Directs incoming information from the sense receptors to the cerebrum; helps control sleep and wakefulness |
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| Mediates eating, drinking and sexual behavior; regulates endocrine activity and maintains homeostasis; has a part in emotion and response to stress. |
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| Concerned with the coordination of movement and motor learning. |
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| Helps control arousal and focus attention on specific stimulii |
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| Controls breathing and reflexes to help maintain upright posture. |
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| Carries messages to and from teh sense receptors, muscles and surface of the body. |
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| Connects with the internal organs and glands. |
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| Regulates primitive behaviors |
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| Outer Layer of cerebrum "gray matter" |
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| groove that separates frontal lobe from rest of brain. |
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| Directly in front of central fissure, different areas of PMA cause different body parts to move. |
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| Primary Somatosensory Area |
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| Opposite side of central fissure from Primary motor area, Different areas of PSA connected to senses of different parts of body. |
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| At back of each occipital lobe. |
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| Located at the side of each hemisphere. Different areas represent different tones. |
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| Right visual field, Main language center, calculation, speech writing, olfaction left nostril |
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| Left visual field, nonverbal ideation, spacial construction, olfaction right nostril. |
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| language deficits caused by brain damage |
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| Temporal lobe of left hemisphere, understanding of verbal communication. |
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| sympathetic nercous system |
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| active during intense arousal |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| chemicals secreted by the endocrine glands into the bloodstream and transported to other parts of teh body, where they have specific effects on cells that recognize their message. |
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| Combines the methods of genetics and psychology to study the inheritance of behavioraal characeristics. |
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| yields traits that promote reproductive success in the sex with the greater potential reproductive rate. |
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| connected to alzheimer's disease, controls muscles, some nerve gases block the release which results in you stopping breathing. |
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| Connected to mood, Cocaine and amphetamines increase amounts by slowing reuptake, lithium speeds up reuptake |
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| Intense feelings of pleasure, connected to addiction, schizophrenia (too much), parkinsons disease (too little) |
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| mood regulation, low levels connected to depression, lsd binds to it |
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| depolarizes neurons, schizophrenia |
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| Gamma-aminobutryric acid, inhibitory transmitter. |
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| a specialized cell that transmits neural impulses or messages to other neuron, glands, and muscles |
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| receive neural impulses from adjacent neurons. |
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| slender tube that extends from teh soma and transmits messages to other neurons |
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| slight gap between the terminal button and the cell body or dendrites of the receiving neuron |
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| a chemical that diffuses across the synaptic gap and stimulates the next neuron |
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| a buncle of elongated axons belonging to hundreds or thousands of neurons |
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| nonneural cells in the nervous system, glue/padding |
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| an electrochemical impulse that travels from teh cell body down to the end of the axon |
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| doughnut shaped protein molecules that form pores across the cell membrane, regulate flow of ions such as NA, K, Ca, and Cl |
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| resting membrane potential |
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| electrical potential of a neuron at rest |
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| nerve impulse jumps from one node of ranvier to the next |
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| gap between myelin sheathes |
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| glial cell wrapped around axon which speeds up electrical transmissions |
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| proteins lodged in the dendritic membrane of the receiving or postsynaptic neuron |
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| reabsorption of the neurotransmitter by the synaptic terminals from which it was released |
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| the reaction of enzymes in a synaptic gap with the neurotransmitter to break it up chemically and make it inactive |
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