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| bundle of nerve fibers that transfers info from one hemisphere to the other |
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| a lengthy depression marking off an area of the brain |
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| the alertness control center of the brain that regulates the activity level of the body |
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| reticular activating system |
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| system of all the glands and their chemical messages taken together |
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| chemical regulators that control bodily processes such as emotional responses, growth, and sexuality |
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| the master gland of the body that activates other glands and controls the growth hormone |
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| hormone that regulates the growth process |
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| controls and regulates the speed of bodily processes called metabolism |
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| the speed at which the body operates of the speed at which it uses up energy |
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| glands that release the hormone that causes excitement in order to prepare the body for an emergency |
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| chemical that prepares the body for emergency activity by increasing blood pressure, breathing rate, and energy level |
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| the result when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree. It is an association of symptoms produced by disruption of or interference with the connection between the hemispheres of the brain. |
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| the capacity of the nervous system to change its structure and, its function over a lifetime, in reaction to environmental diversity |
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