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| Controls thinking, planning, organizing, problem solving, short-term memory and movement |
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| Interprets sensory information, such as taste, temperature and touch. |
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| Processes images from your eyes and links that information with images stored in memory. |
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| Process information from your senses of smell, taste and sound. They also play a role in memory storage. |
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| The wrinkled ball of tissue below and behind the rest of your brain. It works to combine sensory information from the eyes, ears and muscles to help coordinate movement. |
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| It controls many functions vital to life, such as heart rate, blood pressure and breathing. This area is also important for sleep. Links the brain to the spinal cord. |
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| Acts as a gatekeeper for messages passed between the spinal cord and the cerebral hemispheres. |
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| Controls emotions. It also regulates your body's temperature and controls crucial urges — such as eating or sleeping. |
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| Sends memories to be stored in appropriate sections of the cerebrum and then recalls them when necessary. |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| The system that makes up all the nerves in your body, aside from the ones in your brain and spinal cord. It acts as a communication relay between your brain and your extremities. |
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| Receive incoming messages from other nerve cells. |
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| Carry outgoing signals from the cell body to other cells — such as a nearby neuron or muscle cell. |
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| A ______ communicates with other cells through electrical impulses when the nerve cell is stimulated. Within a _____, the impulse moves to the tip of an axon and causes the release of neurotransmitters, chemicals that act as messengers. |
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| ____________ pass through the synapse, the gap between two nerve cells, and attach to receptors on the receiving cell. This process repeats from neuron to neuron, as the impulse travels to its destination — a web of communication that allows you to move, think, feel and communicate. |
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