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| Specialized cells in the nervous system that send and receive information throughout the body |
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| A bundle of nerves that connects the brain to the rest of the body |
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| Chemical messages that travel between nerve cells and muscles to trigger or prevent an impulse in the receiving cell |
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| The brain and spinal chord |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| The nerves that connect the brain and spinal chord with the organs and tissues of the body |
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| A division of the peripheral nervous system that sends commands to voluntary skeletal muscles and receives sensory information from the muscles and skin |
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| The division of the peripheral nervous system the controls movement of involuntary non-skeletal muscles |
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| Sympathetic Nervous System |
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| The part of the autonomic nervous system that activates the body's energy resources to deal with threatening situations |
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| Parasympathetic Nervous System |
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| The part of the autonomic nervous system that conserves and maintains the body's energy resources |
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| A network of glands that manufactures and secretes hormones directly into the bloodstream |
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| Chemical messengers carried by the bloodstream to regulate or stimulate the body |
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| Electroencephalograph (EEG) |
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| A brain imaging technique that records 'waves' of electrical activity in the brain |
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| Computerized Axial Tomograph Scan (CAT scan) |
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| A brain imaging technique that combines thousands of x-ray brain photographs to construct a picture of the brain |
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| Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) |
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| A brain imaging technique that produces a 3D image of the brains soft tissues |
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| Positron Emission Tomography (PET scan) |
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| A brain imaging technique that measures the average neural activity of the different brain regions over a few minutes |
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| Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) |
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| A brain imaging technique that measures the average neural activity in different brain regions over a few seconds |
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| The part of the brain found at the rear base of the skull that controls the most basic biological needs for life |
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| The part of the brain above the hindbrain that plays a role in attention, stimulus and consciousness |
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| The part of the brain above the midbrain that controls emotional reactions, thought processes, movement, sensory information and body temperature |
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| The thinking center of the brain which coordinates and integrates all areas of the brain into a fully functioning unit |
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| The two halves of the cerebral cortex |
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| The four major sections of both cerebral hemispheres |
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| The transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to their children |
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| The basic biochemical units of heredity |
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| Thread like structures found in every cell of your body except red blood cells |
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| Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) |
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| The means by which hereditary characteristics pass from one generation to the next |
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| Dizygotic twins develop from the union of two separate sperms and eggs |
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| Monozygotic twins develop from the union of the same egg and sperm that split and have exactly the same genotype |
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