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| Of the three types of neurons, there are the most ... |
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| Interneurons are located in ... |
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| the brain and spinal cord. |
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| In a reflex arc, __________ take over for the brain. |
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| _______ believed that it was silly to break the reflex arc into stages. He was a _________. |
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| The nervous system can be broken down into the ____________ and the ____________. |
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| central nervous system, peripheral nervous system |
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| The CNS is made up of the _______ and _______. |
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| The two parts of the peripheral nervous system are the _______________ and the ______________. |
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| The _____________ is responsible for voluntary muscle movement and for sensory reception of external stimuli. |
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| Walter Cannon did pioneering work on the ___________ and developed the concept of ______________. |
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| autonomic nervous system, homeostatus |
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| The _____________ regulates involuntary muscle movements involved in heartbeat, respiration, and digestion. |
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| The two subdivisions of the ANS are the ___________ and the ___________. |
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| sympathetic, parasympathetic |
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| The ___________ is associated with "resting and digesting." |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| The _________________ is associated with "fight or flight." |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| The neurotransmitter responsible for parasympathetic ("rest and digest") responses in the body is _______________. |
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| What happens when the sympathetic nervous system is activated? |
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| hear rate, blood sugar level, and respiration all increase, pupils dilate, digestion decreases, and adrenaline pumps. |
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| three basic subdivisions of the brain |
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| hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain |
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| The hindbrain is associated with ... |
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| vital functions (like balance, motor coordination, breathing, digestion, arousal - as in sleeping and waking). |
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| The midbrain is associated with ... |
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| The forebrain is associated with ... |
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| complex behavioral, cognitive, and perceptual processes, emotion and memory. |
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| The ________ and ________ form the brainstem. |
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| The __________________ is associated with emotion (aggression, fear, pleasure, pain)and memory. |
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| Language processing, problem solving, impulse control, and long-term planning are all associated with the _____________. |
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| The term for evolutionary development in humans is ______________. |
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| The medulla oblongata is responsible for _______________ and is located in the __________________. |
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| vital functions (breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure), hindbrain |
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| The sensory and motor tracts between the medulla and the cortex are located in the __________. |
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| The _____________ is responsible for posture, balance, and the coordination of body movements. |
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| Damage to the ___________ might result in slurred speech and a loss of balance. Alcohol interferes with this brain structure. |
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| Arousal, alertness, and attention are associated with the ____________________. Anesthetics affect this part of the brain. |
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| The midbrain is associated with reflex responses triggered by _____________ stimuli. |
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| If you react reflexively to a sudden noise, the part of the brain involved is the _________ located in the _______________. |
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| inferior colliculus, midbrain |
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| The ___________ is the part of the midbrain that receives visual sensory input, and the _____________ is the part of the brain that receives auditory sensory input. |
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| superior colliculus, inferior colliculus |
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| The ____________ is a structure in the forebrain that serves as a relay station for sensory information except for __________. |
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| The sensory way-station that transmits incoming sensory impulses to the appropriate places in the cerebral cortex is the _____________. |
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| The ___________ are in charge of movement. |
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| The ____________ is in charge of feeding, fighting, fleeing, and sexuality. |
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| The maintenance of water balance in the body is called ___________ and is regulated by the ____________. |
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| osmoregulation, hypothalamus |
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| The ___________ is the part of the brain associated with homeostatic functions |
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| _____________ are the receptors in the _________that regulate the balance of water in the body. |
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| Osmoreceptors, hypothalamus |
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| Hunger is associated with the ___________. |
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| If your lateral hypothalamus is busted, you won't feel ___________. This is called ___________. |
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| The _________________ is associated with satiety. If it's busted, you'll have ____________. |
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| ventromedial hypothalamus, hyperphagia |
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| The _________________ manages the "fight or flight" responses associated with the _______________. |
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| hypothalamus, sympathetic nervous system |
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| Cats with a _________ but no _________ display _____________, random rage not directed at any provocation. |
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| hypothalamus, cerebral cortex, "sham rage" |
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| Cats with neither ____________ nor ____________ couldn't put together an aggressive response. |
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| The ______________ is associated with aggressive sexual behavior. |
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| Name the three parts of the hypothalamus and their functions. |
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Lateral - hunger
Ventromedial - satiety
Anterior - sexuality |
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| The ___________ coordinates muscle movement based on the information it receives from the cortex. |
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| The basal ganglia relays information about muscle movement to the ________ and _______ through the _________________. |
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| brain, spinal cord, extrapyramidal motor system |
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| The basal ganglia relays information about muscle movement to the ________ and _______ through the _________________. |
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| brain, spinal cord, extrapyramidal motor system |
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| The ___________ gathers information about body position. |
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| extrapyramidal motor system |
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| A chronic disease associated with the ___________ is Parkinson's. This part of the brain may also be implicated in ___________. |
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| basal ganglia, schizophrenia |
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| _________ are fluid-filled cavities in the brain that link up with the spinal canal. They're filled with _____________. |
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| Ventricles, cerebrospinal fluid |
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| Enlarged ventricles may have something to do with ____________. |
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| The ___________ is associated with emotion and memory. |
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| Three parts of the limbic system are the ________________________. |
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| septum, amygdala, and hippocampus |
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| James _______ and Peter _______ discovered that stimulation of the _________ is so pleasurable that starving rats preferred it to eating. |
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| If the ________is damaged, aggressive behavior goes unchecked. This is known as _______________. |
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| The ________ is associated with defensive and aggressive behavior. |
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| Lesions to the ___________ result in docility and hypersexuality. |
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| ___________ Syndrome is what happened to the monkeys when they removed their amygdala. |
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| The hippocampus is important to ________. |
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| HM had __________ amnesia because of damage to his ___________. |
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| __________ was the woman who worked with HM. |
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| The wrinkles in the cortex are known as _____________. |
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| The four parts of the cortex are the ___________. |
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| frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes. |
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| The two parts of the frontal lobe are the ______________________. |
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| prefrontal lobes and motor cortex |
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| The prefrontal cortex serves as ... |
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| supervisor of many other brain regions, it doesn't remember; it reminds you that you have something you have to remember. |
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| The prefrontal cortex is an example of an ____________ are, while the visual and motor cortexes are examples of ________________. |
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| Damage to the _____________ may lead a person to be more impulsive or apathetic. |
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| ________________ was used to treat schizophrenia. |
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| The __________ initiates voluntary movement. It's got a space for each part of the body. |
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| __________ is part of the ________________ vital to speech. It's only on one side (usually the left). |
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| Broca's area, frontal lobe |
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