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| source of all our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors |
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| techniques on studying the brain |
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| clinical observation, manipulating the brain, recording electric activity, neuroimaging. |
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| oldest and central core of brain, automatic survival functions |
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| controls heart rate, breathing, and swallowing |
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| control sleep and arousal |
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| controls arousal, sleep, and attention |
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| 'little brain', controls coordination, voluntary movement, and rhythm |
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| associated with emotions and drives |
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| relay station for sensory info, all sensory info goes through this |
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| regulates eating, drinking, and body temp; reward center |
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| process memory, important for new info |
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| controls and processes info for body |
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| frontal and parietal lobes |
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| handle relationship b/w sensory, motor areas, judgment, and high mental tasks |
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| ability to modify itself after some types of damage |
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| connects hemispheres of brain |
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| carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs inward to the brain |
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| carry outgoing messages from the nervous system to muscles |
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| intervene in the other neurons in central nervous system, carries to internal communication system |
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| receives messages from other neurons |
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| passes messages from neuron to neuron and muscles and glands |
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| fatty tissue that helps seed up rate of neuro transmissions |
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| level of stimulation needed to trigger nerve impulse |
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| another term for neural impulse (electrical charge that travels down the axon) |
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