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| outermost layer of the brain; controls high-level thinking and mental skills |
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| depression which divides the right and left hemispheres of the brain |
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| bundle of nerve fibers; transfers information from one half of the cerebral cortex to the other |
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| divids cerebral cortex into 3 parts: motor strip, prefrontal area, and frontal association. |
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| feeling; touch, tempurature, pain; helps you be aware of your body and what it is doing |
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| responsible for making movements |
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| registers and provides all sensation |
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| enables us to re-experience past memores. connects emotions/behavior to memories |
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| interprets visual information |
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| responsible for hearing and some speech functions |
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| elaborate mental connections; integrates personality and forms complex thoughts |
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| regulates basic functions such as breathing |
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| relay station: directs incoming and outgoing messages from the body to the brain and the brain to the body; "fight or flight" response |
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| regulates basic needs such as hunger/thirst, body temperature and emotions such as pleasure, fear, rage, sexuality |
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| basic emotions/mood/attitude and memory |
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| emotion, especially aggression |
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| forming memories, allows us to navigate in space and remember where we are |
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| part of the lower brain; coordinates balance and body movements |
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| reticular activating system (RAS) |
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| the alertness control center, screens information and passes it to the brain |
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| nerve cell that conducts electrochemical signals |
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| branches on a neuron that recieves information from the axons of the other neurons |
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| conducts inpulses/transmits signals; carreis messages away from the cell to the dendrites on another neuron |
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| chemicals in the ending on neurons that send information across the synapses |
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| neurotransmitter involved in the control of the bodily movements |
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| neurotransmitters that relieve pain and increase our sense of well-being |
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| the brain and spinal cord |
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| peripheral nervous system |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| energizes and prepares for emergencies |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| conserves bodily activity; works in opposition to the sympathetic system to calm us down |
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| units of the body that contain the hormones |
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| the master gland; activates other glands and controls growth hormone |
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| controls and regulates the speed of metabolism |
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| glands that cause excitments in order to prepare body for an emergency or for some important activity |
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| neural and biochemical bases of behavior an mental processes |
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| vital functions; same functions as the brainstem: basic survival functions |
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| part of the brainstem; way station |
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| emotions, memory, thought |
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