How the Nervous System Works
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| Sigmund Freud | show 🗑
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| Cerebral Cortex | show 🗑
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| show | -Located at the front of the brain
-Associated with reasoning, motor skills, higher level cognition, and expressive language
-Damage can lead to increased risk taking.
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| show | -Located at the middle section of the brain
-Associated with processing tactile sensory information
-Damage can lead to problems with verbal memory
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| show | -Located on the bottom section of the brain
-Important for interpreting sounds and the language we hear.
-Hippocampus located here
-Damage can lead to speech/memory problems
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| show | -Located at the back of the brain
-Associated with interpreting visual stimuli and information
-Damage can cause visual problems.
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| 3 major components of the brain: | show 🗑
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| Brainstem | show 🗑
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| show | Plays an important role in balance but also involved with attention.
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| show | -Makes up 75% of the brain
-Divided into 2 hemispheres
-Cerebral Cortex
-Thalamus
-Hypothalamus
-Pituitary Gland
-90% of all brain neurons are located here
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| show | A property that allows the brain to change as a result of experience, drugs, or injury.
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| Neurons | show 🗑
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| 2 Main nervous systems | show 🗑
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| show | -Sensory
-Transmit impulses from the periphery toward the central nervous system.
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| Efferent Neurons | show 🗑
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| Parts of a Neuron | show 🗑
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| Dendrites | show 🗑
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| show | Collects/processes information from other neurons.
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| show | Fatty covering that insulates axon, speeding up the signal.
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| Resting Membrane Potential | show 🗑
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| show | Ions maintain the resting membrane potential via ion channels.
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| show | Changes in neurons electrical charge.
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| Resting Membrane Potential | show 🗑
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| Depolarization | show 🗑
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| Repolarization | show 🗑
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| All-Or-None Principle | show 🗑
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| Synapse | show 🗑
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| Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| show | Only certain neurotransmitters bind with certain receptors.
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| show | The one that releases a neurotransmitter in response to an action potential.
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| Post-Synaptic | show 🗑
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| Types of Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| show | Function: regulates emotional states and impulses
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| Dopamine | show 🗑
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| Acetylcholine | show 🗑
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| show | How traits, such as height or eye color, are passed to offspring.
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