Chapter 2
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| show | Networks of specialized info-carrying cells.
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| Glial cells | show 🗑
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| show | Fatty, waxy substance that insulates portions of some neurons in the nervous system.
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| Cell body | show 🗑
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| show | The chemical found in the nuclei of cells that contain the genetic blueprint that guides development in the organism.
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| Dendrites | show 🗑
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| Synapse | show 🗑
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| Presynaptic neuron | show 🗑
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| Postsynaptic neuron | show 🗑
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| show | Charged particles that play an important role in the firing of action potentials on the nervous system.
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| show | Potential difference that exists in the neuron when it is resting.
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| Threshold of excitation (-55 mv) | show 🗑
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| Action potential | show 🗑
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| All-or-nothing fashion | show 🗑
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| show | Brief period after a neuron has fired an action potential in which the neuron is inhibited and unlikely to fire another action potential.
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| show | When a neurotransmitter binds with the postsynaptic cell and makes it more likely to fire an action potential.
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| Inhibition | show 🗑
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| show | Process by which unused neurotransmitters are recycled back into the vesicles.
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| ACh (acetylcholine) | show 🗑
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| show | Primarily inhibitory in the brain, but like most neurotransmitters, it is also known to be excitatory. Related to muscle movement, learning, and attention.
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| Serotonin | show 🗑
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| NOR (norepinephrine) | show 🗑
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| show | The body's chief inhibitory neurotransmitter, which plays a role on regulating arousal.
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| Glutamate | show 🗑
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| Endorphines | show 🗑
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| show | An electrochemical system of communication within the body that uses cells called neurons to convey info.
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| show | The brain and spinal cord.
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| show | All of the nervous system except the brain and spinal cord.
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| Sensory neurons (afferent) | show 🗑
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| Motor neurons (efferent) | show 🗑
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| Somatic nervous system | show 🗑
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| Autonomic nervous system | show 🗑
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| Sympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | Branch of the autonomic nervous system most active during times of normal functioning.
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| Hindbrain | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the hindbrain that cotrols basic, life-sustaining functions such as respiration, heart rate, and blood pressure.
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| show | Hindbrain structure that plays a role in respiration, consciousness, sleep, dreaming, facial movement, sensory processes, and the transmission of neural signals from one part of the brain to another.
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| show | Hindbrain structure that plays a role in balance, muscle tone, and coordination of motor movements.
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| Midbrain | show 🗑
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| Reticular formation | show 🗑
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| show | Brain structures including the limbic system, thalamus, hypothalamus, and cortex that governs high-order mental processes.
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| show | System of structures including the amygdala and hippocampus that governs certain aspects of emotion, motivation, and memory.
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| Cerebral cortex | show 🗑
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| Cerebral hemispheres | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the limbic system that plays a role in our emotions of fear and aggression.
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| show | Part of brain that plays a role in the transfer of information from short to long term memory.
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| Thalamus | show 🗑
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Homeostasis | show 🗑
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| Frontal lobe | show 🗑
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| Parietal lobe | show 🗑
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| Occipital lobe | show 🗑
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| Temporal lobe | show 🗑
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| Broca’s area | show 🗑
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| Aphasia | show 🗑
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| Wernicke’s area | show 🗑
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| Corpus callosum | show 🗑
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| show | A brain with its corpus callosum severed; sometimes done to control the effects of epilepsy in patients who don’t respond to other therapies.
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| show | Areas of the cortex involved in the association or integration of info from the motor-sensory areas of the cortex.
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| Motor cortex | show 🗑
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| show | A strip of cortex at the front of the parietal lobe that governs our sense of touch.
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| Visual cortex | show 🗑
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| Auditory cortex | show 🗑
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| Endocrine glands | show 🗑
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| Hormones | show 🗑
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| show | Master gland of the endocrine system that controls the action of all other glands in the body.
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| Estrogens | show 🗑
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| show | A class of male hormones found in both males and females.
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| show | Central part of the adrenal gland that plays a crucial role in the functioning of the sympathetic nervous system.
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| Adrenal cortex | show 🗑
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| show | The degree to which biology (nature) or the environment (nurture) contributes to one's development.
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| Genes | show 🗑
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| Interactionism | show 🗑
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| Epigenetics | show 🗑
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| show | Inherited genetic pattern for a given trait.
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| Phenotype | show 🗑
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| show | Darwin's theory states that genes for traits allow an organism to be reproductively successful, will be selected/retained in a species and genes for traits that hinder reproductive success will not be selected and therefore will die out in a species.
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| Motor cortex | show 🗑
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| show | A strip of cortex at the front of the parietal lobe that governs our sense of touch.
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| Visual cortex | show 🗑
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