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30 Cards in this Set
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Acetylcholine |
(excites) involved in muscle action, learning and memory; too low causes Alzheimers |
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Dopamine |
(inhibitor) controls voluntary movement, affects sleep, mood, attention, learning and ability to recog. rewarding experiences (out going); too low Parkinsons, too high schzophrenia |
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Norepinephrine |
(excites and inhibits) moods; too low bipolar |
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Serotonin |
(excites) regulates sleep, mood, attention; low levels is depression |
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GABA |
low levels causes anxiety |
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Endorphines |
natural opiates; pleasure not pain |
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Central Nervous System |
Brain and spinal cord |
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Peripheral |
Somatic and Autonomic |
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Somatic |
pain and temp and motor nerves; tell muscles what to do |
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Autonomic |
internal organs; breathing, heart rate, digestion; Sympathetic and Parasympathetic |
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Sympathetic |
fight or flight |
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Parasympathetic |
Calms/ deactivates/ puts back into balance |
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Medulla |
(tampon of brain) life functions/keeps you alive/ heart rate/ breathing |
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Pons |
sleep/arousal/attention/concentration (ADD/ADHD) |
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Cerebellum |
fine motor coordinator/ repetitive movement |
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Reticular Formation |
sleep and waking cycles |
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Corpus Callosom |
connects both hemispheres |
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Thalamus |
master relay station/telephone |
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Hypothalamus |
your drives (hunger/sex/thirst) |
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Hippocampus |
memory |
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Limpic System |
thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala; |
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Amygdala |
strong emotions (anger, etc) |
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4 F's |
fight, flight, food, SEX |
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Occipital |
visual cortex/ vision |
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Temporal |
auditory cortex/ memory |
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Frontal |
who you are/ logic & reasoning |
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Parietal |
sensations/feeling things/ where you are in space |
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Motor cortex |
voluntary movement, just behind frontal lobe |
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Somatosensory cortex |
body sensations, front of parietal lobe |
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Association cortex |
thinking and problem solving |
