1. Dysfunctional Brains Parts of The Neuron Nervous System The Lower
Eleanor M. Savko
Dysfunctional
Brains
Parts of
The Neuron
Nervous
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11/27/2018
The Lower
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2. Vocabulary word for brain tissue destruction.

3. lesion

4. Damage to an area of the brain that processes language.

5. aphasia

6. Damage to this railroad worker’s frontal lobe in 1848 caused a drastic change in his personality.

7. Phineas Gage

8. Damage to this area of the brain causes difficulty in forming speech sounds.

9. Broca’s Area

10. Damage to this area of the brain causes difficulty in understanding grammar and syntax.

11. Wernicke’s Area

12. Part of a neuron that receives incoming messages.

13. Dendrites

14. Life support center of the neuron.

15. Cell body

16. This part passes messages away from the cell body.

17. Axon

18. Daily Double

19. These cross synaptic gaps to send messages.

20. Neurotransmitters

21. “Nodes” in the myelin sheath are described with this French word.

22. Ranvier

23. This component of the nervous system controls muscles of the internal organs.

24. Autonomic Nervous System

25. This component of the nervous system controls skeletal muscles.

26. Somatic Nervous System

27. This division of the autonomic nervous system enables the “fight or flight” response.

28. Sympathetic Nervous System

29. This division of the autonomic nervous systems conserves energy and calms the body.

30. Parasympathetic Nervous System

31. Reflexes are controlled by interneurons in this part of the Central Nervous System.

32. The spinal cord

33. The brain’s “sensory switchboard”

34. Thalamus

35. Area of the brain responsible for balance.

36. Cerebellum

37. Part of the brain responsible for memory.

38. Hippocampus

39. Part of the brain that filters incoming stimuli, relays information to other parts of the brain, and helps control arousal.

40. Reticular formation

41. Part of the brain that directs maintenance activities and is linked to emotion.

42. Hypothalamus

43. Part of the brain that controls voluntary motion.

44. Motor cortex.

45. Part of the cerebral cortex that processes sensations.

46. Sensory cortex.

47. Area of the cerebral cortex involved in higher mental functions, such as thinking.

48. Association Areas.

49. Large band of neural fibers connecting the brain’s two hemispheres.

50. Corpus callosum

51. Daily Double

52. Condition in which the two hemispheres of the brain are separated.

53. Split brain