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The brains ability to change especially during childhood.Builds pathway based on experience.
Ex.Maturing overtime.
Connects the two brain hemispheres and carries messages between them.
Ex.Without it we wouldn't be able to process touch. Not being aware
a condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brains two hemispheres.
Ex.Impairment can result in split-brain syndrome, a condition where the separation of the hemispheres affects behavior and agency.
The body's ultimate control and information processing center.
Ex.
Receives sensory input for touch and body position.
Ex. Processing someone trying to teach you to read.
Receives information from the visual fields.
Ex. Allows us to see whats in front of us. Stoping at a stop sign.
Involved in speaking and muscle movement and in making plans and judgements.
Ex.Choosing the college and major you wish to pursue.
Receives information from the opposite ear.
Ex.Hearing the conversation of the person next to you
Controls voluntary movements.
Ex.Allows us to walk, run, or jump.
Processes touch and movement sensation.
Ex.Coveribg your ears after hearing a sharp disturbing noise. Processing and reacting.
Ability to speak.
Ex. Giving a lecture.
Loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.
Ex.Not understanding what the other person is trying to convey.
Processes the words we hear.
Ex.Picturing an image in your head because you understand the words to the book.
The body's "slow" chemical communication system. A set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.
Ex.
Controls heartbeat, breathing and blood pressure.
Ex.keeping a balanced blood pressure.
The brain's sensory control center. It directs messages to the sensory and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla.
Ex.Feel and react. Taking our hand off the stove top when we feel our hand getting hot.
The oldest part of the brain, its responsible for autonomic survival functions.
Ex.Keeps our heartbeat going.
chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream and affect other tissues.
Ex.Regulates maturity.
Regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.
Ex.Getting taller as you age.
Pair of endocrine glands it secrete hormones that help arouse the body in stressful situations.
Ex.Dealing with a stressful situation.
Associates with emotion and drives.
Ex. Punching a kid after annoying you.
Nervous network that helps with controlling arousal.
Ex. Focusing on one aspect and putting your mind to it.
Processes sensory input, coordinates movement output and balance, and enables nonverbal learning and memory.
Ex. Standing on one foot, like playing hop scotch.
Part of the limbic system linked to emotion.
Ex.Seeing a muse and jumping on the bed to safety.
Directs maintenance activities such as eating drinking and body temperature.
Ex.Eating a meal.
Scans show brain anatomy. Magnetic fields and radio waves produce computer generated images of soft tissue.
Ex.Detecting problems after a really bad car accident
Natural or experimental caused destruction of brain tissue.
Ex.Being in a coma, vomitting, or having a headache.
Recording of the waves of electrical activity sweeping across the brains surface.
Ex.Helps with diagnosing conditions such as sleeping disorder.
Reveals bloodflow therefore brain activity by comparing MRI scans.
Ex.used to get a even farther better understand of your brain.
Visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain preform tasks.
Ex.Studys the conditions of your body to detect a certain problem.
the network of nerve cells and fibers that transmits nerve impulses between parts of the body.
Ex. How does it work with other body systems?
It helps send messages to the brain of the temperature of the cardiovascular system for monitoring and regulation.
carry information from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord.
Ex.Feeling when someone is tickling you.
Calm the body, conserving its energy.
Ex.After having a big meal, you feel tired, yur heartbeat decreases, and your blood pressure lowers.
Sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to your body.
Ex.Damage can result in how we take in the environment around us.
Composed of the brain and spinal cord.
Receives sensory information from the nervous system and controls body response.
Ex. Damage to this may result in problems with sensory processing, reactions, and also thought and emotions.
Controls the body's skeletal muscles.
Ex. taking a hit to the head results in a collapse.
Controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs.
Ex.Keeps us alive. Helps with breathing.
Carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.
Ex.Helps us to do thing like pour coffee in the morning.
Arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situations.
Ex.Feeling nervous on a first date and sweating a lot.
Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate between sensory and motor neurons.
Ex. Being unable to get out of bed in the morning because your motor neurons never got the message.