Interneurons
Central Nervous System
- Neurons in the central nervous system that communicate between sensory inputs and motor outputs
- For example when my dad's isn't home and need to tell me something he will tell my mom to tell me and I'll tell my mom my answer to tell my dad
Hormones
- The Central Nervous System consist of the brain and the spinal cord
- For example when I'm cooking and I touch something hot my sensory receptors will send the signal to my spinal cord then to my brain
- Hormones are the chemical messengers in our body
- The are like text messages they come in all at one time when your a teenager then as you get older you dont text as much as you did when you were younger
Somatic Nervous System
Peripheral Nervous System
- Controls Voluntary muscle movement
- My brain is telling my finger to type this right now because I'm choosing to do my homework
- Is the connector between the central nervous system and the body's muscles, glands, and sensory receptors
- I think of this as the power cord between the computer and the electricity because with out the power cord our muscle and receptors wouldn't know how to react
Nervous System
Adrenal Glands
Nervous System
The Endocrine system
- The endocrine system is what controls all of our hormones
- The endocrine system is like my dad because he helps control all the women in the house
The Endocrine system
- A communication network that is made up of cells consisting of the peripheral and central nervous system
- For example when I send an email and my teacher receives it and we're able to communicate with email
- Produce hormones such as adrenalin and steroid hormones
- They are like when a guy does too much weight lifting they have a lot og adrenalin and look like they are on steroids
Autonomic Nervous System
- The part of the peripheral nervous sytem that controls the automatic functions for our body
- Some automatic functions are getting hungry and the need to go to the bathroom
Sensory Neurons
Sympathetic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Nervous System
- The Sympathetic controls our heart rate, blood pressure, and and our sweat when we are nervous
- My heart rate gets super fast when I hang out with the guy I like because I get nervous
- This is the oppostie of sympathic this calms us and makes us relaxed
- Much like after I eat a burrito and I feel like I can't move because my tummy is so happy
- The Sensory Neurons carry the signals for the body's tissue and organs towards the brain and spinal cord
- The sensory Neurons remind me of little mail carriers and how they send messages to the brain and spinal cord
Motor Neurons
- Motor Neurons however carry the outgoing messages from the central nervous system to muscles and glands
- Motor Neurons remind me of the post office because they have out going mail
Pituitary Gland
- Produces hormones that have to do with puberty
- This is like the puberty button in Inside Out
Wernicke's Area
Neuroimiaging
Frontal Lobe
Aphasia
- This area processes the words we hear
- I think of Auto correct because sometimes we may hear the wrong word and have to go back and ask the person to repeat them selves like when we type if we get a word wrong we go back and fix it
- Controls thought process and reasoning as well as speaking and muscle movement
- Like my mom she makes me think about my thought process so I don't say anything or do anything dumb
- The impairment of understanding or speaking a language
- Although I know I don't have aphasia it reminds me of when I cant say certain words
Divided Brain
Cerebellum
Parietal Lobe
Lesion
Broca's Area
- Controls our balance, muscle movement, and emotions
- Like Crutches or athletic tape they help our balance or muscles
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- Control center of sensory information
- How I know my curling iron is hot is by my barley touching it and I feel the heat
- Controls the ability to speak
- For example I know I don't have anything wrong with this area but when I'm stressed or excited my words get jumbled up.
- I think of it as some thing like radiation therapy since is going and destroying cells
Limbic System
Brainstem
- The Limbic System helps control the autonomic nervous system the four F's
- The Limbic system is like an internal alarm clock because it is set to tell us things at certain times
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI)
- Controls basic body functions also the messages between the brain and the rest of the body
- The Brainstem is like a good friend they hold you up and help you with your needs
Plasticity
Cerebral Cortex
- Allows you to see soft tissue and different structures of the brain
- Much like and x-ray for the brain
Medulla
- The medulla is what keeps the body working, controls most functions
- The medulla reminds me of my mom with out her I would be able to work
Functional MRI
- The brain being able to adapt to change when something goes wrong
- Like when skin get hurt it easily starts to heal and take on a new form
- Shows Blood flow and brain activity
- Some what like an ultrasound for your brain
Cerebral Cortex
Electroencephalogram
(EEG)
- Brian wave measurement
- I would think of this much like a measurement graph
- Outer part of the brain; controls thinking processing and action
- Kind of like my grandma She can be wrinkly and makes me think and in a way controls my actions
Corpus Callosum
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
The Brain
- Measures he activity of the brain while given a task to work on
- Much like naturalistic observation
- The communicator of fibers between the 2 hemispheres of the brain
- I think of it as the wall in between mine and my sisters room because we used to knock on it and answer back when we were little
Occipital Lobe
Motor Cortex
Split Brain
- The main controller of our voluntary movement
- For example a puppet master controlling the puppets movement
- Is the lobe that controls vision
- This lobe reminds me of my glasses because with their help I can see
- A normal condition where the 2 hemispheres of the brain are split
- Much like Identical twins they look the same but are not connected or act the same
Temporal Lobe
Sensory Cortex
- Processes body touch and as well as movement sensations
- For example sometimes when you kiss you get tingly feelings
Thalamus
- Processes our sound and is the control center for our hearing
- Is our hearing aid inside of our brain
- The thalamus is were we store all of our information for all of our senses expect of hearing
- The Thalamus is like my Binder I store everything I need in there expect for my pencils because and only pull out the info if I need it
Reticular Formation
Amygadala
- It helps sensory info pass thought the spinal cord and the thalamus
- The reticular Formation is like a one way street
- Controls basic emotion such as fear and aggression
- Like the Little character from Inside Out anger
Hypothamlus
- Controls body maintenance like body temp and receives messages from other parts of the brain
- Like a thermostat
Neuroscience Concept Map
By MAriah Beltran