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| Axon | long fibers that send electrical impulses and release neurotransmitters |
| Brain Stem | Oldest part of the brain, it connects the spinal cord with the forebrain and cerebelum. Instincts. |
| Cerebral hemisphere | Thinking part of your brain. |
| Cortex | The highly wrinkled outer layer of the cerebrum and cerebellum (forehead) |
| Limbic System | Controls emotions. |
| Limbic System | a group of subcortical structers of the brain that are concerned especially with emotions and motivation |
| Cerebral hemisphere | Higher order of thinking |
| Synapse | the space between nerve cells; the point at which a nervous impulse passes from on neuron to another |
| Sensory gating | also called the neuron spike point, regulates the transmission of stimuli to the brain |
| Sensory flooding | Sensory overload, this happens when too much data is getting through to the brain |
| Dendrite | Any of the usually branching protoplasmic processes that conduct impulses towards the body of a nerve cell |
| Neuron | a grayish or reddish granular cell with specialized processess that is the fundamental functional unit of newcous tissue in the brain |
| Neurotransmitter | a chemical molecule tha transmit nerbve impulses across a synapse, within and between brain cell |
| Neural plasticity | concerns that property of neural circuitry to potentially acguire nearly any function. |
| Frontal Lobes | Associated with making decisions, planning, and voluntary muscle movement |
| Frontal Lobes | Speech, smell and emotions are processed here. |
| Parietal Lobes | Associated with the sense of touch. |
| Temporal Lobes | This is concerned with emotions, and contain the primary auditory cortex, which processes sound. |
| Three Major Brain areas | Brain stem, midbrain, Forebrain |
