Nerves outside the brain and spinal cord

• Autonomic
• Central Nervous System
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Somatic

In a neuron, this conducts messages away from the cell body

• Axon
• Cell Body
• Dendrites
• Mitochondria

Why is Phineas Gage's injury important to neuroscience today?

• Doctors compare Gage's brain scan to injured patients today
• It forced 19th century doctors to start doing autopsies
• No other case of that type of brain injury has ever been seen
• It was the earliest recorded case of brain damage affecting personality

The right and left cerebral hemispheres are connected by the:

• brain stem
• corpus callosum
• diencephalon
• pia mater

The lobe at the back of the head that controls vision:

• Frontal
• Parietal
• Occipital
• Temporal

Controls heartbeat and breathing

• Pons
• Medulla
• Cerebellum
• Thalamus

Receives sensory information and relays it to the proper part of brain for further processing

• Hypothalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Cerebellum
• Thalamus

Known as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movements

• Thalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus
• Cerebellum

Processes emotions of fear and anger

• Amygdala
• Hypothalamus
• Hippocampus
• Medulla

Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information

• Forebrain
• Cerebral Cortex
• Corpus Callosum
• Cerebellum