Axon : Passes electrical messages away from the cell body to other neurons, glands, or muscles

Myelin Sheath : Covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impluses

Terminal Buttons : Form junctions/bonds with other cells to release neurotransmitters

Action Potential : Electrical signal traveling down the axon

Cell Body : The cell's life-support center and directs all the cellular processes

Terminal Buttons : Form junctions with other cells to release neurotransmitters

Dendrites : Recieves electrical messages from other nerve cells (neurons)

Myelin Sheath : Covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impluses

Myelin Sheath : Covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impluses

Dendrites : Recieves electrical messages from other nerve cells (neurons)

Terminal Buttons : Form junctions with other cells to release neurotransmitters

Cell Body : The cell's life-support center and directs all the cellular processes

Action Potential : Electrical signal traveling down the axon

Myelin Sheath : Covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impluses

Cell Body : The cell's life-support center and directs all the cellular processes

Axon : Passes electrical messages away from the cell body to other neurons, glands, or muscles

Action Potential : Electrical signal traveling down the axon

Terminal Buttons : Form junctions with other cells to release neurotransmitters

Axon : Passes electrical messages away from the cell body to other neurons, glands, or muscles

Dendrites : Recieves electrical messages from other nerve cells (neurons)

Store genetic information in neurons.

Chemical messengers that communicate with other nerve cells, muscles, or glands

Regulate blood flow in the brain.

Provide structural support to neurons.

Store genetic information in neurons.

Functional junction point where a neuron communicates with another neuron

Protect neurons from damage.

Provide energy to the neuron.

Controls visual processing in the brain within the brainstem

Involved in sleep, arousal, and facial recognition within the brainstem

Responsible for regulating body temperature within the brainstem

Primarily manages digestive functions within the brainstem

Responsible for vision processing & consuming food

Controls emotional responses & behaviors to various stimuli

Involved in the control of heart rate, blood pressure, & breathing (autonamic functions)

Regulates muscle movement & motor coordination in the body

Processes visual information & sends to the other parts of the brain

Controls heart rate & blood pressure

Regulates arousal & the ability to focus attention.

Regulates digestive functions with eating foods.

Coordinates voluntary muscle movements & balance/coordination

Processing emotional responses, especially fear and aggression

Receives all sensory information (vision, touch, taste, hearing) & sends them to areas of forebrain

Regulating hunger, thirst, body temperature, and the production of hormones

Controlling the body's balance and coordinating voluntary movements

Regulating hunger, body temperature, sexual arousal & production of hormones

Controls voluntary muscle movements and coordination

Primary center for processing sensory information, like touch and pain.

Responsible for higher-level cognitive functions, including learning & memory.

Functions our basic emotions (ex: fear) and regulates responses

Functions in forming new memories and learning.

Produces red blood cells.

Responsible for digestion.

Controls muscle movement.

Regulates growth hormones, metabolism, and reproductive functions.

Controls appetite by regulating hormones.

Produces adrenaline during stress.

Regulates sleep by producing melatonin and influences sex hormones.

Responsible for memory storage.

Top wrinkly layer of the brain that has fissures to increase surface area of our brain & divides into four lobes

Refers to the brain's ability to control emotions.

Control the same side of the body.

Process of balancing brain activity between hemispheres.

Principle that the left hemisphere controls the right side of body and vice versa.

Attaches the left and right hemispheres of the cerebal cortex.

Controls muscle movement.

Processes visual information.

Regulates heart rate and blood pressure.

Areas of the brain not dealing with our senses or muscle movements

Involved in planning, maintaining emotions, moral reasoning, and controlling voluntary movements.

Language disorder that causes the inability to verbally communicate.

Excessive speech production without meaning.

Visual impairment that causes perception to be altered to others.

Hearing disorder affecting the ways words are interpredted in the brain.

Contains the somato-sensory cortex (touch, temperature, pain, pressures) at the top of our head

Processes visual input from our eyes, where the righ half of each retina goes to left occipital lobe & vice verse

Controls motor functions.

Responsible for auditory processing.

Regulates emotions within the nerve cells.

Processes sound sensed by ears and involves language comprehension.

Speech disorder with no impact on comprehension.

Difficulty in writing but not speaking.

Damage to the frontal lobe, not the temporal lobe.

Language disorder that makes it difficult to interpret speech .

A system that is responsible for digestion and nutrient absorption.

A system of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream.

A network of neurons that transmit signals throughout the body.

A type of muscle tissue that controls movement.

Responsible for digestion.

Produces red blood cells.

Produces epinephrine-engery boost (adreline)

Filters toxins from the blood.

Hindbrain, Midbrain, Forebrain

Bones, Osteocytes, skin, fat

Neurons, glial cells, connective tissues, cerebrospinal fluid

Nephrons, lipids, carbohydrates, hormones

Air, water, minerals, Alveoli