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Reticular formation
________- a nerve network that travels through the brainstem and thalamus and plays an important role in controlling arousal.
Evolution
________ shows that men are more attracted to healthy, fertile- appearing women.
Agonists
________ cause a person to get high and have pleasure because they are similar to neurotransmitters.
Consciousness
________ allows us to have voluntary control and communicate with others.
Scientists today
________ can now predict what the motor cortex will do before a patient even moves.
Neurogenesis
What is the process of forming new brain cells? Answer with a single words or term.
Evolutionary psychologists
________ look to natural selection to determine why men have more of an interest in sex than women.
Glial cells
________ provide nutrients and clean up after ions.
Cerebellum
________- the "little brain "at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input, coordination movement output and balance, and enabling nonverbal learning and memory.
Genomes
________- the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism's chromosomes.
Mutation
________- a random error in gene replication that leads to a change.
Deaf people
________ use the left part of their brain to understand sign language.
right hemisphere
The ________ makes inferences, modifies our speech so that it is clear, and helps orchestrate self sense.
Interneurons
________- neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally and intervene between the sensory inputs and motor outputs.
Plasticity
________- the brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage of by building new pathways based on experience.
Endorphins
________-"morphine within- "natural, opiate- like neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure.
Antagonist
________- a molecule that, by binding to a receptor site, inhibits or blocks a response.
CT
________ (computed tomography) scan- a series of X- ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by computer into a composite representation of a slice of the brain's structure (Also called a CAT scan)
Synapse
________- the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron.
Myelin sheath
________- a fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neutrons; enables vastly greater transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one sausage- like node to the next.
Epigenetics
________- the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change.
Motor neurons
________ carry instructions from the CNS to muscles and glands.
Humans
________ pair off monogamously and get married because there is a higher chance of getting the woman pregnant and the man sticking around.
Natural selection
________- the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.
Scientists
________ use an electroencephalogram (EEG) to capture the electrical activity of the brain.