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Brain Parts & Chemical Signals
Corpus Collosum and Dopamine, etc
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/13/2006

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Dopamine
Definition
Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion
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Serotonin
Definition
Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal
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Norepinephrine
Definition
Helps control alertness and arousal
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Endorphins
Definition
Natural morphines which are released in response to pain and vigorous exercise.
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Acetylcholine
Definition
Enables muscle action, learning and memory
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Medulla
Definition
Heartrate and breathing, place where nerves cross to opposite
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Reticular Formation
Definition
Arousal, connection to sensory input
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thalamus
Definition
routes sensory input, except smell
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cerebellum
Definition
voluntary movement and nonverbal learning
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Limbic System
Definition
processes memory and emotion
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amygdala
Definition
influences aggression and fear
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hypothalamus
Definition
hunger, thirst, sex, temperature, pleasure
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hippocampus
Definition
part of the limbic system for memory
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Frontal Lobe
Definition
just behind the forehead; speaking and muscle movement, planning and judging
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Parietal Lobe
Definition
top rear; sensory stuff
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Parietal Lobe
Definition
top rear; sensory stuff
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occipetal lobe
Definition
back of head; visual reception areas
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Thyroid
Definition
Produces hormones that regulate metabolism
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Myelin sheath
Definition
Little things on axons speeding up the action potential and increasing the resistance on the electricity involved
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temporal lobe
Definition
sides of the brain near the ears; contains the amgdali and hippocampi; includes auditory areas
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