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| Basic biological needs: hunger, thirst, temperature control |
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| Learning of fear responses |
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| Complex mental activities: sensing, thinking, learning, planning |
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| Distributes incoming sensory signals |
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| Coordinates fine muscle movements, balance |
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| Regulates unconscious functions: heart rate, circulation |
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| Limbic system: learning and memory |
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| The development of new neurons and synapses. |
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| Individual cells in the nervous system that receive, integrate, and transmit information and allow them to communicate with other neurons. |
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| Cell body of the neuron; handles information. |
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| Parts of neuron that receive information from other cells; branch off of soma and each other. |
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| Long fibre that transmits signals away from some to other neurons, muscles or glands. |
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| What is the myelin sheath? |
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| Wraps around axon; fatty glial cells which helps to speed up transmission of signals. |
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| Junctions where information is transmitted from one neuron to another. |
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