- A secondary effect that melatonin has on the human body is to inhibit the production of __________.
- What technique assigns a color to brain activity and allows scientists to watch how neurons interact?
- Melatonin is responsible for maintaining the _________, which is also called the sleep-wake cycle.
- The central and inferior nuclei of the reticular formation are found in the _____.
- Phineas Gage is famous not just for surviving such a wild injury, but also because his trauma to the frontal lobes was the first connection between _____ and _____.
- What is a tool that reads electrical activity in the brain with electrodes that are placed on the subject's scalp?
- What is the term for the study of the relationship between the regions of the brain, and the tasks they perform?
- Which part of the embryonic brain will later mature into structures most critical to your heart rate?
- Blood flows through a closed circulatory system. Where in the system does the exchange of gases and nutrients occur?
- The pineal gland is sometimes called the _______ because of its reaction to the presence of light.
- Which part of the brain regulates many vital autonomic functions including heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, swallowing, and digestion?
- The pineal gland releases _________ melatonin when light is detected and _________ melatonin when little to no light is detected.
- Arteries in the circulatory system are the blood vessels experiencing the highest pressure. How are the arteries adapted to experience such high pressures?
- What is the maintenance of a stable internal environment within an organism commonly called?
- An electric impulse involving a change in voltage across a plasma membrane is best known as a(n) _____.
- _____ sends signals from the body to the central nervous system, and the _____ sends signals from the central nervous system back to the body.
- In addition to muscles, tendons and joints, what else contains sensory receptors that use internal stimuli to detect movement?
- When the dendrite is in its resting state (i.e. the inside of the cell has a net negative charge and the outside of the cell has a net positive charge), its membrane is _____.
- Which of the following would NOT be a reason why the shape of astrocytes would increase their functionality?
- _____ are afferent nerve endings that sense stimuli outside the body and _____ are subgroups of these receptors that respond to mechanical stimuli such as touch, pressure and vibration.