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1. cerebral cortex areas involved primarily in higher mental functions, such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking

2. the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

3. a condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain's two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them

4.
magnetic resonance imaging

5.
included in the limbic system

6. 'morphine within'--natural, opiatelike neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure.

7. Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active.

8. the scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes

9. pushing a neuron's accelerator

10. peripheral nervous system

11.
cerebral cortex area at the rear of the frontal lobes; controls voluntary movements

12.
Largest part of a typical neuron; contains the nucleus and much of the cytoplasm

13. our awareness of ourselves and our environment

14. Chemicals messengers that transmit information from one neuron to another

15.
glial cells provide ____ and ___ for nuerons?

16. FMRI shows

17.
a pair of endocrine glands that sit just above the kidneys and secrete hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine) that help arouse the body in times of stress.

18. according to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream

19. a neuron's reaction of either firing or not firing

20. false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

21.
A device that uses electrodes placed on the scalp to record waves of electrical activity sweeping across the brain's surface.

22. a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm. Example: In response to light, the SCN adjust melatonin production, thus modifying our feelings of sleepiness.

23.
A neural structure lying below the thalamus; it directs several maintenance activities (eating, drinking, body temperature), helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland, and is linked to emotion and reward.

24. a sleep disorder in which a sleeping person repeatedly stops breating until blood oxygen is so low the person awakens just long enough to draw breath.

25. the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle (for example wakefulness)

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