Exam 2: The Biological Perspective

The brain and spinal cord are two components of the__________.

Involuntary muscles are controlled by the ________ nervous system.

Which endocrine gland controls all of the other endocrine glands?

The endocrine system is made up of:

A young woman recovering from a blow to her head finds she has great difficulty maintaining her balance and coordinating her movements.Injury to which part of her brain is likely to be causing her difficulties?

Signals from the neurons of which sense are NOT sent to the cortex by the thalamus?

Endorphins

The autonomic nervous system has two divisions called the __________ and the ____________.

The section of the brain responsible for interpreting the visual information in the primary visual cortex is called the __________.

Stem cells are special cells capable of creating other cells,such as blood cells,nerve cells,and brain cells.

A young woman returns from a day at the beach to find she has developed a severe sunburn.Which neurons are sending the messages from her burned skin to her brain informing her of the pain from the burn?

Which neurotransmitter is associated with the control of the pain response?

The cortex is divided into two sections referred to as____________.

Specialized cells in the brain which send and receive information are called:

The branch of the autonomic nervous system that prepares the body for quick action in an emergency is the __________ division.

The ________,located on the top of the kidneys,secrete(s)hormones that regulate salt intake,control stress reactions,and provide a secondary source of sex hormones affecting the sexual changes that occur during adolescence.

The branchlike structures that receive messages from other neurons are called __________.

During the action potential,the electrical charge inside the neuron is __________ the electrical charge outside the neuron.

The outer surface of the two cerebral hemispheres that regulate most complex behavior is called the __________.

Researcher Roger Sperry won a Nobel prize for his research on epilepsy.Sperry cut through the ________,which joins the two hemispheres of the brain.