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| Enables, muscle action, learning, and memory. Alzheimer's causes deterioration. |
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| Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion. Excess linked to schizopherenia. Undersupply linked to Parkinson's. |
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| Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal. Undersupply linked to depression. |
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| Helps control alertness and arousal. Undersupply can depress mood. |
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| A major excitatory neurotransmitter, involed in memory. Oversupply can produce migraines or seizures. |
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| GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) |
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| A major inhibitory neurotransmitter. Undersupply linked to seizures, tremors, and insomnia. |
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| CT (computed tomography) scan |
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| Examines the brain by taking X-ray photographs that can reveal brain damage. |
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| PET (positron emission tomography) scan |
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| Depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of its chemical fuel, the sugar glucose. Can locate brain activity "hot spots". |
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| MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) |
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| Uses magnets to provide a detailed picture of the brain's soft tissues. |
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| Responsible for automatic survival functions. |
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| The base of the brainstem, controls heartbeat and breathing. |
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| Nerve network in the brainstem that plays an important role in controlling arousal. |
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| Sensory switchboard, transmits messages throughout the brain. |
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| The "little brain", processes sensory input and coordinating movements output and balance. |
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| Associated with emotions and drives. |
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| Directs body maintenance, helps govern endocrine system, linked to emotion and reward. |
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| Involved in speaking, muscle movements, judgement. |
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| Receives sensory input for touch and body position. |
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| Receives information from the visual fields. |
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| Impairment of language usually caused by Left Hemisphere damage. |
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| Directs muscle movement involved in speech. |
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| Controls language perception, usually in left temporal lobe. |
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| Ultimate control and information-processing center. |
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