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| INDIVIDUAL CELLS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT RECIEVE, INTERGRATE, AND TRANSMIT INFORMATION |
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| CONTAINS THE CELL NUCLEUS AND MUCH OF THE CHEMICAL MACHINERY COMMON TO MOST CELLS |
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| PARTS OF A NEURON THAT ARE SPECIALIZED TO RECIEVE INFORMATION |
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| A LONG THIN FIBER THAT TRANSMITS SIGNALS AWAY FROM THE SOMA TO OTHER NEURONS OR TO MUSCLES OR GLANDS |
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| INSULATING MATERIAL THAT ENCASES SOME AXONS |
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| SMALL KNOBS AT THE END OF THE AXON WHICH SECRETE CHEMICALS CALLED NEUROTRANSMITTERS |
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| A JUNCTION WHERE INFORMATION IS TRANSMITTED FROM ONE NEURON TO ANOTHER |
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| CELLS FOUND THROUGHOUT THE NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT PROVIDE VARIOUS TYPES OF SUPPORT FOR NEURONS |
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| NEURONS STABLE, NEGATIVE CHARGE WHEN THE CELL IS INACTIVE |
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| BRIEF SHIFT IN A NEURONS ELECTRICAL CHARGE THAT TRAVELS ALONG AN AXON |
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| ABSOLUTE REFRACTORY PERIOD |
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| THE MINIMUM LENGTH OF TIME AFTER AN ACTION POTENTIAL DURING WHICH ANOTHER ACTION POTENTIAL CANNOT BEGIN |
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| A MICROSCOPIC GAP BETWEEN THE TERMIAL BUTTON OF ONE NEURON AND THE CELL MEMBRANE OF ANOTHER NEURON |
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| NEURON THAT SENDS A SIGNAL ACROSS THE GAP |
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| THE NEURON THAT RECIEVES THE SIGNAL |
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| CHEMICALS THAT TRANSMIT INFORMATION FROM ONE NEURON TO ANOTHER |
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| POSTSNAPTIC POTENTIAL (PSP) |
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| A VOLTAGE CHANGE AT A RECEPTOR SITE ON A POSTSYNAPTIC CELL MEMBRANE |
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| A POSITIVE VOLTAGE SHIFT THAT INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE POSTSYNAPTIC NEURON WILL FIRE ACTION POTENTIALS |
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| A NEGATIVE VOLTAGE SHIFT THAT DECREASES THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE POSTSYNAPTIC NEURON WILL FIRE ACTION POTENTIALS |
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| A PROCESS IN WHICH NEUROTRANSMITTERS ARE SPONGED UP FROM THE SYNAPTIC CLEFT BY THE PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE |
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| A CHEMICAL THAT MIMICS THE ACTION OF A NEUROTRANSMITTER |
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| IS A CHEMICAL THAT OPPOSES THE ACTION OF A NEUROTRANSMITTER |
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| MONOAMINES INCLUDE HOW MANY NEUROTRANSMITTERS? |
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| DOPAMINE, NOREPINEPHRINE, AND SEROTONIN |
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| INTERNALLY PRODUCED CHEMICALS THAT RESEMBLE OPIATES IN STRUCTURE AND EFFECTS |
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| PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: MADE UP OF |
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| ALL THOSE NERVES THAT LIE OUTSIDE THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD |
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| BUNDLES OF NEURON FIBERS (AXONS) THAT ARE ROUTED TOGETHER IN THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM |
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| MADE UP OF NERVES THAT CONNECT TO VOLUNTARY SKELETAL MUSCLES AND TO SENSORY RECEPTORS |
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| AXONS THAT CARRY INFORMATION INWARD TO THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FROM THE PERIPHERY OF THE BODY |
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| AUTOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (ANS) |
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| IS MADE UP OF NERVES THAT CONNECT TO THE HEART, BLOOD VESSELS, SMOOTH MUSCLES, AND GLANDS |
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| BRANCH OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT MOBILIZES THE BODY'S RESOURCES FOR EMERGENCIES |
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| BRANCH OF THE AUTOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT GENERALLY CONSERVES BODILY RESOURCES |
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| CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) |
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| CONSISTS OF THE BRAIN AND THE SPINAL CORD |
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| CT (COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY) SCAN |
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| A COMPUTER ENHANCES X RAY OF BRAIN STRUCTURE |
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| MRI(MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING |
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| USES MAGNETIC FIELDS, RADIO WAVES, AND COMPUTERIZED ENHANCEMENT TO MAP OUT THE BRAIN STRUCTURE |
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| PET (POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY) SCANS |
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| USE RADIOACTIVE MARKERS TO MAP CHEMICAL ACTIVITY IN THE BRAIN OVER TIME |
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| TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (TMS) |
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| A TECHNIQUE THAT PERMITS SCIENTISTS TO TEMPORARILY ENHANCE OR DEPRESS ACTIVITY IN A SPECIFIC AREA OF THE BRAIN |
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| INCLUDES THE CEREBELLUM AND TWO STRUCTURES FOUND IN THE LOWER PART OF THE BRAIN STEM: MEDULLA AND PONS |
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| LARGE AND DEEPLY FOLDED STRUCTURE LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE BACK SURFACE OF THE BRAINSTEM |
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| SEGMENT OF THE BRAINSTEM THAT LIES BETWEEN THE HINDBRAIN AND THE FOREBRAIN |
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| NEURONS THAT ARE ACTIVATED BY PERFORMING AN ACTION OR BY SEEING ANOTHER MONKEY OR PERSON PERFORM THE SAME ACTION |
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| BUNDLE OF FIBERS THAT CONNECTS THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES IS CUT TO REDUCE THE SEVERITY OF EPILEPTIC SEIZURES |
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