Brain Plasticity and Addiction Crossword

how organic living matter can produce feelings, thoughts, and emotions
areas where sensory information from multiple sensory systems is integrated
the assumption that the mind and brain are made up of different kinds of substances
formed when a large number of axons extend inward from the cortex
suggestion that the mind and brain are two levels of description of the same thing
grooves that form during developmental periods at specific locations on the brain's surface
a membrane bilayer that separates and protects the intracellular environment from the extracellular environment
a lobe in the cortext that is located on the other side of the central sulcus
the central part of the cell body that makes up a typical neuron
The cerebral cortex is divided into two distinct _________ which are connected together by a very large, complex bundle of axons
The structural part of a neuron containing the nucleus and other important organelles
If the receptor protein interaction with the neurotransmitter results in excitation of the dendrite, then a _______________ will travel, in the case of a neuron, down the dendrite to the soma.
The specialized terminals that release special chemicals (neurotransmitters) when the electrical pulse reaches the end of the axon
The myelin sheath is interrupted at regularly spaced intervals called _________ which act to regenerate the potential
Shortly after the chemical is released, it activates the neuron or an end organ by interacting with a special protein called a ______.
the specialized region where the axon arises (begins)
the short period of time after the neuron produces an action potential and is unable to generate another action potential
the nerve impulse that is originated from the axon hillock once a certain electochemical threshold is reached
the process byt which the action potential or electrical impulse is carried down the axon
chemical signals within the end terminals