Chapter #47 Vocabulary

Acetylcholine (Ach)

Excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP)

Occipital lobe

Acetylcholinesterase

Excitatory synapse

Oligodendrocyte

Action potential

Fight or flight reaction

Parasympathetic division

Adrenal medulla

Forebrain

Parietal lobe

All-or-none Law

Frontal lobe

Postganglionic neuron

Amygdala

Ganglion (ganglia)

Preganglionic neuron

Anion

Gray matter

Primary somatosensory cortex

Ascending tracts

Hindbrain

Pyramidal tracts

Association cortex

Hippocampus

Receptor protein

Auditory cortex

Hyperpolarization

Refractory period

Autonomic nervous system

Hypothalamus

REM sleep

Axon

Inhibitory postsynaptic potential (IPSP)

Repolarization

Basal ganglia

Inhibitory synapse

Reticular activating system

Brain

Ion

Salutatory conduction

Broca’s area

Ion channel

Schwann cells

Cation

Limbic system

Slow-wave sleep

Cerebellum

Long term potentiation (LTP)

Somatic nervous system

Cerebral cortex

Membrane potential

Spinal cord

Cerebral hemisphere

Midbrain

Sympathetic division

Cerebrum

Monosynaptic reflex

Synapse

Chemically gated ion channel

Myelin sheath

Synaptic cleft

Corpus callosum

Nerve

Synaptic integration

Dendrite

Nervous system

Synaptic vesicle

Depolarization

Neuroglia

Telencephalon

Descending tracts

Neuromuscular junction

Temporal lobe

Diencephalons dorsal root ganglia

Neuron

Thalamus

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Neurotransmitter

Visual cortex

Epinephrine

Node of Ranvier

Voltage-gated ion channel

Equilibrium potential

Norepinephrine

Wernicke’s area

White matter