psych 335

• responsible for conscious awareness of sensations, the ability to make decisions,and the ability to initiate voluntary movements: In charge of things we control

  cerebral cortex
• collection of brain regions involved in generation emotion and memory formation.

  limbic system
• regulates the autonomic nervous system, hormone production, body temperature, and behaviors such as rage, sleep, eating, drinking, and mating.

  hypothalamus
• responsible for memory consolidation (conversion of short-term to long-term memories) and memory retrieval. 

  hippocampus
• a bundle of axons conveying information from the substantia nigra in the midbrain to the basal ganglia in the cerebrum is called a

  tract
• The gaps between segments of myelin along an axon are called

  nodes of ranvier
• which 2 cell types is neural tissue is composed of ?

  neurons - signaling cells

  • convey information
  • with rare exception do not undergo mitosis

  
  

  glial cells - supporting cells

  • provide proper environment for neurons to function
  • several types undergo mitosis