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What is your nervous system?
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Pathway by which information is taken from your environment and processed
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Behavioral neuroscientists
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Psychologists who specialize in studying the ways that biological structures and functions of the body affect behavior
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What are messages taken in from your environment? i.e., what you see, hear, taste, etc.
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Neurons
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Neurons, aka
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Nerve cells, are the basic elements of the nervous system
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What does the nucleus do?
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Nucleus carries the hereditary material that determines how a cell will function
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What does the glial cells do?
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Provide nourishment to neurons, and repair them when damage occurs
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What makes neurons so unique?
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They can communicate with other cells and transmit information across relatively long distances
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Clusters of fibers at one end of the neuron
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Dendrites
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What is the dendrites job?
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Recieve messages from the neurons
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What is the axon?
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Carries messages recieved by the dendrites to the other neurons; longer than the rest of the neuron
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Terminal buttons
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Send messages to the other neurons
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