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What is the function of the Frontal lobe?

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Planning, Problem Solving, Motivation, Decision making

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What is the function of the Temporal lobe?

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Hearing, Memory, Behavior, Understanding language

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What is the function of the Parietal lobe?

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Sensation, Reading, Understanding spacial relationship

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What is the function of the Occipital lobe?

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Vision, color analysis

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What is the function of the Amygdala?

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Fight, Fight, Freeze

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What is the function of the Hippocampus?

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Memories

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What is the function of the Skeletal muscle?

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Helps move the body

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What is the function of Cardiac muscle?

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Pumps heart

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What is the function of Smooth muscle?

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Helps move objects through hollow spaces

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What is a thick myofilament called?

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Myosin

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What is a thin myofilament called?

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Actin

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What is the function of the muscular system?

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Movement, posture, body temperature, protection, circulation

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What is the function of the circulatory system?

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Blood, gas exchange, waste, transportation, immune system

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What is the point of the heart called?

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Apex

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What does the brain stem do?

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Breathing, heart

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What does the cerebellum do?

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Coordination and balance

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What is polarization?

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When the inside of the plasma has a negative charge compared to the outside

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What is depolarization?

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When the ion channels open allowing for sodium to go in and potassium to go out

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What is acetylcholine?

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A neurotransmitter that helps with muscle movement.

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What is dopamine?

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Regulation of serotonin and helps balance your emotions

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What is serotonin?

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Makes someone happy

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Which side of the heart pumps blood to the body?

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Left side

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Which side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs?

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Right side

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What chambers of the heart receive blood from the veins?

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Right and left atrium

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What chambers of the heart are known as the pumping chambers?
Right and left ventricles
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What vessels carry blood to the heart?
Pulmonary veins and vena cava
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What vessels carry blood away from the heart?
Aorta and pulmonary arteries
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What is the valve between the right atrium and the right ventricle?
Tricuspid
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What is the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle?
Bicuspid
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What are the valves between the ventricles and blood vessels?
Semilunar valves
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What is the pacemaker of the heart?
SA node
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What is the backup pacemaker of the heart?
AV nodes
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What is fibrillation?
Irregular heartbeat and where electrical signals fired at the same time
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What is systole?
Contraction
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What is diastole?
Relaxation
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What does the motor neuron do?
Tells the sarcomere to slide together using ATP
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What is the neuromuscular junction?
A gap between neuron and cell
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What is the motor unit?
The nerve and cell
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What is the motor end plate?
Where the cell ends
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What is origin?
The place where bone and muscle are attached but it does not move
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What is insertion?
Where the bone and muscles are attached and does move
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What is the I band?
The light area
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What is the A band?
The dark area
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What is irritability?
Ability to receive and respond to a stimulus
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What is contractility?
Ability to shorten when an adequate stimulus is received
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What is flexion?
Decreases the angle of the joint and brings two bones closer together
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What is extension?
Opposite of flexion
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What is rotation?
Movement of a bone in longitudinal axis, shaking head no
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What is abduction?
Going away
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What is adduction?
Moving towards
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What is circumduction?
Making a circle
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What is a prime mover?
Muscle with the major responsibility for a certain movement
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What is an antagonist?
Muscle that opposes or reverses a prime mover
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What is a synergist?
Muscle that aids a prime mover in a movement and helps prevent rotation
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What is a fixator?
Holds bones in place
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What is the covering of the heart called?
Parietal pericardium
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What do the atra's do?
Receiving chambers
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What do the ventricles do?
Discharging chambers
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What is the P wave?
Impulse across atria
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What is the QRS complex?
Spread of impulse down septum, around ventricles in Purkinje fibers
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What is the T wave?
End of electrical activity in ventricles
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What are dendrites?
Conduct impulses toward the cell body
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What are Axons?
Conduct impulses away from the cell body

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