Posture, coordination, muscle tone, and memory of skills and habits
(20 min) periodic appearance of sleep spindles
Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion
Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal
Helps control alertness and arousal
A region of the forebrain below the thalamus that coordinates both the autonomic nervous system and the activity of the pituitary, controlling body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other homeostatic systems, and involved in sleep and emotional activity
An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain’s surface; these waves are measured by electrodes placed on the scan
A major inhibitory neurotransmitter
Enables muscle action, learning, and memory
Sense of smell, motor control, and higher mental abilities such as reasoning and planning
A technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer-generated images of soft tissue which shows brain anatomy
A visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task
(35 min) delta waves cont. difficult to wake up, sleepwalking and bedwetting