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Brain

That part of the central nervous system inside our heads that controls all our perceptions, thoughts, feelings and voluntary movements.

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Brain

glutamate

Anatomy; Brain

A neurotransmitter that plays a central role in creating learning and memory pathways between brain cells.

nerve fiber

Anatomy; Brain

Collections of many axons growing along side each other on their way to other parts of the body or brain.

conditioning

Anatomy; Brain

A learned response to a stimulus that always precedes an event, as if the stimulus were the event itself.

intuition

Anatomy; Brain

What you feel when you feel that something is right or wrong, even though you're not sure why or how.

cortex

Anatomy; Brain

The wrinkled layers of cells covering the surface of the brain, sometimes called gray matter.

pia

Anatomy; Brain

The innermost layer of the meninges. It is adjacent to the surface of the brain and the arachnoid.

corpus callosum

Anatomy; Brain

A white-matter bundle of 200-300 million nerve fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres.

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