Ch 3: Video LaunchPad

spinal cord; hindbrain

Our reflexes such as pulling your hand away from a flame, are governed by the ____, while basic functions of motor skills and respiration are governed by the _____.

loss of muscle control.

Parkinson's Disease is most notably marked

generally more successful in life.

Research suggests that men with higher levels of testosterone seem to be:

uncontrollable, wild movement.

2. At times, the medication that Dale received for Parkinson's disease produced:

hunt and to fight.

Testosterone motivated our early ancestors to:

a measurable drop in testosterone within 15 minutes.

The feeling of dejection that follows defeat is accompanied by:

the frontal lobe

Which part of the cerebral cortex deals with abstract thinking, planning, executive control, and judgment—the qualities that make us most human?

the pituitary gland

Which structure is the conductor, or "master gland," of the hormone-producing system?