Neuroscience and Behaviour

Across

• 1. a subcortical structure that regulates body temperature, hunger, thirst and sexual behaviour (12)
• 4. simple pathways in the nervous system that rapidly generate muscle contractions (6, 8)
• 5. a part of the midbrain that is involved in movement and arousal (9)
• 8. the part of a neurone that transmits information to other neurone, muscles or glands (4)
• 9. the time following an action potential during which a new action potential cannot be initiated (10, 6)
• 10. cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform information processing tasks (7)