The Systems
Brain Parts
Neurons/Neurotransmitters
I Like Your Waves
Wild Card
100
The system that arouses and expands energy and will accelerate your heartbeat, slow your digestion, raise your blood sugar, and cool you with perspiration if something alarms or challenges you.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
100
The brain's oldest and innermost region
What is the brainstem?
100
A neuron's bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
What is a dendrite?
100
Computer enhanced x-rays used to create brain images
What are computed tomography (CT) scans?
100
Portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements
What are the frontal lobes?
200
It is responsible for gathering information and transmitting CNS decisions to other body parts
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
200
The pair of egg shaped structures that act as the brain's sensory control center (sometimes referred to as the "train hub" of the brain)
What is the thalamus?
200
A neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
What is action potential?
200
Technique for revealing bloodflow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI Scans. (Shows a brain's function as well as its structure)
What is an fMRI (Functional MRI)?
200
Portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head; includes areas that receive info from visual fields
What are the occipital lobes?
300

__________nerve fibers are axons that carry information inward to the central nervous system from the periphery of the body, and _____________nerve fibers are axons that carry information outward from the central nervous system to the periphery of the body

What is afferent and efferent?

300

Also known as the little brain, this structure of the brain is critical to the coordination of movement and the sense of equilibrium, or physical balance. 

What is the Cerebellum?

300
The period of inactivity after a neuron has been fired
What is the refractory period?
300
An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity sweeping across the brain's surface. (These waves are measured by electrodes placed on the scalp)
What is an electroencephalogram (EEG)
300

A person has profound difficulty in producing spoken language. If the problem is attributed to brain damage, the damage would probably be found in this portion of the left hemisphere

What is Broca's area?

400
Enables voluntary control of our skeletal muscles.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
400

The cerebral hemisphere is divided into these four lobes

What Frontal, temporal, occipital, and Parietal?

400
When there is a negative charge inside an axon and a positive charge outside
When is the Neuron said to have a resting potential?
400
Uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer generated images of soft tissue (Shows brain anatomy)
What is an MRI?
400
Large band of Neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain and carrying messages between them
What is the Corpus Callosum?
500
The most influential endocrine gland which is under the influence of the hypothalamus.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
500
Part 1) Primary function is processing memories Part 2) Directs several maintenance activities such as eating, drinking, and body temperature, and is linked to emotion and reward
Part 1) What is the Hippocampus? Part 2) What is the Hypothalamus?
500

Part 1) Inhibits CNS Activity in order to calm a person down during stressful situations, regulates anxiety, sleep, and arousal Part 2) Enables muscle action, learning, and memory

Part 1) What is GABA? Part 2) What is Acetylcholine (ACh)?

500
Measures glucose consumption as an indicator of brain activity
What is a PET Scan?
500
A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain's 2 hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them
What is Split Brain?
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