Lobe it or leave it
The largest structure of the brain, divided into two hemispheres, each with four lobes. Responsible for our conscious thought.
What is the cerebral cortex?
The brain is made up of 100 billion of these.
What are neurons?
A tennis-ball sized structure at the base of the brain, which is important for controlling movement.
What is the cerebellum?
The term for a scientist who studies the brain and the nervous system.
What is a neuroscientist?
This part of the brain that controls important cognitive skills, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, and judgment. It is the “control panel” of our personality and our ability to communicate.
What is the frontal lobe?
The part of the neuron that sends a signal to another cell.
What is an axon?
The primary functions of this structure include relaying information between the brain and the body; supplying some of the cranial nerves to the face and head; and performing critical functions in controlling the heart, breathing and consciousness.
What is the brainstem.
This technology records brain electrical activity with electrodes placed at the scalp.
What is an EEG? Electroencephalography
Plaques and tangles damage healthy brain cells which leads cellular death, and the brain shrinks. These changes cause symptoms such as memory loss, speech problems, confusion, and mood swings.
What is Alzheimer's disease.
The main function of this lobe is to process the visual stimuli and information received from the eyes.
What is the occipital lobe?
This neurotransmitter influences learning and reinforces our feelings of pleasure
What is dopamine?
This structure, located at the base of the brainstem, is important for controlling breathing and heart rate.
What is the medulla?
This device uses a magnetic field to make pictures of the brain.
What is an MRI? Magnetic Resonance Imaging
A psychological event outside the range of usual human experience can produce profound if not enduring alterations in brain function, behavior, emotional regulation, and cognition in this disorder
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
The formation of visual memories, including long-term memories ours in this lobe
What is the temporal lobe?
This is the space between two neurons
What is the synaptic cleft?
This plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
This device, uses multiple X-Rays to make pictures of the brain, similar to a movie reel
What is a CAT scan? Computerized Axil Tomography
A person suffering from narcolepsy might do this too much.
What is sleep?
This lobe plays important roles in integrating sensory information from various parts of the body, knowledge of numbers and their relations, and in the manipulation of objects. It also functions in processing information relating to the sense of touch.
What is the parietal lobe?
The burst of electrical activity that travels down a neuron and allows two neurons to communicate
What is an action potential?
This structure relays sensory and motor signals to the cortex and is involved in regulating consciousness, sleep and alertness
What is the thalamus?
This technology studies brain activity indirectly, by recording muscle signals with electrodes.
What is an EMG? Electromyography
Abnormal electrical activity in the brain is a character of this disease
What is epilepsy.