Areas of the Brain
This area of the brain contains the vomiting center.
What is the medulla oblongata?
Sleep is initiated by a rise in secretion of what substance?
What is melatonin?
This is the number of layers of protection for the brain.
What is four?
This layer is the innermost layer of the meningies.
What is the pia mater?
Cramming for exams is an example of this type of memory.
What is short term memory?
This area of the brain looks like a "living tree".
What is the cerebellum?
These are the two types of sleep.
What is REM and NREM sleep?
This is considered the first and outermost layer of protection.
What is the skull?
This is the name for the space between arachnoid layer and pia mater.
What is the subarachnoid space?
When you are able to recite your childhood phone number, is an example of this type of memory.
What is long-term memory?
This system of the brain is called the "emotional brain".
What is the Limbic system?
This is the number of stages during NREM sleep.
What is four?
These are three layers of connective tissue surround brain and spinal cord.
What are the meninges?
This fluid helps to protect the brain.
What is the cerebral spinal fluid?
This clear fluid looks like clear soda and similar in composition to plasma.
What is CSF?
This area of the brain has a primary sensory function to alert cerebral cortex of incoming sensory information.
What is the reticular formation?
This is the most obvious characteristic of REM sleep.
What is rapid eye movement?
Beneath dura mater is a small space called this.
What is the subdural space?
This layer of the brain is a barrier to movement of harmful chemicals into CNS.
What is the blood-brain barrier?
This substance crosses blood–brain barrier and affects brain tissue.
What is alcohol?
This "brain" takes in a lot of information, sorts it and assigns it meanings for teh day.
What is the sleeping brain?
This type of sleep is when dream most occur.
What is REM sleep?
This is the middle layer of the meninges.
What is the arachnoid mater?
CSF formed within these areas of brain by structure.
What are the ventricles of the brain?
This disorder occurs when the flow of CSF occurs before sutures in skull fuse.
What is hydrocephalus?