Brain Cells
The number of neurons in the average human brain
What is 86 billion?
The structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain
What is the corpus callosum?
MRI stands for:
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
The equation representing Ohm's Law
What is V = IR or Voltage = Current * Resistance?
The location where the first two human magnetic resonance imaging scanners are being displayed
What is the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
The two cells that repair the myelin sheath (100 per cell)
Oligodendrocytes (CNS) and Schwann Cells (PNS)
The lobe responsible for vision
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The signal source of EEGs
What are electrical potentials from the cerebral cortex?
The most commonly used units for EEG
What are microvolts (mV)?
The first comprehensive map of the human motor brain
What is the motor homunculus?
The gaps in the segments of myelin along the axon
What are the Nodes of Ranvier?
What are the pons, the cerebellum, and the medulla oblongata?
The three planes of the brain
What are the Coronal/Frontal, Sagittal, and Horizontal planes?
Full names of ECG, EOG, EMG, and EEG
What are:
Electrocardiography
Electrooculography
Electromyography
Electroencephalography
The first university in the U.S. to establish an undergraduate Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Neural Engineering
What is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
The cells that migrate to create the neurons and glia of the CNS, EXCEPT microglia
What are Neuroepithelial Cells (NEC)?
The region of the brain that most likely sustained damage if you can't move your right arm
What is the left primary motor cortex?
The sites referring to an electrode placed on the midline sagittal plane of the skull
What are Z-sites ("zero", Cz, 0z, etc)
The process of eliminating unwanted fluctuations in signals
What is denoising?
The man who pioneered the EEG and recorded the first instance of human brain waves
Who is Hans Berger?
The 5 steps of a neuron's action potential generation
What are:
1. Stimulus
2. Depolarization
3. Action potential
4. Repolarization
5. Refractory Period/Resting State
The two aggregates that are responsible for the progression of Alzheimer's
What are amyloid-β plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles?
The best imaging system for an emergency head trauma case
What is a CT scan?
The average voltage of a cell's resting membrane potential
What is -70mV?
The animal that helped Galvani prove that electrical impulses drive nervous system activity
What is a frog?