Brain Teasers
Famous Brains
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What is This?
You're Nothing But a Pack of Neurons...and Glia
100
What flies without wings?
What is time?
100
This former Patriot was diagnosed with one of the most extreme cases of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy)
Who is Aaron Hernandez?
100
At what age is the brain fully formed?
25 years old
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Neuron
100
Unipolar and multipolar are examples of classifying neurons this way
by the number of neuritis/poles
200
The more it dries, the wetter it gets?
What is a towel?
200
This legendary boxer died from dementia pugilistica, a form of CTE. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Who is Muhammed Ali?
200
True or False: we only use 10% of our brain
False
200
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the spinal cord
200
Golgi Type I is an example of classifying neurons this way
length of the axon
300
This is light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What is it?
What is your breath?
300
This film follows the real life story of a Columbia professor and how her family deals with her diagnosis of familial Alzheimer's disease at 50.
What is Still Alice?
300
At what age does our spinal cord stop growing?
4 years old
300
What's the branching structure (bottom right)
cerebellum
300
Tonic and chattering are examples of classifying neurons this way
electrophysiological properties
400
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
What is day and night?
400
This woman was lobotomized when she was 23 (in 1941) and was unable to speak intelligibly. Conspiracists think this could be related to her family's "curse..."
Who is Rosemary Kennedy? (Or JFK's sister)
400
True or False: the brain is incapable of forming new memories when we're drunk.
True
400
hypothalamus
400
cell type that myelinated CNS axons
oligodendroglia
500
What five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
What is "short"?
500
This athlete was one of the first former NFL players to be diagnosed with CTE
Who is Mike Webster?
500
How fast does information travel in the brain from neuron to neuron?
268 mph
500
What are the dark, almost black, structures in the middle?
ventricles
500
this substance increases the speed of conduction of the action potential
myelin