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Branches of Neuroscience
Cerebral Imaging
Anatomical Direction and Planes
PNS, CNS, & the Neuron
100
This Port-American neuroscientist determined that the mind, emotion, and consciousness are within in the brain.
Who is Antonio Damasio?
100
Study of diseases in the nervous system, using observations of clinical symptoms and neuroimaging to localize site and type of lesion.
What is neurology?
100
Multiple x-rays generated as a machine rotates to produce 3-D picture of the brain.
What is CT scan (Computerized Tomography)
100
What are the four anatomical directions that describe the front and back?
What is anterior, ventral, posterior, and dorsal?
100
These two body parts make up the central nervous system.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
200
These two physicians identified areas in the brain responsible for comprehension and articulation of speech.
Who is Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke?
200
Specialty area of medicine focused on treatment of neurologic diseases/disorders through use of surgical procedures to the brain.
What is neurosurgery?
200
A non-invasive technique used to analyze connectivity and direction of pathways.
What is diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)?
200
Name the 5 neuroanatomical planes.
What is coronal, sagittal, midsagittal, and parasagittal?
200
Connects CNS with muscles, organs, and glands. Conveys information to and from, between peripheral structures and the central nervous system.
What are functions of the peripheral nervous system?
300
This Italian physician and scientist won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his work titled The Neuron Doctrine.
Who is Camillo Golgi?
300
The study of brain-behavior relationships such as motor movements, sensation, and cognitive processes.
What is neuropsychology?
300
A dynamic measures of metabolic activity in brain regions by injecting radioactive isotopes in the body.
What is positron emission tomography? (PET)
300
Relatively far from the torso.
What is distal?
300
These cells can be stimulated to convey electro-chemical impulses to other cells.
What is a neuron?
400
This French philosopher separated the mind from the body, and connected the brain to movement, sensation and perception.
Who is Rene Descartes?
400
A branch of medicine focused on the interpretation of neuroimaging that results in helping to identify diseases, lesions, and injuries.
What is neuroradiology?
400
Assesses brain tissue densities in slices by using radio waves and a strong magnetic field to detect water molecules in tissues
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
400
These nerves carry information toward the brain.
What is afferent nerves?
400
This structure of the neuron contains cell RNA, which is essential for DNA protein synthesis.
What is nucleolus?
500
This Greek philosopher was the first to recognize epilepsy as a disorder of the brain.
Who is Hippocrates?
500
This branch of neuroscience is the study of disease process in the nervous system.
What is neuropathology?
500
X-ray procedure that images veins and arteries within the brain and brain stem using contrast medium injected into a major artery.
What is cerebral angiography?
500
The elbow is ? to the wrist.
What is proximal?
500
The site where terminal boutons from the axon of one cell meets the dendrites from another cell.
What is the synaptic cleft?
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