Parts of the Brain
It weighs a little more than 3 pounds, about the size of a small grapefruit, shaped like a walnut, and can fit in the palm of your hand.
What is the brain?
These hold the neurons together and act as filters to keep harmful substances out of the neurons.
Glial Cells
Allows us to recreate the experience of others within ourselves and to understand others’ emotions and empathize.
What is mirror neurons?
Is found in the front of the brain and is called the control center as it deals with planning and thinking.
What is the frontal lobe?
The ability to change the your thoughts and habits.
What is Neuroplasticity?
These receive electrical impulses from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
Trauma to the frontal lobe can cause permanent changes to a person's...
What is behavioral and personality.
These consume oxygen and glucose for fuel.
What are brain cells?
The neurons in this brain make many more connections than those in adults.
What is a child's brain?
This system houses four parts that are important to learning and memory.
Limbic System
Star-shaped glial cells that have a role in regulating the rate of neuron signaling.
What are astrocytes?
Neuron development in children begins in about how many weeks in the embryo?
What is 4 weeks?
Highly organized structure containing more neurons than all the rest of the brain put together.
What is the cerebellum?
These represent about a tenth of the trillion cells in the brain (about 100 billion).
Neurons
Connections the brain finds useful become permanent; those not useful are eliminated in a process called?
What is apoptosis?