Brain Basics
There are 100 billion of these in the brain.
How many neurons are in the brain?
The brain and the spinal cord.
What makes up the Central Nervous System?
We only use 10% of our brain.
What is a popular myth spread by Hollywood?
The most common mental health condition.
What is anxiety?
The Egyptians had plenty of these.
What are mummies?
Structure that supports memory, learning, navigation, and space perception.
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the brain is named after its resemblance to seahorses.
What is the hippocampus?
Medication, therapy, and lifestyle changes.
What are ways to cope with anxiety?
This blue-furred and one-eyed monster duo are employed at a scream processing factory in this movie.
This type of matter is primarily composed of neuron somas.
What is grey matter?
The cranial nerve responsible for sense of smell and cranial nerve responsible for eyesight.
What are the olfactory nerves and the optic nerves?
This hormone is commonly associated with love.
What is oxytocin?
Hyperventilation, increased heart rate, avoidance behaviors, and trouble sleeping.
What are physical symptoms of anxiety?
The country where Halloween originated.
What is Ireland?
60% of the brain is made of this:____
Responsible for tear production, blinking, balance, chewing, etc.
What is the Pons responsible for?
This part of the brain keeps us from being able to tickle ourselves.
What is the cerebellum?
People with anxiety disorders may have heightened disorders in this system.
What is the limbic system?
Pitch-black metal from down under, AC/DC drove this song to No. 47 on the Top 100 in 1979.
What is the Highway to Hell?
Loop of blood vessels near the bottom of the brain connecting major arteries, circulating blood from front to back of brain.
What is the circle of Willis?
Anomia is the technical term for this common oral-related phenomenon, which often causes frustration in daily conversations.
What is tip-of-the-tongue syndrome?
This limbic structure perpetuates the fear response, causing the longer-term, general unease type of anxiety.
What is the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST)?
Why the long face? This movie focuses on a hooded psychopathic killer wielding a butcher's knife.
What is Scream?