People
Who is your (or your child's) teacher?
Isabella!
This lobe is the first part of the brain to receive visual input
What is the occipital lobe?
This motor neurodegenerative disease involves a lack of dopamine being produced from your substantia nigra, causing tremors.
What is Parkinson's disease?
This is the place where two neurons get very close to each other to release chemicals and "talk" to each other
What is a synapse?
His personality completely changed after a railroad spike went through his frontal cortex
Who is Phineas Gage?
All your senses are relayed through here except for your sense of smell
What is the thalamus?
This disease involves plaques of beta-amyloid and tangles of Tau, causing memory loss
What is Alzheimer's disease?
These are the type of receptor in your retina that can sense colored light
What are cones?
He would watch the same movies over and over because he couldn't remember he had seen them before
Who is Patient H.M. (Henry Molaison)?
Damage to what part of the brain would affect your declarative memory (facts and dates)
This disease involves a storm of brain activity (seizures) that can't be stopped, and can sometimes be treated with drugs or by removing the part of the brain where the storm starts
What is epilepsy?
This is the insulating fat layer along an axon that helps signals travel faster
What is myelin?
His amygdala isn't sending fear signals while he climbs El Capitan
Who is Alex Honnold?
The part of your cortex responsible for producing speech (it has a specific name, not just pre-motor or motor cortex!).
What is Broca's area?
This disease is what it is called when part of your brain loses blood supply and is damaged
What is a stroke?
Inside a synapse, neurotransmitters from a signaling neuron bind to these on the next neuron to send the message
What are receptors?
He stimulated parts of the brain to be able to understand their function
Who is Wilder Penfield?
Your brainstem has a few different parts - one is the pons, and the other is this.
What is medulla?
If you had damage to your brain that left you unable to understand speech/language, you have this type of aphasia.
What is Wernicke's aphasia.
The brain doesn't have enough of this neurotransmitter (it starts with an "A") in Alzheimer's disease
What is acetylcholine?