Brain Structures
Structure Responsible for critical thinking, planning, and judgement.
What is frontal lobe?
What is the pituitary gland?
The stage of life that the brain develop quickest besides the first 10 weeks of life
What is puberty?
What is Jake?
The long terminal that carries messages across a neruon.
What is axon?
Structure responsible for vision.
What is occipital lobe?
What is estrogen and progesterone?
The most essential element for brain development (What you do in your daily life)
What is sleep?
The name of the man who had a rod shot through his head in a work accident, leading to the discovery that the brain has different locations for different functions
Who is Phineas Gage?
The space between neurons where neurotransmitters pass.
What is synapse or synaptic gap?
Structure responsible for long-term memory.
What is hippocampus?
What is fight or flight?
The reason the brain crinkles up.
What is to make space for neural connections?
The state that the documentary "Inside the Teenage Brain" was filmed.
What is Rhode Island?
The fatty covering over the axon.
What is myelin sheath?
The job of the cerebellum.
What is balance and coordination?
The two types of nervous systems.
What are the central and peripheral nervous system?
The name for the stage of brain development within the first 10 weeks of life
What is the primative brain?
The disease that results in the decaying of the myelin sheaths of neurons in the brain, leading to muscular and neurological disorders.
What is Multiple-Sclerosis (MS)?
The neurotransmitter responsible for general mood and happiness.
What is serotonin?
The fluid that surrounds and protects the brain.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
Function of autonomic nervous system.
What is carry out regular processes in the body automatically (example - heartbeat)?
What is 3lbs?
What is an Electroencephalogram (EEG)?
The approximate number of neurons in the brain.
What is 100 billion?