This structure is involved in the flight-or-fight response.
What is the amygdala?
100
Everything in memory comes in as this form on input.
What is sensory input?
100
This imaging technique is useful to "see" dense objects such as bones, but not soft tissue such as the brain.
What is the x-ray?
100
The age in years of the maximum number of connections formed.
What is 3-12 years?
100
The number of neurons in the first four months of life.
What is 200 billion neurons?
200
The structure responsible for the body's homeostasis.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
This percentage of irrelevent sensory information is immediately discarded upon entering the brain.
What is 99%?
200
This imaging technique can only be performed once a year because of the radioactive material used; shows an anatomical picture of the area of the brain that is active while performing various tasks.
What is the PET Scan (Positron Emission Tomography)?
200
The trimester when learning begins.
What is the third trimester?
200
These neurons fire through imitation of watching another person do something.
What are mirror neurons?
300
Key to balance, body posture, and coordination of muscle function.
What is the cerebellum?
300
This structure takes sensory information and transfers it to the specific portion of the cortex for further processing.
What is the thalamus?
300
This imaging technique gives a clear and detailed picture of the brain to locate and determine tumors, lesions, and loss of tissue.
What is the CAT Scan (Computerized Axial Tomography)?
300
The time when the brain requires input to make connections.
What is windows of opportunity?
300
Number of neurons in an adult brain.
What is 100 billion?
400
The cerebellum's percentage of the brain's total weight.
What is 11%?
400
As sensory information is sent to the thalamus, it is also sent to this structure to determine the emotional relevance.
What is the amygdala?
400
This technique has better spatial resolution than the CAT Scan and is used in brain research to locate tumors and lesions and identify areas of abnormalities.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
400
These three things create and form a faster network.
What are experience, novelty, and repetition?
400
Clusters of neurons that work together.
What are neural networks?
500
The cells in this network are in charge of regulating basic life-support systems.
What is the reticular formation?
500
Our brains are programmed to attend to these four types of information first.
What is strong emotional content, physical dangers, facial expressions and body language?
500
This brain-imaging technique shows structures of the brain and also neural activity.
What is the fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
500
In the fifth month, half of all neurons die off.
What is apoptosis?
500
The place where neurotransmitters are generated and released.
What is generated in the cell body or axon terminals and released at the synapse?