The Central Nervous System
The location of the Frontal lobe.
What is the front (anterior or rostral) of the brain?
Neurons signal through these two ways.
What are electrical and chemical signals?
The language production area of the brain.
What is Brocca's area?
The five senses.
What are smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing?
True or False: Increased age is correlated with increased neurodegeneration.
What is true?
These two structures make up the Central nervous system.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
The immune cells of the nervous system.
What are microglia?
Phineas Gage damaged this brain area causing impaired behavioral inhibition.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Conscious perceptions are done in this lobe.
What is the Frontal lobe?
This is the number one symptom of neurodegerneation.
What is dementia?
The names of the four lobes of the brain.
What are Frontal, Occipital, Parietal, and Temporal?
The name for when neuronal cells have fatty wrappings along their axons to increase the speed of action potentials.
What is myelination?
fMRI stands for this.
What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
These are the hot and cold flavors.
What are spicy and minty?
The two most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases.
What are Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease?
The central sulcus separates these two cortices.
Any five parts of a neuron.
What are axons, dendrites, soma/cell body/perikaryon, terminal button, node of ranvier, myelin, ect...?
When people can't recognize the faces of others, even the faces of loved ones.
What is prosopagnosia?
The scientific names for the neural cortexes for the five senses.
What are ocular, olfactory, somatosensory, auditory, and gustatory?
These regions in the brain enlarge during neurodegeneration.
What are the ventricles?
This is the plural of the emotion structure of the brain.
What are amygdalae?
The types of glia.
What are oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, microglia, and astrocytes?
Professor Sheralee Tershner (the professor for Cognitive neuroscience) does not believe in this concept and that people just do behaviors.
What are personalities?
A delta and C fibers are for this sensation while A beat fibers are for this sensation.
What are pain and touch?
This cognitive syndrome produced by an extra chromosome 21 is highly associated with late life Alzheimer's disease.
What is Down's syndrome?