Misc.
The eye
Looking deep inside the brain
The Nervous System
Parts of the Brain
100

Insects use these hormones located outside of the body to help communicate.

What are Pheromones? 
100

These are light sensitive cells located in the retina 

What are Photoreceptors?

100

An imaging technique that results in three- dimensional image of the brain or body, based on its response to magnetic field. 

What is the MRI

100

This nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord.

What is the Central Nervous System

100

What occurs in the pre-frontal cortex?

What is executive functioning?

200

This is responsible for many Illusions due to misjudged length, position, motion and direction. 

What is Perceptual misconception. 

200

What is the correct term for nearsightedness? 

What is Myopia?

200

What does an EEG measure?

What is brain waves?

200

This system is outside of the spinal cord and the brain.

What is the Peripheral Nervous System ( PNS)

200

This area of the brain sits in the back and is responsible for visual processing.

What is the Occipital Lobe

300
This is how to the brain processes information. 

What is bottom up & and top down processing?

300

Rods and cones are 2....

What are photoreceptors? 

300

A computer enhanced x-ray image of the brain or body

What is a CT

300

What two parts does the Peripheral Nervous System break into?

What is the Somatic & Autonomic. 

300

When damaged, your personality will be altered. 

What is the frontal lobe?

400

The tongue has two functions that are important to the process of taste.

What is Papillae & tastebuds. 

400

The correct term for farsightedness

What is Hyperopia?

400

Uses MRI technology to record activity in your brain as you are performing an activity or thinking about something, like lying.

What is an fMRI

400

The state responsible for conserving energy. 

What is the Parasympathetic state. 

400

If you were to have. PET scan while listening to your favorite song, what part of the brain would light up?

What is the Temporal Lobe?

500

A threshold is when the neuron has enough electrical charge that it has an " ahah" moment and then this happens.

What is an Action Potential. 

500

Like a phone, your eye chances in shape to help see far and close images. 

What is Accommodation? 

500

High resolution imaging technique that captures brain activity by attaching radioactive particles to glucose materials. 

What is a PET scan?
500

This is the state responsible for "fight or flight". 

What is the Sympathetic state. 

500

It is within this hemisphere that Language, speech & writing occurs. 

What is the Left Hemisphere

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