Neurological Disorders
Named after a Swiss neurologist, this disorder involves involuntary and often repetitive movements or sounds, often starting in childhood. It can be comorbid with ADHD or OCD.
What is Tourette syndrome?
This is how much the brain weighs.
What is 3 pounds?
This island, located in the Arctic Ocean, is the world’s largest non-continental island.
What is Greenland?
Think Different
Apple
The largest bone in the human body is this.
What is the femur?
This type of aphasia, caused by damage to the brain's language areas, results in difficulty speaking and forming coherent sentences, but patients can often understand spoken language.
What is Broca's aphasia?
This system is involved with learning, memory, emotion, and motivation?
What is the limbic system?
This country has the longest coastline in the world, stretching over 200,000 kilometers.
What is Canada?
Taste the Feeling
Coca-Cola
This classic arcade game has a fruit reward that gives the most points in a single game.
What is Pac-Man?
Patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a type of amnesia, often experience severe memory problems and confusion typically associated with a deficiency in this vitamin?
What is Vitamin B1 (thiamine)?
Connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus collosum?
This European river flows through or along the borders of 10 countries, including Austria, Hungary, and Serbia, before emptying into the Black Sea.
What is Danube River?
Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
M&M's
In this year the first successful polio vaccine was introduced.
What is 1955?
Stiff-Person Syndrome, which causes muscle stiffness and spasms, is a rare autoimmune neurological disorder. It is often misdiagnosed as an anxiety disorder or movement disorder. This neurotransmitter’s dysfunction is involved.
What is GABA?
This brain region, located in the midbrain, is associated with the perception of pain and the release of pain-suppressing chemicals.
What is the periaqueductal gray (PAG)?
This U.S. city, known as the "Mile-High City" due to its elevation, has one of the highest altitudes of any major city in the United States.
What is Denver?
Betcha Can’t Eat Just One
Lay's
This word is used to describe a group of porcupines.
What is a prickle?
A type of brain injury often seen in athletes, this progressive degenerative disease can cause memory loss, aggression, and depression. It has been notably diagnosed in some professional football players.
What is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)?
This small cluster of nuclei in the brainstem is involved in regulating arousal, alertness, and the sleep-wake cycle. It plays a role in the body's response to stress.
What is the reticular formation?
This ancient city, built into red sandstone cliffs, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jordan and was famously featured in an Indiana Jones movie.
What is Petra?
When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best
Hallmark
This body part, unique to each individual like a fingerprint, is sometimes used for identification.
What is the tongue/tongue print?