All about
the Neuron
The Mighty
Brain
Neurological
Disorders
Neuroscience
Methods
Come to
Your Senses
100
What is another name for a "Nerve Cell"?
neuron
100
What is the weight of the adult human brain.
about 3 pounds or 1.4 kilograms
100
Memory loss, dementia, depression, social withdrawal; plaques and tangles are symptoms of _________ ______
Alzheimer’s disease
100
General term for someone who studies the nervous system.
a neuroscientist
100
Another name for the sense of sight
vision
200
The part of the neuron that brings information to the cell body.
A dendrite
200
What are the two main divisions of the nervous system?
the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system
200
Disease characterized as an electrical “brainstorm.”
epilepsy
200
Uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
200
Lobe of the brain important for hearing.
the temporal lobe
300
The part of the neuron that takes information away from the cell body.
the axon
300
What is the area of the brain responsible for thought, language and planning?
the cerebral cortex
300
Excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations are symptoms of __________
narcolepsy
300
Electrical activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain electrodes
EEG (Electroencephalography)
300
Sour, sweet, salty, bitter and umami are the ____ _____ ______
the five basic tastes
400
The junction between two neurons.
a synapse
400
What connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
the corpus callosum
400
Transmitted by ticks; joint pains, chills, fever and headache.
Lyme disease
400
Scanning method that detects radioactive material that is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain.
PET (Positron Emission Tomography)
400
Free nerve endings, Pacinian corpuscles, Ruffini endings are what?
sensory receptors in the skin
500
The explosion of electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends information.
an action potential
500
Name of the man who survived after an iron rod went through the frontal lobe of his brain in 1848.
Phineas Gage
500
Weakness, paralysis, death of neurons in the motor cortex and spinal cord; named for a famous baseball player
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
500
Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.
CT scan (Computed Tomography Scan)
500
Location of photoreceptors in the eye.
the retina
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