Basic Neuroscience
The command center of the body; responsible for coordinating muscle movements, controlling thoughts and other essential functions
What is the brain?
The part of the brain responsible for processing visual stimuli
What is the occipital lobe?
[True or False]
The Neuroscience Club has an instagram that you are following!!
True
the study of the effects of mental factors on an athlete's performance and the impacts on their well-being
what is sports psychology?
comprises approximately 60% of the brain
what is fat?
The two types of brain matter
What is grey and white?
The type of matter primarily responsible for processing information, controlling movement, and thinking
What is grey matter?
a cognitive system that temporarily holds a limited amount of information
What is working memory?
a mild traumatic brain injury as a result of the brain twisting/shaking within the skull that is common within athletes
What is a concussion?
damage to this part of the body's receptors results in a lack of feeling pain
What are nocireceptors?
Name the Inside Out characters (5) responsible for expressing emotions
Who are...
Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger?
the part of the brain responsible for regulating homeostasis
What is the hypothalamus?
the process of arranging information in a given order and then remembering the information in a different order
What is reordering?
Who is Simone Biles?
the weight of an average adult brain
What is 3 pounds?
The set of the nervous system including the brain and spinal cord
What is the CNS (Central Nervous System)?
What is cerebellar agenesis?
the part of working memory responsible for organizing tasks, directing information and determining focus (serves as a boss/manager)
What is the central executive?
a common medical profession that is commonly misunderstood as equating to sports psychology
What is physical therapy?
during REM sleep, the brain undergoes this movement to allowing the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to wash away waste
what is shrinking?
The part of the brain primarily responsible for processing sensory information (external stimulus)
What is the parietal lobe?
language disorder, typically caused by brain trauma, that impairs speaking, reading, writing and understanding
What is aphasia?
The creator of the working memory model that proposes four main components responsible for coordinating the system
Who is Baddeley?
What is cortisol?
the age in which the average brain's cognitive abilities begin to decline
what is approx. 25-30?