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This is the college student superpower that allows someone to survive on 4 hours of sleep, caffeine and pure panic
What is finals week?
This organ pumps blood throughout the human body
What is the heart?
A fast, all‑or‑nothing depolarization caused by opening voltage‑gated Na⁺ channels, followed by repolarization via K⁺ channels that propagates along axons to transmit information and trigger physiological responses
What is an action potential?
This is a neurodevelopmental condition defined by differences in social communication, behavior, and sensory processing, beginning in early childhood and lasting throughout life
What is autism?
This is the date of our next General Meeting
What is Tuesday (11/03) | 8-9 pm (SSC 123- MPR 2)
If you have 10 cookies and take away 3, how many cookies do you have?
What is 3? (You took 3, so you have 3)
Adding a common mineral used in cooking makes water boil faster
What is salt?
This is the collective name given to cells in the nervous system which are not neurons, and work to support, protect, and maintain neurons.
What are glia (glial cells)?
A sudden burst of abnormal activity where neurons fire rapidly and uncontrollably in the brain
What is a seizure?
These two Neuroscience Club members serve as Event Coordinators.
Who are Zaal and Alekhya?
This is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise when viewed from above its north pole
What is Venus?
This gas is taken in by plants during photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
This refers to the gap between neurons where signal transmission relies on the release and binding of various neurotransmitters
What is a synapse?
This is a brain disorder where neurons that make dopamine slowly die causing movement to become shaky, slow, or stiff.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
These two Neuroscience Club board members are both second-year students and Neuroscience majors.
Who are Daniel and Zaal?
How many months have 28 days?
What is 12?
This molecule carries amino acids to the ribosome during protein synthesis
What is tRNA?
This is the name of the often-tested reflex which causes your knee to automatically kick up when something hits the tendon in your knee
What is the patellar reflex?
A chronic brain disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and perceives reality causing episodes of psychosis along with long‑term changes in thinking, emotions, and behavior
What is schizophrenia?
These two Neuroscience Club Board members or interns are both majoring in Biology.
Who are Annie and Taha?
An English zoologist and neurophysiologist who discovered the squid giant axon.
Who was Johnathon (J.Z) Young?
During which stage of meiosis does crossing over occur?
What is prophase I?
This is the phenomenon which explains why extremely hot objects can feel cold when you first touch them.
What is paradoxical cold?
A progressive neurodegenerative disease that destroys the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord causing weakness, paralysis, and difficulty speaking.
What is ALS?
This is the total number of board members and interns in the Neuroscience Club this year.
What is 10?