Anatomy
This is the outermost layer of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking?
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
The function of memory is in large part controlled by this region.
Hippocampus
The progressive degenerative brain disorder characterized by memory loss, cognitive decline, and behavioral changes?
What is Alzheimer's disease?
The term for the process by which nerve cells are produced and mature in the brain?
Neurogenesis
The name of the condition associated with damage to the brain region discovered by Paul Broca, resulting in difficulty in producing spoken language?
What is Broca's aphasia
The name of the largest bundle of myelinated nerves that connects the brain's two hemispheres?
What is the corpus callosum?
All sensory information, except this one, travels through the Thalamus.
What is the sense of smell?
Name of the movement disorder characterized by involuntary, rapid, jerky movements, and often includes vocal tics.
What is Tourette syndrome?
The term for the complex process by which the brain rewires itself in response to learning, experience, and environmental factors?
Neuroplasticity
The technique developed by Camillo Golgi that allowed for the staining and visualization of individual neurons in the brain.
Golgi staining (or Golgi method)
This area of the human eye results in a blind spot, as no photoreceptors can be present.
What is the optic nerve?
This is your body's ability to sense movement, action, and location
What is Proprioception?
This neurological condition results from an excessive and abnormal firing of neurons in the brain, leading to seizures.
What is epilepsy?
The name of the fatty substance that insulates axons and helps increase the speed of electrical signals in the nervous system?
Myelin
This Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist is famous for developing the psychoanalytic theory of the mind, which emphasized the role of the unconscious (and probably had mommy issues).
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The layer between the brain and skull
What are Meninges?
This brain region plays a critical role in the production of dopamine
What is the Substantia Nigra?
The name of the neurodegenerative disorder that affects movement control and is often associated with tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia?
What is Parkinson's disease?
In the embryonic development of the brain, this primary structure forms from the neural tube and eventually develops into the brain and spinal cord?
Central nervous system (CNS)
These neurons, discovered in the 1990s, are thought to play a role in empathy, imitation, and understanding the actions of others.
Mirror neurons
In a sagittal cut this brain region is dorsal to the hypothalamus, but ventral to the corpus callosum.
What is the thalamus?
This brain structure that plays a crucial role in production of melatonin?
What is the Pineal Gland
This autoimmune disorder affects the central nervous system and results in the demyelination of nerve cells.
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
This critical period of brain development is characterized by heightened neural plasticity and sensitivity to environmental input.
Sensitive period (or critical period)
This patient, known by his initials, had his medial temporal lobes, including the hippocampus, removed in 1953, resulting in severe amnesia.
Who is H.M