History
After an accident in which an explosion sent a railway spike through his skull, damaging much of his frontal lobe, this man (though he miraculously survived) had a severely altered personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
In the 2014 film Lucy, it is falsely claimed that humans use this % of our brain
What is 10%?
The grooves of the brain are called these.
What are sulci?
Patients with multiple sclerosis have a broad range of symptoms because of a loss of what crucial component of neural communication?
What is myelin?
PET (positron emission tomography) scans can help to identify brain tumours by recording signals after injection of this radioactive-labelled substance.
What is glucose?
Patient H.M. is a famous case study because surgeons removed this brain structure from him.
What is the hippocampus?
in Pixar’s Inside Out, a team of neuroscientists were consulted to make sure the film accurately depicted these five emotions.
What is joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust?
Drinking alcohol can cause you to lose your balance mainly because it acts on this structure that is crucial to coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
Individuals with this condition have difficulty forming words even though they can understand what they read or what others say to them.
What is Broca’s Aphasia?
What fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) directly records.
What is blood flow/ oxygenation?
Dr. Walter Freeman was famous for popularizing the lobotomy using this instrument.
What is an ice pick?
In A Beautiful Mind (2001) mathematician and Nobel laureate John Nash was temporarily banned from teaching because he had this.
Considered the fifth lobe of the brain, this structure is hidden deep within the lateral fissure.
What is the the insular lobe?
A person with this disorder may experience one sense (e.g. sound) but interpret it as another (e.g. light).
What is Synesthesia?
EEG is the acronym for this brain activity-recording technique.
What is electroencephalogram?
Once described as the “greatest living Canadian”, this neurosurgeon famously mapped out the human motor cortex.
Who is Wilder Penfield?
In Awakenings (1990), neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (played by Robin Williams) seemed to cure his mysteriously catatonic patients of this.
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
Known for functioning like a relay station, this brain area can also be the focal point for certain kinds of seizures.
Thalamus
This prion disease was found among people in New Guinea and can cause tremors and excessive laughing.
What is Kuru?
This technique allows neuroscientists to selectively switch neurons on and off using light.
What is optogenetics?
In the 1950s, this town in Saskatchewan was the home to some of the most important psychedelic research in the world.
What is Weyburn, SK?
In this 1985 book, Dr. Oliver Sacks describes his encounter with a patient who has visual agnosia (inability to recognize objects).
What is The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat?
The main input region to the hippocampus, this structure is named after its notched or tooth-like appearance.
What is the dentate gyrus?
Patients recovering from this condition may cry when they see tasty food because the nerves that normally innervate their salivary glands have mistakenly rewired to their lacrimal glands.
Bell’s Palsy (facial nerve palsy)
This patch clamp technique is especially used for detecting neurotransmitter release and may be used to investigate which neurotransmitters are released by a particular synapse.
Sniffer-patch