The Brain
This lobe of the brain is the largest and is responsible for executive functioning.
What is the frontal lobe?
This type of neuron has two processes that are most often a dendrite and an axon.
What is a bipolar neuron?
This refers to the cell's ability to become another cell type
What is potency?
This is the active ingredient in all tobacco products
What is nicotine?
This neuroscientist established the neuron, or nerve cell, as the basic unit of nervous structure
Who is Santiago Ramon y Cajal?
This thick bundle of nerves connects the left and right side of the brain
What is the corpus callosum?
This ATPase pump maintains the resting membrane potential
What is the Na+/K+ ATPase pump?
The dorsal root ganglion is composed of this type of neurons
What are sensory neurons?
These receptors are specific to sensing pain
What are nociceptors?
This neuroscientist did a lot of research on the neuromuscular junction
Who is Bernard Katz?
What is the thalamus?
This model organism has transparent skin when young and is primarily used to study developmental neurobiology
What are Zebrafish or Danio Rerio?
This germ layer is what turns into the notocord during development
What is the mesoderm?
In humans, this stress hormone is released from the adrenal gland
What is cortisol?
This neuroscientist developed a method of staining tissues, and proposed a continuous, interconnected network model of the nervous system
Who is Camillo Golgi?
This is the outermost layer of the meninges, and is both thick and tough
What is the dura mater?
These types of proteins allow for vesicles in the presynaptic terminal to be released into the synaptic cleft
What are SNARE proteins?
These types of genes control the development of structures within segments e.g. legs or wings
What are homeotic genes?
This disease is due to a loss of neurons in the substantia nigra, which leads to a decrease in dopamine
What is Parkinson's disease?
These scientists were able to record electrically from inside the giant squid axon
Who are Hodgkin and Huxley?
This area helps to understand spoken language?
What is Wernicke's area?
This method allows you to measure the current by changing the voltage
What is voltage-clamp electrophysiology?
In humans, the notocord releases this signaling molecule which helps differentiation of the floor plate of the neural tube
What is sonic hedgehog (shh)?
This axis is one of the primary neuroendocrine responses to stress
What is the HPA axis (hypothalamus, pituitary gland, adrenal cortex)?
These neuroscientists described how light is converted into signals that are sent to the brain and converted into visual impressions
Who are David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel?