This neurotransmitter affects mood, hunger and sleep and is linked to depression.
What is serotonin
100
This is an amplified recording of the brain's electrical activity that sweep across the brain's surface. It measures the number of electrodes on the scalp.
What is EEG
100
This controls the hunger and thirst levels and other basic needs such as body temperature, and blood chemistry.
What is the hypothalamus
100
This area controls emotions, especially anger and fear.
What is the amygdala
100
This part of the brain is responsible for automatic survival functions.
What is the brainstem
200
This neurotransmitter controls alertness and arousal. It is also linked to depression.
What is norepinephrine
200
This uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer generated images of brain activity that disguises between different types of tissue. Can help show it the brain's structure and possible problems.
What is MRI
200
These lobes control the sense of touch
What are parietal lobes.
200
This connects the two hemispheres, and is how messages pass between them.
What is the corpus callosum
200
This part of the brain controls impulses and decision making.
What are the frontal lobes.
300
This neurotransmitter is linked to movement, learning, attention and emotion. An excess of it can lead to Schizophrenia, while a shortage leads to Parkinson's disease.
What is dopamine
300
This test reveals blood flow and brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans.
What is fMRI or functional MRI
300
These control hearing
What are Temporal lobes
300
This relays messages from the lower brain and cerebral cortex to other parts of the brain. It is sometimes called the brain's sensory switchboard.
What is the thalamus
300
This part of the brain controls voluntary movement and balance
What is the cerebellum.
400
This is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter. An oversupply of it can lead to migraines.
What is Glutamate
400
Visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a task. It detects what part of the brain is being used.
What is PET or position emission tomography scan.
400
This controls the heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla
400
This controls muscles for speech production
What is Broca's area
400
This part of the brain controls judgement. It also the body's ultimate control and information processing center.
What is the cerebral cortex
500
This neurotransmitter is linked to muscle action, memory and acts as messenger between the motor neurons and skeletal muscles.
What is Acetycholine
500
THIS IS NOT A TYPE OF TEST. What is the brain's ability to take over the function of an area that has been injured or removed.
What is plasticity.
500
This controls arousal.
What is the reticular formation.
500
This controls language comprehension and expression
What is Wernicke's area
500
This is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter. An under supply of it is linked to seizures, tremors and insomnia.