Brainrot
This neurotransmitter makes you feel good and is often blamed for “rotting your brain” when you scroll TikTok for 5 hours.
What is Dopamine?
This group represents professors, instructors, and librarians at Dal.
Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA)
True or false: we only use 10% of our brain
False- brain imaging shows we use nearly all parts, just not all at once
These tree-like extensions receive signals from other neurons.
dendrites
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?
9
This bridge lets your left brain do math while your right brain paints frogs in space.
Corpus Callosum
On what date did Dal confirm the DFA lockout, at 9:30 a.m.?
August 20, 2025
True
The left brain is often said to be “logical” and the right brain “creative,” but in reality this structure keeps both sides working together.
corpus callosum
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
footsteps
This neurotransmitter is basically your brain’s “chill pill,” keeping neurons from overfiring like an unhinged group chat.
GABA
Who was the faculty of the day on the dal lockout instagram account on September 3? (hint: A neuro Prof)
Dr.Erin Sparks
True or false: You’re born with all the brain cells you’ll ever have.
False (because of neurogenesis in areas like the hippocampus)
This is the tough outermost membrane protecting your brain
dura mater
I am not alive, but I can grow. I don't have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
fire
This region is your brain’s “social filter,” helping you decide whether to laugh, lie, or leave the party early
Prefrontal Cortex
Before a lockout or strike can legally happen, this process (a government-appointed role) is used to help both sides reach an agreement.
concilitator
The myth that bigger brains equal smarter brains is oversimplified. Intelligence is more strongly linked to this.
Neural connectivity/efficiency of networks
The folded outer surface of the cerebrum is made of ridges called these and grooves called sulci.
gyri
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
the letter "M"
Synaptic pruning and neuroplasticity are essential, but excessive pruning in adolescence is associated with this mental disorder.
schizophrenia
As of the latest reports, this is the result of the lockout — What is the agreement Dalhousie and the DFA came to, thus ending the labour disruption. (for full points exact agreement term is required)
tentative collective bargaining agreement
Brain size is often mistaken for intelligence, but this species has a larger brain-to-body ratio than humans.
dolphin
This part of the brainstem controls automatic functions like breathing and heart rate.
Medulla oblongata
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
breath